Intentional Conversations

Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.

This week we welcomed Amanda Miller Littlejohn to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM AMANDA:

• People spend a lot of energy trying to produce with perfection instead of just producing as they go. Perfection shouldn’t be the goal… progress should be.
• Work as worth - machine mindset dictates your output, your level of doing as work in the world, determines your value. We find ourselves over working to try and make up those deficits, even though we are inherently valuable as we are.
• If you’re chasing your self worth - via the work you produce - and you forego rest to do that, you can see how burnout lives.
• Muscle memory is why we ignore humanity.
• If working twice as hard is tangled up in your self worth, you will never be able to satiate it. Working twice as hard is detrimental when you prioritize it over everything else. Working twice as hard sometimes doesn’t yield the results you are wanting.
• Burnout is caused by a series of misalignments across the board... our time, our ambition, our relationships, our relationship with ourselves.
• Rest is very important piece of burnout.
• Recognizing your humanity and reminding yourself that it is ok to feel what I’m feeling.
• The people who make a permanent shift actually change their lives.
• Realignment is a daily practice.
• Become a student of yourself!

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