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The cult of intensive motherhood… runs on guilt, fear, and ambivalence.
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The strong, insidious, and sometimes unconscious cultural belief, that working mothers are bad mothers, and the pressure mothers feel to prove they aren’t, drive much of working mother guilt… – Jean-Anne Sutherland
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…it is less work and more fun to give bosses the lion’s share of glory and guilt.
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It is unreasonable to expect the impossible of yourself, yet many of us feel guilty when we do not achieve the impossible, even though we know full well it is impossible to do the impossible.
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…for the requests that stream in from everywhere, the best antidote is a blockade. Don’t let them reach you. What you haven’t heard you can’t feel guilty about not doing.
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We don’t have to feel guilty about doing nothing. And still we manage to feel guilty!
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In a Results-only Work Environment, all the negative feelings at work are gone. Not just guilt, but also envy. When people get rewarded they get rewarded for achievement, not for playing the game.
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Long lists are guilt trips. The longer the list of unfinished items, the worse you feel about it. At a certain point, you just stop looking at it because it makes you feel bad.
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The truths we hide about ourselves and our creations stay secret because we bury them in layers of guilt and shame, of fear and self-loathing.
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Research shows that trying to motivate ourselves out of fear, guilt, and shame simply doesn’t work…
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