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You’re wasting an enormous amount of energy trying to make everyone else understand your choices.

Your career decisions.
Your goals.
The risks you’re taking.
The changes you’re making in your life.

You explain it one way, then another - hoping that if you just say it right, people will finally get it.

And a lot of the time, the people who question your changes the most are the people closest to you. Not because they don’t love you, but because they’re trying to make sense of your choices through THEIR lens - their fears, their experiences, their limits.

It’s okay to want them to understand. It hurts when they don’t! That’s why you explain and explain and explain your decision - because you’re trying to alleviate the pain you feel when someone questions, judges, or criticizes you. Because it feels like rejection.

But you’re not responsible for managing their understanding. The only person your decisions need to make sense to is you.

So if you’re building something new, pivoting in your career, taking a leap, or choosing a path that doesn’t look like everyone else’s…

Stop spending your energy explaining your life, and put that energy into living it.

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“What makes us fall in love is not the person that’s perfect… it’s the person that accepts OUR imperfections…” ❤️  Simon Sinek

❤️A Child Who Sees What Many Adults Miss🙌

❤️For Career Day, many children dress as astronauts, athletes, or famous stars.

This child chose something different.

He dressed as his school’s maintenance worker.

Not because it’s a glamorous job.
But because it’s the person he admires the most.

The one who opens the building every morning.
Fixes what’s broken.
Keeps the hallways clean.
Makes the school a place where everyone can learn.

❤️Sometimes the people who shape our lives the most are the ones working quietly in the background.

And when a child sees their value, it tells us something important:

Respect is learned by watching.❤️

When children notice kindness, effort, and dignity in everyday work, they grow up understanding that every role matters.

That’s leadership in its purest form.🙌



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I’m 4’10” on a good day. This is me standing next to Zaza Pachulia, the former Golden State Warriors center, who is 6’11”. You can do the math.

Nobody looks at this photo and thinks I should try harder to be taller. (Well, maybe my husband and some of our closest family and friends. 🤪) And no one on a plane has ever asked me to help with the overhead bin. When the difference is obvious, we just help. We reach up, grab the bag, and move on.

Very few have that instinct with AI.

AI right now rewards a specific way of thinking. If you naturally break problems into steps and structure prompts in sequence, it feels like a superpower. Same thing if you can easily connect the dots and envision a full process. If your brain doesn’t work that way, the same tools feel confusing and frustrating, and it’s easy to assume you’re the problem.

You’re not. But the gap is real, and it’s been three years.

The tools are catching up fast. AI is getting better at asking you questions instead of waiting for the perfect prompt. Agents are starting to handle the instructions that used to be all on you. Templates and pre-built workflows are replacing that “what do I even ask?” moment.

Think about the first time you used a smartphone. You didn’t learn it from a manual. The design got better and moved on from tiny buttons, a stylus, and no apps. Someone showed you a few things and you figured out the rest pretty quickly. AI is heading the same direction.

But right now, in this gap, if you can reach the overhead bin, reach it. I don't know if Zaza is a systems thinker, but if he's not, I'd gladly return the favor and help him with AI.

There are so many things happening in AI that people won't even use in a year!
 
But they're trying and they're learning. And they'll grow with the changes. 
 
I'm extremely bullish on the future of AI and I think more good will come with it than negative, but there is so much to keep up with - I myself feel behind at times and I'm using it almost every day and work with companies using it.

You can't keep up with everything, but don't do nothing. Try things out and see how they work and how you can use them in your work.

I'll have more videos on my YouTube channel on AI in the near future and I'll also be updating and making the AI for Data Professionals course on Analyst Builder more robust as well.

With quick advancements in AI, the EA role is changing fast.

So what's the reality?

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But it's non-negotiable that EAs MUST level up or they will get left behind.

So where do you start?

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Your success is not built by strategy alone.

It’s sustained by how you speak to yourself when no one is watching.