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:

I hereby grant myself complete and unlimited permission to:
In order to:
Specifically, I have permission to feel:
I have permission to be:
Specifically I have permission to push when:
I have permission to rest when:
I have permission to start:
I have permission to try:
I have permission to stop:
I have permission to let go:
Giving myself full permission and wholeheartedly believing in myself is important right now because:
I trust myself to:

📘 Books Mentioned:

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

Melody on the web | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram
Video: Celebrating one year of Trust Yourself
Articles: Medium Article on Trust Yourself, Forbes on Being an Overfunctioner at Work

Related Podcast Episodes:

❤️ Enjoying the show? I'd be grateful for a rating and/or review! Even better? Share this episode with a friend :)

💌 Get my curated weekly(ish) PivotList newsletter

💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Pivot listener survey

🗣 Submit a question or comment for future episodes

🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to ‘casts

📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/282

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabe Alarid - Focusing on Consistency and Accountability in Real Estate Success