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So today, I want to talk about a phenomenon known as overachieving, which is extremely prevalent today, so much so that if I'm not describing you, I'm likely describing somebody you know very well.

Overachieving is defined as the unrelenting drive for high performance.

And there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal last month about this topic. And I'm going to essentially read portions of that article and link it to what I see on my end in coaching,

because as you might imagine, I mean, most of the women that I speak with and work with are definitely overachievers.

Not always, but about 85%.

And trying to recognize the problems with that can be very difficult, especially when you've been raised

your entire life to become a high achiever. So I'm going to start with this article that was called

for happiness in the new year, stop overdoing everything.

It was written by a Juliana, sorry, Julia de Ganji, I guess, in the Wall Street Journal.

I'm going to link this in the show notes if you want to read it yourself.

She opens by saying, as a neuropsychologist, much of my work focuses on how people respond to

stress. I often find myself helping people understand the effects of self-defeating behaviors that I

call the overs. It's a familiar list. Overworking, overachieving, over thinking, over explaining,

over-giving, over-comm committing, and over accommodating.

So she's lumping.

I'm going to focus and hone in on overachieving or high achievers, if you will.

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