Stop Chasing What You're "Supposed" to Want

You're either fully locked in or asleep. Rest doesn't compute anymore. When it shows up, it comes with anxiety and a story that you're failing. That pressure isn't really about time. It's about expectations you never chose, but absorbed anyway, until they started feeling like your own. This week's Lab: whose life purpose you're actually living, and how to tell.

We'll cover:

• Why the pressure you feel isn't about time, and where it's actually coming from
• How to tell if a goal is yours or one you inherited without noticing
• A simple test, choose, iterate practice for deciding for yourself. Every time, not just once

Who shows up here:

• You're checking every box and still asking why none of it feels like relief
• Rest feels foreign. When you stop, the anxiety gets there before the rest does
• You've caught yourself procrastinating on "the thing" and wondered if that's actually information

About the Lab:
NJ Career & Life Decision Lab is a free, ongoing group for people working through a career or life decision that's bigger than a to-do list. New topic most weeks, same small group, no pitch when you show up.

Hosted by Gloria Julien. Career & Life Decision coach, ICF Associate Certified Coach, and a former mechanical engineer who's made a career leap like this twice herself.

Curious what deciding actually looks like, not just thinking about it? Your Life Unbounded podcast digs into this every week: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube.