Self-Awareness
Shadow Work
Work & Finance

Illuminate Your Career Shadow

Uncover the hidden obstacles inside your working life.

Working life produces a lot of material we decline to examine. Envy of a colleague, resentment of a boss, ambition we call something more respectable. This looks at the part of your career you have decided not to think about.

1. What are you dissatisfied with at work that you have stopped mentioning? 

You stopped for a reason. Because it seemed ungrateful, because it seemed unfixable, or because nobody responded the first three times.

2. Whose success at work bothered you most? 

Name them and the promotion, the client, the praise. Then write what you told yourself about why they got it.

3. How do you behave around the person with power over you? 

Deferential, combative, invisible, charming. Ask whether the pattern predates this job by about thirty years.

4. What do you keep out of the building? 

A skill, an opinion, a part of your personality, an ambition. What do you believe would happen if it came in with you?

5. What is one piece of it you could bring in this month? 

Not a declaration. One meeting, one opinion said out loud, one thing you stop pretending not to know.

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