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You can’t think your way out of stress

CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?! 🫢 Oh sorry, that was just my brain having a stress temper tantrum. ‘What about THIS thing that happened? HUH?! WHAT ABOUT IT?!?’ ‘Oh, and what about this OTHER thing that might happen?!??’ 💥POOF concentration GONE. Thanks a lot, stress! Don’t carry stress around! I can’t focus when I’m stressed. Not as in ‘it’s hard to focus when I’m stressed’. As in I literally CANNOT physically focus my brain when I’m stressed. And neither can you. You can’t think your way out of stress. Because focus and stress CANNOT physically exist together. And if you’re wondering why things are off, feel stagnant or are moving in the wrong direction, part of the culprit is probably thinking you are managing […]

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Should you quit if you don’t get a promotion?

Should you quit over a promotion? “If I don’t get senior manager this year, I am DONE with this company!” Well that settles THAT! Her mind was made up. Which meant she (felt she) had no viable option except to quit over a promotion. Dana’s first DM pretty much summed it up. “I don’t know what to do because I’ve done everything and nothing is working, but I’m serious. If I don’t get senior manager this year, I am DONE with this company! Can you help me?” That first DM was a bundle of tells. 6 dead ends, 1 door. Absolutes are a dead end. Curiosity is an open door. Should you quit over a promotion? 🛑FULL STOP This is a dangerous question that NO