Ep. 263: How To Stop Spending Yourself on Everything
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Ep. 263: How To Stop Spending Yourself on Everything

B1IntermediateJuly 23, 202632 min

Send us Fan Mail Last week, I asked you to consider something. And judging from the messages and the emails that flooded in, it hit home for a lot of you. I asked you to consider this: What if you've been trying to solve the wrong problem all along? Not a productivity problem. Not a motivation problem. Not even a time problem. A capacity problem. And so many of you wrote back and said some version of the same thing. "Jennifer, I finally understand why...

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I introduced the concept of, I think it's probably pretty likely since I work so closely with women and have for 10 years and I'm also a woman myself.

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And again, so many people wrote in and said some version of the same thing.

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Well, last week, I asked you to consider something. And judging from the messages and the emails that I got in response, it's a message that resonated with a lot of women. And so in that conversation, it took place last week Thursday.

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In that conversation, I asked you to consider this. What if you have been trying to solve the wrong problem all along? I challenged you to think about maybe it's not a productivity problem, Maybe you don't have a motivation problem. Maybe you don't even have a time problem.

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I introduced the concept of, I think it's probably pretty likely since I work so closely with women and have for 10 years and I'm also a woman myself. I would venture that I'm fairly accurate in saying it's a capacity problem. And again, so many people wrote in and said some version of the same thing. oh my gosh, I finally understand what it is that I'm feeling. But then almost every single email

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