Good morning from New York City. What I’m thinking about today is body intelligence and the clues and cues we get from our body. It can be knots in our stomach, our heart skipping a beat, or our blood pressure slightly rising.

I’ve been talking about the fact that I am throwing my hat into the ring on various jobs, and I noticed the other day that I started obsessing on how I don’t check off all the boxes, and how my experience might not hold up in a particular job. Well, let me backtrack for a minute here. Because I have been a business owner and I’ve had a non-linear path over the last several years, my resume can be read in a couple of different ways. In fact, I’m going after several different categories of jobs. Anyway, in this one particular category there were some really great jobs, yet I noticed that I was reading the job descriptions with a negative lens. I was negotiating with myself on how I wasn’t good enough, and how my experience didn’t quite measure up.

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