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Career Clarity Blog: Insights for thoughtful, midcareer professionals
Short reads to help you think clearly, make grounded decisions, and move forward with confidence.
Each post offers a moment of clarity — a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters.
5 Daily Practices to Clear Your Mind of Mental Clutter
If traditional meditation, exercise and sleep don't do it, let's try these five daily practices that rely on your mental superpowers to clear mental clutter. Remove mental clutter, and allow space for what you really want.
Hard Truth: We Created the Imposter
Everyone experiences Imposter feelings. These feelings reveal our relationship with ourselves and serve as a signal when we’re evolving into our next level. To work through Imposter feelings, recognizing them and taking action are the easiest steps to overcome them.
Inside the Lab: Creating the Ultimate Future Podcast
I’ve been asked for years, "Jessica, when are you going to create a podcast?" The time is now! Read my journey from taking a big idea into reality. You’re invited inside my lab to see the real process behind my creative process.
5 Practices to Confidently Start Living Your “Personal Best” Life
Self-betterment is part of our human nature. If wanting personal change is rooted in our survival, why do so many of us struggle with making a change? If you’re a lifelong learner seeking ways to future-proof, up level or find a higher gear, start here. Learn five practices that take you from “I don’t know how to change” to “I’ve got this!”
Which Voice Wins in your Head? Disrupt the Inner Critic
Spend too much time in harsh, negative self-talk in your head? Disrupt it! By understanding these two sides, you’ll develop the habit to disrupt the critic consistently for better peace of mind. Read this simple experiment.
Turn False Starts into Flow, According to an Achiever
Over 60% of projects fail, and most often begin with false starts. If you’re struggling with getting your groove back after setbacks, there's hop. Here are four insights from an Achiever and former senior program manager.
Goodbye SMART goals: Simplify your goal setting in 3 easy steps
Setting goals for many of us isn’t motivating. It’s cumbersome. It’s frustrating when goals continue to face roadblocks after several attempts. Say goodbye to traditional goal setting and learn to create powerful intentions. Speed up achieving powerful results in three easy steps.
10 Ideas to Begin Now to Bounce Back Better This Year
If you’re ready for a better career, a better life, better growth, then these 10 ideas for bouncing back better will help you clear the mental clutter holding you back. Build your personal resilience with these ideas. We always face obstacles in life, resilience is how well we bounce back from them.
7 Common Phrases People Say When They Don’t Love What They Do
Words are powerful and can reveal what we think and believe. Group speak can happen when you and your colleagues fall into old habits. Jessica shares some ideas for how to break the pattern and say what you really mean instead.
10 Lessons I’ve Learned in Living the Life I Want
Reflecting on her 10th anniversary of writing the book, Finding Passion, Jessica looks back on her journey to rediscovering herself, overcoming burnout and high achieving into the purpose-driven life she lives now. Here’s 10 lessons to her younger self.
Want to Unlock Your Potential? Start Here
To begin unlocking your potential, a number of characteristics must be present to begin the process of personal change and to make that change last. Explore the characteristics that help unlock your potential with ease.
Imposter Syndrome: 4 Hidden Benefits for Authentic Leaders
Many professionals experience Imposter Syndrome across their career. Starting a new role, being an expert, or facing a new challenge are inflection points. For Authentic Leaders, imposter-like feelings come with hidden benefits. Each benefit helps the leader course-correct, bringing alignment to unlock their potential.
Break Free from “Should”: How One Key Question Clarifies Career Change
Corporate culture influences professionals when designing, growing and changing careers. This influence creates a pull of what we “should” do keeping us choosing similar roles. Across our careers, we realize we had a career by chance, not by choice. To break the pattern of what you “should” do, Career Coach Jessica Manca offers one key question to help you choose a new path forward.
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