The Clear Focus Journal
Essays on clarity, values and momentum.
Short, practical reads from Sarah Bernstein — executive coach and founder of Inspire to Lead Solutions — on doing the inner work that makes outer goals stick.
Goal setting
How to set career goals you'll actually keep
Most career goals fail because they start with the calendar, not the person. Here's a goal-setting method that starts with reflection and ends with a plan you can hold yourself to.
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Values
How to identify your core values (a practical card-sort method)
Your values are the filter every good decision passes through. A step-by-step exercise to find the five values that actually run your choices — not the ones you wish did.
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Career clarity
Feeling stuck in your career? Start with the constraint, not the exit
Being stuck is rarely a motivation problem. It's usually an unnamed constraint. How to find the false limit underneath the frustration — and what to do with it.
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