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April 13, 2025

Hi Reader,

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Welcome to The Sunday Shift!

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Curiosity goes beyond exploration. It’s a tool for transformation, especially when you're stuck in a loop of familiar thinking.

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One of the clearest clues you're in a limiting pattern:

1. You start telling long-winded stories
2. Overexplaining
3. Filling the silence with blah-blah-blah

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Sound familiar? I know this all too well.

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That’s often a cue you’re trying to justify, avoid, or protect something. Not a judgment, just an awareness. And an awareness is the perfect place to break the pattern.

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⚡️ 1 Habit

Practice a curiosity-based pattern interrupt

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Next time you catch yourself spiraling into an old story, pause and ask:

• What pattern am I repeating right now?
• What am I trying to avoid or protect?
• What might be true beyond this story?

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Then apply The Five Whys: Ask yourself “why?” five times in a row. Stay with the discomfort.

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Why it works: That’s where the shift happens.

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📖 1 Story

Breaking my own pattern

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Not long ago, I made a big decision: to build my business, for real.

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I set a date. I did the work. I launched.

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Then… I either went silent, or I started storytelling. The blah-blah-blah kind. Long explanations. Old job titles. Corporate “cred.” All of it.

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And then it hit me. I was giving away my power to the past. As if choosing entrepreneurship somehow made me less.

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But I caught myself. I remembered a tool from my corporate days—lean thinking and The Five Whys.

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So I turned it on myself:

• Why am I holding myself back?
• Why does this feel safe?
• Why am I afraid to be seen in this new identity?
• Why does this part of me feel unworthy of success?
• Why am I still clinging to who I used to be?

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That cracked something open.

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It wasn’t about my résumé. It was about how willing I was to feel uncomfortable while growing into the person I’m meant to be. It was about stepping into my gifts and leading myself forward.

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🎯 1 Focus

Identifying your own patterns

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This week, ask yourself:

• How willing am I to feel uncomfortable to get what I want?
• How would I behave if I was already the best at what I do?
• What’s the opposite of every fear I’ve been looping in my mind?

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Pattern thinking keeps you safe (protecting your comfort zone). Curiosity moves you forward.

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Say less. Ask more. Then move.

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Hit reply and let me know—what thinking pattern are you breaking? I’d love to hear and I promise, Reader, I’m listening.

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See you next Sunday.

Jenn

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