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4 May 2025

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Hey friend,

I wanted to share the main source of stress in my work right now. Because it's not the project. The updating of reports. The finances. It's the fear of being disliked, thought badly of, seeming incompetent or not as as A-player. It's the interpersonal relationships that are hard. As much as we focus on the technical, it's the emotional that is the true difficulty.

Some Thoughts

The truth is that you become passionate about things you are good at. Perhaps a childhood sport, a particular subject at school, or a career. So the truth is that to get more passionate, get more competent. Do more reps. Improve a bit. Bit by bit. You will end up somehow, almost magically, being more passionate about more things.

What you will learn this week:

☀️ Why is there a success loop anyway?

🌍 Why the success loop works

🍄 Applying the winning loop to your career

I Figured out the Success Loop

So I figured out the success loop.

It took me a while, but I finally got it.

Let me give it to you right up front:

Have an idea. Create a simple version. Test it. Fail. Revise. Restart.

Simple right?

But what do most people do (myself included)?

Have an idea. Think about it forever. Research it at length. Create a “perfect” product. Launch (and likely fail).

See the difference? The first process—the Success Loop—is like a hyper-car. It’s fast. It’s agile. It doesn’t dawdle.

The second? It’s like trying to drive cross-country in a tank. It’s slow, clunky, and far too invested in defending itself from imagined threats. It grinds forward cautiously, terrified of making mistakes, only to stall out when things don’t go perfectly.

I learned this the hard way...

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You might enjoy this:

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The AI implementation is working in the Entry Project Management app. (Plus a bit of fun with the task 😂)

Postscript

Are you coping? Genuinely? Or do you feel as if your life and work is spiraling? Or that you are just about hanging on month-by-month. I'm no stranger to that. I feel it often. If there's anything I can do to help or you just want to chat, let me know. 💛

Until next time,

Jonathan (The Effective Project Manager)

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