Why High Achievers Drift Off Course Without Ever Noticing
We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Do you experience Sunday-night dread, sleepless nights, or simply unmotivated to go the extra mile? How is it impacting your effectiveness on the job? Driven leaders push through all of it, and that's exactly how drift takes the wheel and controls how you show up each day, and more importantly how your team experiences you. I sat down with Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer who shows you how to spot drift early and take back your direction in seven minutes a day. About the Guest Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer is Founder & CEO of Bentzen Performance Partners [confirm], a Board Certified Coach and SPHR with a PhD in social psychology and an MBA. After 30 years in corporate HR, she co-authored the USA Today bestseller Now, Near, Next and wrote Human Capital Investment Strategy. Find her free drift diagnostics at dr-cynthia.com Key Takeaways • Your body tells on you first. Sunday-night dread, chronic headaches, and sleeping too much or too little are signals that something is out of alignment. • Drift hides in five areas: your physical and mental health, your relationships, your finances, your potential, and your purpose. • Drift shows up most in type-A achievers, because we're not quitters. We muddle through until we slam into something. • There are three patterns: complacency (not paying attention), avoidance (knowing and not dealing), and incremental drift (one-off moments that are actually a pattern). • Nobody is truly stuck. Time keeps moving, and the drifting years don't come back. • Organizations drift too. Strong financials can hide lagging people indicators, and AI makes betting on uniquely human strengths more important than ever. Be sure to tune in to hear Cynthia's 7-minute practice that can change everything for you. Subscribe to the show so you don't miss a single guest or powerhouse discussion: https://pod.link/shedthecorporatebitch Link in with Bernadette - https://linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas Support the show


