Dealing with Goal Fatigue What to Do When the Goals Aren't Getting You Anywhere, Ep. 359

<p>Dana Bowman is the author <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781942094715">How to Be Perfect Like Me</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781937612979">Bottled Up: A Mom’s Guide to Early Recovery</a>. She was the 2016 recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award, making her the only podcast guest to share that distinction with me. What else do we share? The experience of feeling a level of exhaustion with the goals we’ve set for ourselves and the need to find our way back into the work. </p><p><strong>Links from the Pod</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/home.aspx">Clifton Strengths</a> </p><p>The highly competitive <a target="_blank" href="https://kslib.info/849/Kansas-Notable-Books">Kansas Notable Book Award!</a> </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://acuff.me/">Jon Acuff</a></p><p>Becky Blades episode #347, <a target="_blank" href="https://amwriting.substack.com/p/start-more-than-you-can-finish-redefining">Start More than You Can Finish: Redefining failure</a></p><p><strong>#AmReading</strong></p><p><strong>Dana:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780063026117">Vacationland</a>, Meg Mitchell Moore</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780063204164">Remarkably Bright Creatures</a>, Shelby Van Pelt</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593329528">The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control</a>, Katherine Morgan Schafler</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781524760915">Four Tendencies</a>, Gretchen Rubin</p><p><strong>KJ:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593468760">The Society of Shame</a>, Jane Roper</p><p>Mentioned: <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593743904">Life in Five Senses</a>, Gretchen Rubin</p><p></p><p><strong>Are you itching for a career change but struggling to figure out that next chapter? By now, you’ve probably heard us talk about book coaching—how mu