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I was at a dinner party when someone asked me to give an impromptu speech and I froze. A friend pulled me aside afterwards and told me that my fear of public speaking was obvious, but what was also obvious was that I had a lot to say. H...
I catch myself doing this every day after work and I'm not really sure why I continue to do it.
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I was stuck in a dead end job and felt like I was going nowhere, until my boss told me to just focus on solving one problem at a time. This sounds obvious, but for some reason it really hit me - I had been trying to tackle everything at ...
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I used to think that my lack of natural talent was what prevented me from advancing in my career, but it wasn't until I had a conversation with a colleague who had been in the industry for years that I realized my biggest obstacle was actually my own f...
I was struggling to find direction in my job when a colleague told me to just focus on solving one problem at a time. This sounds obvious now, but at the time it was a revelation. I had been trying to tackle every issue simultaneously an...
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I catch myself scrolling through work emails during my free time and then mindlessly checking social media when I'm supposed to be working.
I was struggling to find direction in my job when a colleague told me to just focus on solving one problem at a time. This sounds obvious now, but at the time it was a revelation - I had been trying to tackle every issue simultaneously and getting nowhere....
BODY: I was at a conference last year and I struck up a conversation with a woman who was about to give a keynote speech. She was visibly nervous and I asked her how she dealt with it. She told me she still gets nervous before every spe...
I was stuck in a dead-end job for years, feeling like I needed my boss's approval to take on new projects or pursue a promotion. But everything changed when I had a conversation with a colleague who had recently been promoted, and she told me sh...
I was sitting next to a guy who did the same kind of work I did and I was complaining about my job, he told me I was thinking about my career all wrong. He said I was so focused on climbing the corporate ladder that I had forg...
I was struggling to find direction in my job until a colleague told me to just focus on solving one problem at a time. This conversation happened during a particularly chaotic project meeting where I was feeling overwhelmed by all the ta...
I was in a meeting with a potential client and I caught myself using a phrase I'd heard a colleague say, it sounded slick but it wasn't mine. Something about it felt off, like I was wearing someone else's clothes. After that meeting I made a conscious decisi...
I was struggling to find direction in my job until my boss told me to just focus on making my coworkers' lives easier. This conversation happened during a particularly chaotic project meeting where I was feeling overwhelmed and useless. ...