The “Work Ethic” Lie: Is Over-functioning Your Only Strategy?
For years, we’ve been told that our “all-in” drive is our greatest asset. But for the high-intensity founder, that drive often masks a biological glitch: Over-functioning. When we don’t feel “safe” in the silence of our own vision work, or when the pressure of being the sole provider of the vision becomes too heavy, we retreat. We retreat into research rabbit holes. We retreat into “fixing” things that are already working. We retreat into the “Safety Blanket” of low-level tasks because they feel more controllable than high-level strategy.
In today’s 5-minute audio reset, we deconstruct the “Fixer” identity. We explore why your brain chooses detours over direction and provide a somatic and strategic framework to move out of the Survival Operating System and back into your CEO chair.
What you’ll learn in this 5-minute reset:
- Why over-functioning is a “Vitality Tax” that leads to Decision Bankruptcy by 11.
- How to identify the “Client Rabbit Hole” before it steals your best cognitive energy.
- A 60-second somatic reset to break the physical “bracing” response in your jaw.
- The “Decide Once” framework to turn busy-work into business architecture.
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Love this strategy. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, this is great. As a journalist, I have fallen into many research rabbit holes. Since my name is Alice, it’s amazing that I ever emerged intact from any of them. I definitely need a reset!