Work Differently for Sustainable Career Success in Finance
Your Career Shouldn't Cost You This Much.
What if everything you're currently doing at work didn't need to be done with the level of intensity, precision or frequency you're currently doing it?
What if some of it didn't need to be done at all?
This workbook will help you look at the assumptions you might be making,
the standards you might be holding yourself to
and the ways you might be working that have become habitual.
As a practical guide, it will also help you find one way to give work
less of yourself right now - without lowering your standards
or losing your edge.
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You're successful at what you do.
But work is costing you more than you want it to - and more than it should.
Time — Working more evenings and weekends than you want to. Opening your laptop again after dinner. Giving up parts of your weekend to catch up.
Mental energy — Work is done for the day. But your brain is still at work.
Relationships — You’re with the people you love, but not really there. Or you’re missing time with them altogether.
Health — Sleep, exercise, eating well - all the things that keep you well - are the first to get squeezed. Or cut out altogether.
The rest of your life — Putting what you want to do off until "later" or when work "settles down”. But somehow, it never does.
Some of that may genuinely come with a demanding career in finance. But does it need to be all of it? And does it need to be all the time?
You want to give less of yourself to work, so you try to manage the workload better.
You plan your days more carefully. Prioritize and reprioritize. Look for ways to be more efficient.
Delegate more. Block time in your calendar. Try to set better boundaries.
And all of those things can help.
But you're still trying to figure out how to get it all done.
You're reorganizing the work, putting it into your calendar and trying to get through it more efficiently —
without questioning whether everything you're doing
and the way you're currently doing it is actually required in the first place.
What if the problem isn't just the workload - but how you're working?
It’s easy to develop ways of working that feel required for your success:
always being available, staying involved in everything, taking on more, checking everything one more time.
But some of those things may not actually be required. They may just be what you’ve become used to doing.
So instead of only asking, “How can I get all of this done?”
what if you also started asking, “Do I need to be doing all of this in the first place?”
Because there may be things you could stop doing, do less often or do differently — and still be just as successful.
That’s where you start to create more time and energy for the rest of your life without lowering your standards or losing your edge.
A simple process to uncover one place to start:
1
Define what success means
to you right now
2
Identify one thing you're doing right now because you believe it's required for your success
3
Question whether that is
truly required or something
you've assumed, a standard you've been holding yourself to or a way of working that has just become habitual
4
Choose one small change that helps you to stop doing it, do it differently or do it less frequently - and experiment
Imagine giving less of yourself
to work - without compromising
your career success.
More time for what matters
More energy for the rest of your life
Without jeopardizing your career
Meet Your Life & Leadership Coach - Allison Marie
After 20+ years in finance leadership, I understand the pressure, the pace, and what it feels like when success stops feeling sustainable.
Now, I help ambitious professionals redesign how they work, so they can succeed in finance without sacrificing themselves or the rest of their lives.
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