#492 Never Live the Same Year Twice: How to Get Unstuck

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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🥇 Sign up for the sprint here: https://bit.ly/41jasYO Are you unintentionally repeating the same career year again and again? This is the second episode in the Squiggly Careers quote series, and today Sarah shares the quote that’s inspired her career mindset: “Never live the same year twice.” In the episode, Helen and Sarah talk about how this idea helped Sarah move beyond linear ladder-thinking and sparked a more intentional, experimental approach to career development. You’ll learn how to embrace variety and novelty — so your career (and confidence) can keep evolving. ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:56 The quote: “Never live the same year twice” 02:05 What inspired Sarah to choose this quote 04:46 How to avoid feeling stuck 05:57 Turning inspiration into action 06:38 Action 1: Coach-yourself question 07:58 Action 2: The “what” – use the fresh-start effect 09:56 Action 3: The “who” – connect with weak ties 12:14 Action 4: The “where” – new places and spaces 13:44 Final thoughts 🎯 What You’ll Learn - How to avoid career complacency and increase resilience - How the fresh-start effect can create lasting change - Why weak ties expand your learning and opportunities - How space and variety can spark new career ideas 📚 Resources Mentioned Values Toolkit (Free) https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ The Long Win by Cath Bishop https://bit.ly/4mozgXo How To Change Katy Milkman https://bit.ly/45izWXI For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 🏃‍♀️ Join our next Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/skillssprint2024 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just
0:06.1	want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are excited about. And that is the Squiggly Careers
0:11.1	Skill Sprint is back. This time we're going to be sprinting with the community in September and our
0:16.5	sprint is going to last a week. We're going to be focusing on the topic of the squiggly career skills,
0:21.8	so that's strengths, values, confidence, network and future. And we're going to be accelerating
0:26.6	your learning with AI. So we have got prompts for you to play with. We've got tools for you to
0:31.9	try out and everything is free. It will take you 10 minutes a day to either listen or watch the episode and then as much time as
0:40.2	you want to experiment with your learning. And all you need to do is sign up now for the sprint
0:45.1	and we will send you everything you need to get set up. So the website to go to is squiggly sprint.com.
0:51.9	Just add your email there and we will add you to the sprint list
0:55.2	and we'll send you your squiggly career ready, steady sprint guide so that you can get
0:59.2	started. And if you have any questions about the sprint, just get in touch with us. We're
1:03.6	Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com. But for now, on to today's episode.
1:12.2	Hi, I'm Sarah.
1:13.6	And I'm Helen.
1:14.5	And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
1:17.0	Every week we talk about a different topic to do with work
1:19.5	and share ideas and actions to help all of us navigate these squiggly careers
1:24.0	without a bit more confidence and control.
1:26.3	And we're recording a series for the
1:28.4	summer. And so we want to do something slightly different because we recognise that work might
1:32.2	feel a bit different in the summer and might be juggling some different things, holidays, childcare,
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