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Help Wanted

"I Have Too Many Ideas and Analysis Paralysis. Help!"

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Listener Melissa calls the Help Line today because she's experiencing some analysis paralysis (haven't we all). Jason gives her a formula to help her determine which parts of her work she should change; plus, he shares how to failure-proof her pivot by making it into an experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Help Launton, the show that tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

0:14.0

I'm Jason Feiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, and I'm New York Time Specialing

0:17.8

author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

0:20.4

The helpline is open!

0:24.2

Feeling unfulfilled at work sucks, because you don't even know where the problem is

0:29.8

or how to fix it, and suddenly you start thinking, maybe I just have to throw everything

0:32.9

away, maybe my whole life has to change, and that is probably what drove.

0:39.4

This seven minute long voice memo that we got from a listener who is in this exact spot.

0:46.1

You can hear it for yourself, we will not play all seven minutes for you, but here is

0:49.7

just a sampling.

0:50.7

Hi, I'm feeling kind of under-employed and stuck in my work situation, and I wanted

0:59.0

some advice.

1:00.0

I did wilderness therapy with teens first, and I worked with a mobile mechanic in Goal

1:05.2

as to start my own farm, and did you have any of them?

1:08.3

I'm dipping my toe in, I guess, to a side hustle where I'm selling candy out of ingredients

1:14.2

I forage, so it's like mountain marshmallows, and is it more important to be happy with

1:19.3

what I'm doing, or should I just take a job paying higher wages and like-

1:23.9

I'm fine, but I could also be mowing lawns in the city, which would be farther.

1:30.0

I could ask for a raise, that's a possibility.

1:32.8

I'm a smart skilled, really hardworking person who, you know, I don't want to make it sound

1:39.5

like I'm so put out, but I just, I'm grateful for what I have, but I just want more, and

1:47.0

I want to find a path.

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