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A Suit and Tie, a Librarian, and a Door (opens the original)
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I saw a story circulating on social media this week. I have no idea if it’s true, and honestly, it doesn’t matter, because it captures something I’ve coached job seekers and career navigators through for decades.A man lost his job in January and couldn’t bring himself to tell his family. For 3 months, he got dressed every morning, left the house at his usual time, and spent his days at the public library, quietly applying for jobs in a suit and tie.A librarian noticed. She never asked a single q
The Structure Is the Part That Isn't Working (opens the original)
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I came across a line recently that stopped me cold: “The structure is the part that isn’t working.” Eight words, and somehow they said almost everything I’ve spent decades watching play out in organizations, boardrooms, and burned-out clients who kept quietly blaming themselves for a system that was never built to hold them in the first place.We love to diagnose toxic workplaces at the level of the individual. The bad boss. The difficult coworker. The person who “just can’t handle pressure.” But
Go Inside: The Transformative Power of Celebration, Reflection, and Self-Acknowledgment (opens the original)
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We are trained, almost from birth, to look outward for the verdict on how we’re doing. The grade. The promotion. The metrics. The “good job” from someone whose opinion we’ve decided matters more than our own. And somewhere in all that outward-looking, most of us never learned the actual skill that makes any of it sustainable: how to go inside and acknowledge ourselves.Not performatively. Not as a hollow affirmation in the mirror. I mean the real, felt experience of celebration, reflection, and s
Book Review: "You Can Just Do Things" From a Different POV (opens the original)
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On Cate Hall’s radical permission, and the Parts of us that need to hear it too.I recently came across a book called “You Can Just Do Things” by Cate Hall, written with Sasha Chapin. The title is what pulled me in. What kept me there was the concept underneath it: High Agency.Hall’s central argument, in my own words, is this: most of us were taught that success comes from careful planning, paying your dues, and earning one promotion at a time. But there are always a handful o
It's Not a Mindset Problem. It's a Parts Problem. (opens the original)
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On procrastination, failure to start, and why no productivity hack was ever going to fix what’s actually going on underneath.Today we dive into a common roadblock on the path of habit change: procrastination and resistance. Even with the best of intentions, we all face moments when our motivation wanes and avoidance takes over.You know the moment. The project sits untouched for the fourth day in a row. The email stays in drafts. The dream you’ve talked about for years stays exactly that… a dream
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