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Why is good enough never good enough?
New ideas, tools, and reflections, built to fit real life.
Paul Thomas
July 01, 2025
Hi everyone,
#GlowUp has over 27 million TikTok posts.
#WorkOnYourself? Over 100 million views.
#GetYourLifeTogether? Pushing 40 million.
That’s just a tiny glimpse of the never-ending scroll of transformation content flying past us every day. No wonder so many of us quietly feel behind even when we’re doing our best.
Feeds full of glow-up challenges and six-step hacks rarely boost real confidence. More often, they fuel overwhelm and quietly chip away at our self-worth.
This week’s featured tool offers a steadier, more grounded starting point:
The Career Reset Wheel
When everything feels urgent, it’s easy to keep tweaking yourself instead of asking: what actually needs my energy?
Takes 2 minutes. Backed by coaching research. Completely free.
The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life or Coaching Wheel is a staple tool for any coach and something I’ve used with many clients over the years, it’s simple but very powerful, and unlike much of the snake oil being offered online it works; here’s the proof if you need it.
Keep or Kill: MBTI / Meyers Briggs
In my 20 years of leadership and coaching, I’ve seen buzzwords come and go some genuinely useful, others just dressed-up nonsense. But what’s your take? Is MBTI a helpful self-awareness tool, or just corporate astrology in a suit?
It’s one of the most widely used personality frameworks in the world, grouping people into 16 types based on how they think, feel, and make decisions. Some swear by it. Others dismiss it as little more than neat labels. So insightful or outdated?
What's your take - keep or kill?Add you thoughts to the comments |
Vote and I’ll share the results next time.
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Bonus Tool: What’s Already Working for You?
If you want a companion resource that highlights your strengths, not your flaws, try the VIA Character Strengths Survey.
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Share your results with me and I’ll reply with my own personal insight.
đź“š From the Book Club: Me, But Better by Olga Khazan
This month’s pick dives into one of the questions I get asked more than almost any other: Can people really change? In Me, But Better, Olga Khazan explores whether personality is fixed or flexible blending science, psychology, and her own attempts to become more confident, outgoing, and resilient. It’s sharp, funny, and full of surprising insights. I’m loving it so far and honestly can’t put it down. Highly recommended.
The book also hits close to home. Sometimes, without realising it, our managers can echo the same pressure we get from all that online transformation noise. I’ve definitely fallen into the “be better” trap, especially at work. I’ve had managers who meant well but seemed more interested in shaping me into their idea of what “good” looked like. I said things I didn’t believe. I downplayed my strengths. I let others take the lead not because they were better, but because I didn’t want to rock the boat.
And it worked.
Until it didn’t.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to grow.
But when every second post promises a six-step glow-up, every “hack” claims to unlock your potential, and every one-to-one focuses on where you fell short that month it’s easy to feel like you’ve failed before you’ve even begun.
Growth isn’t a product.
It’s a process.
And it starts by getting clear on what matters to you.
Next Time:
Your poll results, my hot take, and a case study exploring why MBTI is still so widely used and what that says about how we understand ourselves at work.
Until then don’t let “better” be another stick to beat yourself with.
Start where you are, focus on what matters, start with the wheel.
Until next time,
Paul
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