Thank God it's December! 🌈

Quitting measuring took me a year!

2024 was the year I decided to make a bold move and take my hands off the wheel for all work decisions. Think of it as professional improv - no script, no agenda, just pure professional chaos.

After 3 years of manifestations focused on goals, I wanted to see what would happen if I didn't do anything.

Because I was fatigued, my fascination with the Taoist concept of Wu Wei (aka effortless action) felt timely. Could I play with Zen & the art of career?

So, in Jan 2024, I dropped all goals and committed to only responding to what came my way and testing my "zero gravity" theory.

Cue dramatic music: I said goodbye to revenue tracking, agenda optimization, and bonjour to unplanning panics and budget dizziness.

I quickly realized that my faith, more than my finances, was tested, so I kept a Post-it nearby with Rumi's quote: "The universe is rigged in your favor".

The biggest hurdle was to get past the thought of tracking my progress; I had tracked everything, all the time, all my life - from grades to pieces of chocolate to even using an app to track my app checking.

If I stopped measuring, how would I know where I was?

If I gave up participating in the ultimate NYC compare game, would anyone want to play with me if I was not quantifiable?

By March, I was a mess.
I had missed reading the warning sign, "Please don't try this at home," so I reached out to a coach skilled at soul journeys for the professionally lost.

Some days, I felt I had a foot in a space where being a human was enough, like playing hooky and feeling part guilty, part giddy.

Others, like Alice in Wonderland, I felt trapped in an inescapable system of hustle nonsense.

I realized I had become a human doing, and this little experiment was asking me to reshape my way of being.

It's still going on, and yet I started tasting a level of lightness and some incredible synchronicities as if celestial beings now participated in rearranging my work with unexpected opportunities and aligned clients.

I feel ridiculous to have taken a year to detox from doing and measuring.

Yet, I am infinitely grateful for this 2024 endeavor, for it was the year I allowed myself to trust the universe. Had I known it does a much better job at it than me, I would have saved a lot of energy!

Wishing you happy holidays!

May 2025 be the year of ease for us all - starting with putting all my crazy ideas to rest :)

Cheers!

A

PS: Universe's career management services are now open. Rates: One leap of faith, minimum commitment required.