Believe it or not, your emotions are a competitive advantage: 90 percent of top performers are also high in emotional intelligence, and 92 percent of executives rate soft skills like the ability to manage emotions as a critical priority in today’s business environment.
That said, if you relate to the idea of being a Sensitive Striver, you may still be suffering from what Melody Wilding calls The Honor Roll Hangover—a tricky trifecta of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and overfunctioning. Listen in to this conversation for the antidote.
More About Melody: Melody Wilding, LMSW is an executive coach, human behavior expert, and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She is a human behavior expert and executive coach and teaches graduate-level human behavior and psychology at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York.
🌟 3 Key Takeaways:
- Leave margin in your life for serendipity and fluctuations. Don’t be afraid to book yourself to only 80% capacity.
- Protect your time and energy by protecting your calendar. Sensitive strivers need the time to switch gears between activities.
- Trusting yourself is the antidote to perfectionism, overfunctioning, and people-pleasing. Depend on your intuition more.
📝 Melody’s Permission List:
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I hereby grant myself complete and unlimited permission to:
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Specifically, I have permission to feel:
- I have permission to be:
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Specifically I have permission to push when:
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I have permission to rest when:
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I have permission to start:
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I have permission to try:
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I have permission to stop:
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I have permission to let go:
- Giving myself full permission and wholeheartedly believing in myself is important right now because:
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I trust myself to:
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