People say it all the time. “You have to do the work.”“He’s not doing the work.”“I’ve been doing so much work on myself.” But what is the work? What does it actually mean? I don’t think this is very clear. At least, it wasn’t clear to me.

“Where do you see yourself in five years?” Every time I used to hear that question, I’d cringe. It felt like a trap. How was I supposed to predict the exact shape of my life in five years when I was still figuring things out today? As a coach, I now realize I wasn’t alone in this.

As a career coach, I now see so many talented professionals stuck in the same loop—working themselves to exhaustion, personalizing their str

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