You Don’t Always Have to Finish What You Started//The Art of a Pivot

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of pivoting in life and the difficulty of letting go of outdated goals and plans.

We are halfway through the year, and I think a lot of us are sitting with plans that aren't working, goals that no longer feel like ours, or ideas we've outgrown but can't bring ourselves to release. So instead of a "get back on track" pep talk, we're having a more honest conversation than that. In this episode, we're talking about the art of the pivot: what it actually means to change direction, why it's so hard to let go even when you know you should, and how to stop chaining yourself to ol...

People in this episode

Host: Mariah Hutchinson

Topics covered

• pivoting
• goals
• self-improvement
• change
• letting go

Keywords

• pivot
• goals
• self-improvement
• change direction
• letting go

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