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There’s a kind of success that runs on toxic fuel.
It’s powered by hustle, overwork, perfectionism, and the relentless drive to prove yourself. It gets results, titles, money, recognition, but it quietly burns through your reserves.
I see it all the time: brilliant, high-achieving people whose lives look incredible on paper… but behind the scenes, they’re running on fumes. Exhausted. Disconnected. Caught in a loop of doing more, trying harder, giving everything, while slowly sacrificing their health, their joy, their relationships, and their peace of mind.
That’s what happens when your career runs on toxic coal.
But there’s another way.
You can grow your income, expand your impact, and rise into higher-level roles, without the burnout, grind, and chronic pressure.
You can succeed with ease, presence, and sustainability.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll share exactly how.
We’ll start with the first practice:
Aligning with your superpowers.
Your superpowers aren’t just what you’re good at, they’re what give you energy. They’re the skills and ways of being that come so naturally to you, you barely notice them. The things no one had to teach you (I call these the skills you got for free!). The qualities that feel like you being you at your best.
If I dropped you into a team with no job description, you’d start doing these things instinctively. You can’t not do them.
When your role draws on your superpowers, you stop grinding and start gliding. Work begins to feel like flow. You’re energized. Pulled forward by purpose, not just pushing from pressure.
This is what I call renewable energy for your career.
When you’re in alignment, your work fuels you.
When you’re out of alignment, it drains you, and that’s when burnout creeps in.
It’s not always about doing too much. It’s about doing too much of the wrong things, things that don’t match how you’re built to thrive.
When your role needs what you most naturally bring, success doesn’t feel like climbing. It feels like being pulled forward by purpose. You gain energy instead of losing it. Work starts to feel like play. Like alignment. Like fun.
So here are your reflection prompts:
Where are you flying with the wind right now? And where are you flying against it?
Does your work call upon the very best of you? (Thanks, Marcus Buckingham, for this great question!). If not, what parts of your job would you need to grow (and which parts need to shrink) to answer yes to this question?
Can you name your TOP 5 MOST FAVORITE SKILLS? The ones you love using and go to naturally, often without even knowing what you’re doing?
➡️ If you can’t, check out this
One Simple Exercise for Discovering Your Superpowers.
You wouldn’t run a high-performance engine on cheap, toxic fuel, so don’t do that to yourself.
Know what energizes you and move toward that.
