Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just

want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new book,

Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and growing at work,

but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.

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and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some

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Now let's get on to today's episode.

You don't need to find hours every day to invest in your career development.

You just need to find five minutes and a little bit of

curiosity and you can make a lot of progress. In this squiggly career shortcut, I'm going to talk

about five easy everyday ideas that are going to make a really big difference to your development.

So, idea number one, start to reflect on your very small successes at the end of every day.

Your very small successes are those little things that you do well that we often miss because

we're so busy and we're always moving on to the next

thing. But if you can start to create an intention, a habit where you stop and see those successes,

it is a way that we stop the inner critic that tells us what we didn't do and what we're very,

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