Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast. Every week we talk about

a topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions that we hope will help you to navigate

this squiggly career that we're all having with a bit more confidence, clarity and control.

And as well as the conversation that we're going to have today,

you can also get lots of additional support to. So we create pod sheets, which are one-page summaries

to help you to take action. We have pod mail to make it easy to access all of our resources.

That comes out every Tuesday morning. And we also have Pod Plus, which is a weekly free session

where you can talk about the topics

that we discuss on the podcast with a like-minded community of learners. It is all free and it's all

part of our mission to make careers better for everybody. So all of those links will be in the show

notes or you can just go to our website amazing if.com and you'll be able to find it all there.

So today's topic is about micro moments of motivation, as in what small

things can we do to feel a bit better about what we're working on and the way we're working

and how we're getting our work done in case it might be feeling a bit difficult right now.

And I guess the idea for this podcast has come from where Sarah and I are both at right now,

sort of midway through the year. And also from some feedback we've had from lots of learners that

are on our courses about how they're feeling. It's this sort of, you know, we're halfway into the

year so that that thought of your, you know, the energy of New Year's resolutions is long gone and there's still quite a long time to go.

I think I talk to a lot of people now and they're sort of anchoring themselves to a summer

holiday. I feel like it's like the summer holiday is in sight and they just need a bit of a boost

to get them to that point. And that just feels like the reality of lots of conversations that I'm

having with people right now. So we thought that maybe some

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