Here’s a story for you. There once was a bright, enthusiastic developer. Kinda like you. She landed an amazing job. It was a bit scary because she was new at it but she wanted to rise to the challenge, to solve problems, to get paid and to start out on her big, terrific adult life.

Things went pretty A-OK at her job and she was given bigger assignments, more responsibility and … tighter deadlines. She was put on important projects. When the whole team went all-in on a big push, it was thrilling and she felt great to be part of the tribe, to deliver the product, to hit the delivery mark.

Soon, she was always assigned to important projects. Her manager asked her to mentor newer employees. She got a raise, a promotion or two, took out loans, bought some big-ticket items. Emails flooded in: electronic system notifications, overly cheerful company morale-building events, survey requests, project specs, production issues and more. The company added instant messaging and video calls. Daily agile standups for every project, and even though she was supposed to be focusing on her main tasks, the other interruptions never really went away. The quiet focused time she needed eroded. She used to spend six hours a day quietly coding. Now she was lucky if she spent two. Now, she was doing it all in the evenings from her couch while she snacked mindlessly.

Our young, enthusiastic developer was now a respected mid-level programmer (or analyst, or engineer). The big pushes she used to enjoy seemed to have become her way of life. Her manager was sympathetic but was having the same issues. Soon our programmer was starting to see herself as failing at her job. She wasn’t hitting targets she thought she should. She couldn’t control her email, she could only be tolerant with interruptions for so long and then she lashed out. She was missing family outings and not taking all her vacation time. Most alarming of all, sometimes she would cry… right in the middle of a work-day. She stopped going to lunch, eating at her desk, trying to save time, hoping she might not have to work so late. Soon, she stopped drinking water during the day. It was too hard to find time to break away. Meetings were booked back to back and if she didn’t keep working, she’d be up all night.

Finally, her sleep stopped working. Thoughts of work invaded her nighttime hours, waking her up or making it impossible to go back to bed. She started binge-watching shows in the hours after midnight when she found she couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t remember the last time she read a novel or just came home on time five days in a row. She began to show up later to work. The only thing that could save her now was a new job.

Sound familiar?

This person is a combination of several of my clients. Real people, really suffering. Let’s keep looking at this combination client as one, lovely, overwhelmed and very sad developer ( or manager, or entrepreneur.)

One day, when she was weak, when she was ready to try anything, she met me, or another coach, or she saw an ad and in a fit of desperation, signed up for something she barely knew anything about. The promise was that it would be different. Maybe, just maybe this might help. She had nothing to lose. She clicked on a link, dug out her credit card, double-checked the money-back guarantee and, holding her nose, jumped in. She hired a life coach.

She met her coach over a video call which was great because frankly, she didn’t really have time to drive anywhere. Sometimes, she just left the video off and they talked.

Her coach asked her what she wanted out of life. She was so broken, she honestly didn’t have a goal. She just wanted to stop suffering. Her coach gave her videos to watch, a page or two to read, easy homework that she took very seriously. She watched the videos and did the homework. None of it was earth-shattering but by working through real-life examples from her work, the developer started to see how she could make changes that actually got her different results. After a couple of weeks, she started to feel better. She wasn’t sure if it was the coaching or if things had just happened to get a little less hectic at work. One thing was for sure, she was learning how to say no and how to evaluate her own thinking.

After four weeks, when she met with her coach, she didn’t have a huge issue to discuss. Things were… OK. Not bad. She had made progress – like changing the way she managed her time, and crazily, she’d had an entire weekend when she didn’t check her email. She wasn’t sure she needed a coach anymore. Her coach had her start making lists. Daydream lists of what she wanted out of life, how she wanted to live, what she wanted to achieve. A lot of the stuff was really pretty doable now that she had it on paper. The future was starting to look better.

Sounds like bull, doesn’t it?

It’s not. It’s what happened to me when I took the chance and worked with a coach. It’s what happens for the majority of my clients who go through my Reboot Your Day Job program. The ones who are committed, who do the homework and who show up ready to make a change get the exact results I outlined. You could too.

I’ve already given you everything you need to know, right here in my blog. If you start at the beginning, watch the video and work through the examples from my year of blogging, you could get these same results. Or you can work with me for six weeks and feel start feeling better right away.

I’ve added a money-back guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied with the program I will refund your payment. And… I’ll do that one better. I’ll give you a discount if you sign up by 1/31/2020.

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During a 50 year career, we will spend 30% of our waking hours at work.

My premise is simple: If you’re gonna spend that much time doing something, you should darn well enjoy it.

• For years, I liked my job, but I struggled with the same issues over and over again:
  • Overwork & overwhelm
  • Judging myself too harshly
  • Saying yes to too many things
  • Waking up at night and fretting about situations or projects
  • Feeling guilty about disconnecting
  • Focusing on the wrong things during the day, working late at night to catch up.

I WAS A MESS; WORK WAS A MESS & I WANTED – TO RUN. AWAY.

• Then, I started working with a life coach, and she helped me clean up my thinking
  • I got perspective, I got more done, of the right things, at the right time.
  • I started managing my work instead of letting it control me.
  • I learned to treat myself better and to see mistakes in a different light.
  • I practiced saying no in the right way to the right things.
  • I stopped disrespecting myself & I dropped all that guilt like a hot potato
  • I put my thoughts into the proper place and time. I started sleeping better and better

I was so amazed –

I trained as a life coach just to find out how all that happened. 

If the person in the story sounds like you, and you’re ready for a change, please be brave.

If you want to feel better fast, click here to get the coupon code.

And that? Is just good to do.