Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm specializing in activating workplaces,

helping leaders bring simplicity, ease, and big giant results to the forefront.

Remember, your questions and curiosities are the fuel behind the show.

So if something workplace related has been on your mind, leave me a voicemail with your question at 201-67-8113, and I may just answer it on a future podcast. So this week,

I had a real gift of an experience. I was sitting with a friend in a coffee shop, and we saw a guy

outside try to pull the door to come on in.

No biggie happens all the time, right?

You try to pull a door, it doesn't budge, so you realize you need to push it.

But this guy, he was committed.

We watched him pretty nearly break a sweat, trying to yank that door open.

Eventually, yeah, he figured it out.

But for a while there, all I could think was, hey man, really seems like pulling isn't the solution you're looking for. Maybe try a push. Okay, enough about this poor guy. But it is a metaphor

for today. Because today, I want to talk about problems.

The kind that arise time and again,

but we keep implementing the same wrong solutions,

the kind where we keep on pulling when what we need is a push.

They do, I believe, call that insanity.

You know, trying the same thing over and over,

but expecting a different result.

So here are some of the problems I see on repeat, where it's time to bring in some new solutions.

Number one, people are burned out. I mean, this one kind of blows my mind. I feel like I'm still

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