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The Elite Edge: Mid-Year Reset — Reclaim Your Power 💪, Position 🎯, and Plan 📈

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🔥 Elite Edge Week 44: Mid-Year Reset — Reclaim Your Power💪, Position 🎯, and Plan📈 

Half the year is gone.
And if you’re still waiting for the “right time” to get strategic about your career — this is it.

Because more time won’t change your trajectory.
But more intention will.

This week, I’m handing you the full Career Reboot Kit — built from our recent live coaching session that sparked real momentum for professionals ready to pivot, promote, or power up. Whether you’re feeling stuck, drained, or just off-track, this is how you course-correct — fast.

🔍 Step 1: Take Inventory — What’s Working, What’s Not

Don’t skip this.

Before you chase new goals, get brutally honest about what’s actually happening. Use the downloadable Mid-Year Reflection Worksheet to:

  • Celebrate your 3 biggest wins (and why they mattered)

  • Identify what held you back — mindset, support, or clarity?

  • Surface energy drains, skill gaps, and feedback you’ve ignored

  • Ask the powerful question: “If I keep doing what I’m doing, where will I be in 6 months?”

Step 2: Audit Your Career Energy

Not all stuckness is strategic. Sometimes you’re just running on the wrong kind of energy.

Use the Career Energy Audit to assess where you are — and where you need to shift:

  1. Strategic Energy – Long game vision and future focus

  2. Execution Energy – Productivity, output, and time mastery

  3. Relationship Energy – Networking, visibility, mentorship

  4. Restorative Energy – Mental clarity, boundaries, recovery

What are you over-relying on? What’s being neglected — and what’s that costing you?

Instructions:
Rate each energy type from 1 (low) to 5 (high), then reflect on which one needs your attention most.

Energy Type

Description

Your Score (1–5)

Strategic Energy

Vision, direction, long-term planning

Execution Energy

Productivity, completion, time management

Relationship Energy

Networking, mentorship, collaboration

Restorative Energy

Rest, boundaries, clarity, renewal

🚀 Step 3: Build Your H2 Playbook — Design Your Second Half

It’s not about doing more. It’s about doing what matters.

Use the H2 Playbook Template (below) to build a 3-part strategy that actually moves the needle:

  • Growth – Skills, learning, stretch roles

  • Visibility – Executive presence, thought leadership

  • Leverage – Mentors, sponsors, negotiation

Step 1: North Star

What’s the one sentence that defines your goal for the rest of 2025?

Step 2: Prioritize with the Power Move Pyramid:

Break your strategy into 3 levels:

  1. 🎯 Top Priority Move (most leverage, most impact)

  2. 🔄 Momentum Builders (2–3 key activities)

  3. 🔧 Foundational Habits (weekly systems to support your goals)

Bucket

Goal (What)

Why it Matters

First Step

Growth

Visibility

Leverage

📚What I Read This Week…

🔎 The Cities Where Entry-Level Job Seekers Are Thriving
Forget big-name cities. Mid-size markets like Minneapolis and St. Louis are outperforming when it comes to landing first jobs. A sharp reminder: career growth isn't always tied to the coasts.
👉 Read it on WSJ

🤖 OpenAI’s New Agent Can Make Spreadsheets and PowerPoints for You
Welcome to the future of white-collar automation. OpenAI is rolling out agents that can do multi-step tasks like building entire slide decks. Whether you’re excited or terrified — this is your cue to start learning how to lead alongside AI.
👉 Read it on WSJ

🎙️What I Listened to This Week… (Podcasts)

🫣 In Case You’ve Been Living Under a Rock…

🚨 The head of Astronomer.ai just resigned after being caught on camera in a very public HR scandal.
Andy Byron — CEO of the AI company — was spotted “canoodling” at a Coldplay concert with none other than the company’s Head of HR, Kristin Cabot.
Yes, HR.

It was messy. It was avoidable. And it’s your reminder that corporate optics are real — and they cut both ways.

💥 Final Thought

You don’t need a new year to start over.
You need a decision.

This is your reset point — to reconnect with your goals, realign your energy, and move with meaning. Don’t wait for clarity. Create it.

Let’s go.

You've got the Edge. Now sharpen it.

See you next week,
Deepali Vyas
Your Elite Recruiter
Doing the research so you don’t have to.

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🎯 Join the next live Career Game Plan session or book a 1:1 strategy call.
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🔥This Week’s Elite Job Drops 🔥

These openings are under the radar — not on LinkedIn, not on job boards.
I’m sharing them here first, to connect top talent with real, unposted opportunities 👇

I’m here to help — and your opportunity will reach thousands of highly engaged, top-tier professionals.


Let’s lift as we climb!🚀 

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