Send one brave email a day for a month. By the end, your inbox will look like a totally different life.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Most of what changes a working life comes from messages that were never sent. Each one feels slightly presumptuous in the moment, and the effect of thirty of them is a different set of people who know who you are. The compounding is invisible until you look back at where the openings came from.
Send one this week that you would normally not send: the question, the introduction, the ask. Keep it short and specific. Do it again tomorrow, and keep a note of which ones got answered.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which email would you send first if you started today?
MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY
- Confidence is the receipt you get after you act. Nobody hands it out at the door.
- Ask the question that makes you sound new. You are new. Pretending otherwise just delays the part where you get good.
- Setting a boundary with a parent can be respectful and firm at the same time. Those aren’t opposites.
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