2/21/25 Newsletter
4 Habits to Accelerate Your Career Success
At work, navigating the dynamics of your boss, your team, your company, your customers, all of their feelings AND your own is a challenge. Add to it that you are a human with a wide-spectrum of emotions, experiences, and responsibilities beyond the office, and you’re off the deep end, along with the aforementioned everyone else.
Early in my career, I was always asking everyone for their recipe for success in their career — a question they often struggled to answer. As I’ve grown to be obsessed with the topic of life and career success, I’ve interviewed hundreds of leaders, read countless biographies, listened to thousands of podcasts, and ultimately what I believe is that success comes to those with a bias for goal-oriented action, a solid ratio of confidence : humility : empathy, and the willingness to grow, adapt, and rise to the occasion. I think makes people successful isn’t their pedigree, or big bets they made at various points in their career (though those help), but their commitment to developing their own personal operating system — their systems, habits, who they surround themselves with, and how they approach problem-solving, and helping others develop their own personal operating systems too.
In this article, I have broken down four habits of my operating system, ones that I try to embody every day in my approach to my work, and that I encourage those around me to adopt as well.
Chicken Parmesan Bake (aka Casserole)
Charlie, has been in our lives now for 18 months. My husband, Ronnie, and I both work pretty demanding careers in sales.
Neither of us plans to give up our careers at this point, nor do I see our ambitions waning. What does this mean? The marathon of Monday through Friday is our new normal, and to be honest between wake up, daycare drop, working out, work, playtime, dinner time, and finally bedtime, there’s not a ton of space in our days anymore. So we have to be pretty optimized to get through.
The weekends afford us the luxury of time, time to reset our home, our fridge, our nervous systems, and most importantly, time for us to spend time doing the things we love – for me, that’s cooking, creating, and writing.
One of my new things is preparing “bakes” (ahem, casseroles) each week, so we have healthy-ish, homemade-ish, dinner options ready to go from freezer to dinner table with absolutely zero effort in under an hour.
I give all the credit to my bestie Tasha for teaching me the art of the bake. She’s the best. 10/10 recommend putting “have a bestie like Tash” on your bucket list.
