While aiming for straight Cs sounds like it might be a low bar if you are thinking about earning straight Cs on your school report card, the idea of aiming for straight Cs in this context is about achieving the six Cs of career ease and there is nothing mediocre about this goal.

It’s Monday and you have no idea how you're going to generate the energy to make it to Friday. The week ahead looks like a crazy reality show obstacle course where you are just one slick handhold away from falling off and into the mud pit.

Imposter syndrome may be hard to spot sometimes because it appears that confidence is present. However, the confidence in imposter syndrome isn’t real. It’s a decoy so that others don’t see the deep distress underneath.

Just like career frenemies “worry” and “calm”, “overwhelm” and “clarity” would never be described as besties. They just have a whole different outlook and approach.

Career worry and career calm are not friendly neighbors. In fact, they don’t talk at all. Honestly, I think career worry is so busy and preoccupied that there just isn’t a spare moment for career calm.

There is quite a contrast between career dread and career contentment. In the context of your career, dread is a death to hope, a death to optimism and a death to your dreams.

What could you do with some career certainty in your life? What might it feel like to replace anxiety with certainty?

It’s almost summertime when thoughts turn to sun-filled days of kicking back and taking it easy. This is a season when the packed schedules give way to a certain sense of relaxation and ease.

You’ve had a long history of success in your career so this feeling of being an imposter is particularly baffling, not to mention frustrating and frightening.

Worry is a tricky character. It can trick us into feeling like we are doing something to address our underlying career problems - as if the act of worry itself is going to magically make the problems go away.

If you search for the term “Sunday Scaries” you are likely to find many references that utilize the words “anxiety” and “dread” to establish the common feelings associated with the Sunday Scaries.

It’s quite reasonable to want to look forward to the start of each work week with happy anticipation. We all deserve to have clarity, ease, and confidence in our careers.