What Feels Good vs. What Is Good…

When people ask how to make Energy Pennies, I often find myself saying something along the lines of, “pay attention to what feels good” when we’re deciding what should be an energy penny for us. And someone challenged me on that this week, as we were discussing what would bring energy pennies for burnout. If…

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QuitCast Episode 5.14: What Are Strengths?

SHOW NOTES If you haven’t been here since 1.01 (or you haven’t watched every video of all seasons of the Quitcast), you might be wondering about some of the words we throw around. Welcome to the Quitcast Primers series, where we do short videos describing the concepts that can sometimes become “insider language” when we…

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This will be controversial

This will be controversial. Not apologizing. If you feel yourself getting scared of what might happen in the future of publishing, please close the browser, take three deep breaths, and open the manuscript. (Do all three of those things. Every. Single. Time you feel the fear come up.) Don’t let fear rule your day. And…

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Nothing stays the same.

Nothing stays the same. I know a lot of us struggle with adaptation to change, and as I’m going through burnout recovery and having to square with some of the pain of “I can’t just go back to the way it was,” I remember how much I hate out-of-my-control change. This burnout has kicked my…

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