Ep178: Overthinking, self-sabotage and the fear of failure.

📌 Mei Phing Lim is a Professional Career Coach and former Corporate Leader in the banking, FinTech and consulting industries. She led multimillion-dollar projects with teams from over 43 countries as the Senior Director at Standard Chartered, while only in her 20s. Mei Phing had worked closely with business CEOs and C-suite level management. Nowadays, Mei Phing teaches 9-5 professionals how to grow their careers with clarity, confidence and opportunities in her career program, Corporate Survivor™.

📌 Corporate Survivor™ is a 12-month career program where you will master everything on how to add value at work, level-up your career & grow your salary. Get recognised for your hard work & sell your value for new opportunities using Mei Phing's 3-Step Framework [Get Clear, Get Confident, Get Visible]. Monthly mentorship calls with Mei Phing where you'll get practical feedback and become more confident as you climb the career ladder.

📌 Corporate Survivor "the podcast" is the best place to start learning from Mei Phing's corporate world insights, experiences and wisdom so you can grow your 9-5 career with clarity, confidence and opportunities. Mini episodes where you'll get a bit of a taster of what you can expect when working with Mei Phing inside the Corporate Survivor™.

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📌 ABOUT THIS EPISODE:

In this episode, Mei Phing discusses how overthinking can sabotage career success by hindering decision-making, overcoming workplace challenges, and implementing career growth strategies. Fear of failure and comparing oneself to others contribute to overthinking tendencies.

Highlights

0:00 🎵 Introduction to the topic of overthinking and its impact on career success

0:36 📝 Three ways overthinking affects career progress: decision-making, overcoming challenges, and career growth strategies

2:26 🧠 Mindset shift to overcome overthinking tendencies and achieve goals

4:19 💭 Reflecting on past career obstacles and the amount of time spent overthinking

5:54 📊 Survey results reveal fear of failure as a common concern among 9-to-5 professionals

7:09 🤔 Analyzing the fear of failure and its impact on career growth

9:01 🌟 Importance of identifying the cause of feeling like a failure and reevaluating comparisons with others

11:29 🚀 Taking action and voicing concerns to achieve career progress

13:12 🔄 Story of a student who overthought her career break and ended up doing nothing

15:03 📚 Step-by-step approach to career growth and overcoming overthinking tendencies

17:14 🌟 Encouragement to take action and avoid staying stagnant in current situations