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Your Own Definition of Enough

Life on the outside: How elimination of her corporate role brought one woman to a place of peace and clarity about what matters

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Emily Burnett
Apr 09, 2024
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, a favorite former coworker (Jessica) popped to mind. As I am wont to do with friends and family, I called her out of the blue to see how life post-layoff was going. Forget exchanging multiple texts to figure out when we’re mutually available; how about that old-fashioned, non-corporate, pick-up-the-phone-and-just-call thing?

Hours and many scribbled notes later, we wrapped up a really good talk about the stuff that really matters—the purpose of work, how we lose our way, what we’re learning about “enough” and living meaningfully.

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Like many of you, she’s married, a busy parent with three kids in different stages of life, involved in the community and an all-around upstanding citizen. She tends to put the needs of others ahead of her own and I’d guess she’s the last to bed and the first one up at her house.

Don’t even hint…

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