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Hi reader,

“That’s what you’re supposed to do” is one of the most powerful phrases

It establishes our paths, our lives, and, often times, our happiness

Because what we are supposed to do becomes our operating system

The default language we use in our daily decisions

Our basis of being

If you believe success is having a certain status, then that drives your choices

If you think your car reflects your prosperity, then you will act accordingly

If you don’t think people like you are meant to have financial security, then you will confirm that truth

To paraphrase Seth Godin, culture is “we do things this way.”

Our internalized culture is our external compass 🧭

Your career will thank you.

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The quiet part is that outside circumstances will not change your internal voice

Achieving certain status will not make you feel more secure, as you will then become focused on not losing it

Your brand new car inevitably will get old, and then you may start to feel obsolete with it

You may keep putting yourself down a financial peg no matter the circumstances, as your identity is tied to that particular bracket

In the fantastic book The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks calls this an “upper limit problem”

Like a psychological thermometer, you will conform your life to the proverbial temperature of beliefs

When unchecked, that inner voice will tell you to keep digging when circumstances show you should stop

To burn bridges that you clearly see you need to cross

And to build alliances you logically see will end in disaster

Life taught us all our own individual “That’s what you’re supposed to do”

It is how we survived circumstances this far

But that was then

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