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Martha Randolph Carr
Martha's Big Adventure - The Good News
Martha Randolph Carr 7/17/2008
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Martha’s Big Adventure – The Good News

By Martha Randolph Carr

The good news is the spiritual and emotional muscles we’ve all been so expertly honing on how to deal with the failures in life are exactly the muscles we’ll need for the times we succeed. The bad news is I thought it would be much easier. It has come to my attention that success doesn’t actually play out like it’s portrayed in the movies. The typical plot line left me with the impression that once someone got past a tipping point of sorts things magically fell into place and staying successful was all about relaxing into it. There appeared to be a wisdom that just seeped through the skin of people who managed to pull off going from dreaming into creation. It seemed that the coveted knowledge gave them the ability to worry less and do more. I really wanted some of that and I was under the impression I was getting closer to finally understanding what Rockefeller or Trump have figured out. I was, but as usual it was not what I expected.

It has been a very fortunate year for me. Projects I’ve been working on for years have not only taken root, they’ve blossomed. Dreams I held as a child have come true and I’ve gotten a chance to see what it’s like to succeed at something. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the
loftier view is just as precarious. But this landscape is also less familiar than losing out and having to start over. It’s more like looking at life through a bug-eye lens. Everything looks familiar but something’s a little different here. That’s added a certain amount of queasiness.

My unease was so great I sought out a few people who are on the fast track of their dreams and asked them if they were finding the same strange reality. I wanted to know if I had taken a wrong turn and was so clueless I didn’t know things weren’t going exactly right. Maybe I had reached the purgatory part of success. Not quite failure, not quite success.

They seemed relieved that someone else was voicing the same concerns. It turned out that to a person, they had hit a place where they wondered if they were up to the challenge in front of them and had no idea what to do next beyond the small step presented to them. Anthony Luciano, who makes custom handbags and accessories under his own label that start at the price of a used car was one of the most serene of the bunch. Even in the face of a possible economic meltdown among the crowd that can afford what are more like mobile one-of-a-kind works of art that can also hold your cell phone, he is content to hang out in the day he has been given.

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Posted By: Jennifer Gerstenberger  on Thursday, July 17, 2008

Thanks, Martha, for the reminder to view the world with wonder. I'm ready to take my risks!

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