Mental Health, Layoffs, and finding your Unfair Advantage

I am grateful for?the 503 of you that have joined the?Kaizen Mentality?community. Welcome to the?7th edition! If you are new here you can check out the first few?here. If not, welcome back.

I'll teach you how to improve your life in less than 5 minutes by taking action on the Kaizen Challenges provided.

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1 in every 8 people in the world live with a mental disorder.

Depression, PTSD, anxiety, eating disorders, schizophrenia, ADHD, bipolar, and more. Imagine being labeled with something that will affect you for the rest of your life.

Families deny the diagnosis, avoid talking about it, and treat you differently than who you were before. Society makes you feel like you are less, judged, and not capable.

Andy Dunn , founder of Bonobos shared his story breaking the stigma around mental health and inspiring others. Please do yourself a favor and read his book Burn Rate.

It is one of the best books I have ever read and it helps you understand the journey and experience of someone with bipolar.

People recently diagnosed with bipolar struggle to take their prescribed medication.

It's not because we are idiots. It's because we'd rather roll the dice and be ourselves and be ourselves than be someone we don't know. - Andy Dunn

Kaizen Challenge 1: Buy Burn Rate, read it, and put on some glasses

Support a Chicago non-profit, Hope for the Day, empowering the discussion around mental health and suicide prevention.

Continuing the conversation of mental health there has been a ton of layoffs within the past few weeks at Stripe , Chime , Lyft , Twitter , Opendoor , Meta , 亚马逊 , and more.

Your job doesn't define who you are, know your worth. I can't imagine what you must feel, but know the community is here for you on LinkedIn . I am here for you.

Kaizen Challenge 2: Refer someone to their next role, help others.

You have an unfair advantage. Your experiences, failures, and background differentiate you from everyone else in the world.

Kaizen Challenge 3: Open a blank document and write your experiences, failures, and accomplishments.

This will help in the interview process by crafting stories. It also will help you identify what people would pay you for outside of your workplace.

Whether you know multiple languages, are a professional at knitting hats, or training dogs you have skills that people would pay you for outside your job.

I would love to help you identify what side hustle you can start to expand your income. I have an open inbox so please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback on what you would like to see please?message me. Have a wonderful weekend!

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