HeyJaredOne Thing For Your Week
A weekly “one thing” to support your wellbeing and wholeness, plus essays on identity, growth, and designing a life that fits.
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One Thing: Follow the Energy (opens the original)
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Hi friends,Last week, we explored how alignment may begin with broad direction: toward this or away from that. To calibrate your compass more precisely, you need more information.One valuable source is your energy.Notice how you feel after a meeting, activity, or interaction. Do you leave with more energy, less, or about the same? While one entry tells you very little, repeated patterns can reveal which kinds of work, people, and environments move you toward greater alignment.I first used an ene
One Thing: Compass (opens the original)
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Hi friends,Last week, I invited you to notice your felt sense of alignment. Those signals help calibrate your compass.This metaphor comes from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans. A compass doesn’t prescribe a path or reveal the final destination. It simply helps you recognize whether you’re moving in the right direction.At first, your compass might offer only broad guidance. This was true for me at the end of my corporate career. I didn’t know that coaching was where I was headed,
One Thing: Alignment (opens the original)
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Hi friends,For most of my fundraising career, I had a quiet sense that something was off. It was hard to name, since there was nothing clearly wrong with my job or what I was doing. Yet it never felt fully right, either.When I pivoted to consulting, this signal started getting louder. Persistent dread, a routine knot in my stomach, resistance in my body to getting out of bed in the morning.What I was craving in those moments was a felt sense of alignment. A deep, calm knowing that your work and
One Thing: Fresh Start (opens the original)
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Hi friends,Happy September. It’s so good to be back!This is my favorite time of year. I’ve felt a lot of back to school energy this week as I emerged from a slower August. This energy feels like more than just a seasonal buzz, it’s a signal of alignment that I want to revisit here soon.For now, the other thing I’m noticing is the fresh start effect. This is the familiar surge in motivation to start a habit or make a change that comes around on New Year’s, your birthday, and back to school.Fresh
One Thing: Rest (opens the original)
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Hi friends,I think, talk, and write a lot about rest and recovery. Most of us treat it as one thing (sleep, or a vacation), but it actually lives on more than one timescale.Here’s how I think about it:Micro (seconds to minutes): keeps your nervous system regulated in the momentDaily (hours): restores your body and brain, often overnightRhythmic (a day or two): reconnects you to yourselfSeasonal (a week or more): creates enough distance to see new perspectivesSometimes rest is reactive. You’re fo
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