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Hi friend,

It’s officially review season, the corporate Hunger Games disguised as “growth conversations.”

Everyone’s pretending it’s fine, but the air hums like a fluorescent light about to burn out.

Slack feels weirdly polite.

You’re hydrating like it’s a sport and wondering if your “areas for development” will include breathing wrong.

Here’s the truth:

Performance reviews don’t just rate work.

They trigger every survival circuit we've got.

Because under all the “constructive feedback,” your brain hears: Am I safe? Am I enough?

The Focal Point Move

When the review conversation shifts to “growth areas” and the brain does what all brains do, scan for signs of failure, that’s your cue to pause.

Pick one boring object in the room.
A chipped mug, that one weird ceiling tile, the light that blinks like it’s seen too much.

Let your eyes rest there for three slow seconds.
Take a quiet breath while you do.

That’s your focal point, a visual anchor that tells your body:
“I’m not in danger. I’m just in a meeting. This will soon be over.”

Because when the language of feedback starts to feel personal, it’s easy to forget that your worth isn’t up for review.

This isn’t zoning out.
It’s zoning in on your calm, your clarity, and your right to stay whole.

When we’re under pressure, our attention gets hijacked. Eyes dart, breath shortens, and the brain starts scanning for danger, even if it’s just “growth areas” in disguise.

A focal point breaks that loop.

When our eyes settle, the body gets the message: I’m not in danger, I’m being asked a question.

That one shift tells the nervous system to stand down and can help keep us from spiraling.

It’s about staying connected to ourselves in a space designed to dissect our performance.

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s Broaden-and-Build Theory suggests that even tiny moments of calm or curiosity can widen your mental bandwidth and, over time, build resilience.

Click HERE to Download. (It will sneak into your Downloads folder.)

We turned this week’s Tiny Rebellion into free phone wallpaper so the next time you’re gearing up for a review (or your brain time-travels into imaginary feedback scenarios), your lock screen can be a visual anchor that reminds you reviews don’t equal worth.

Here are some tiny rebellions to help you decode dread instead of drowning in it.

📝 Try: The To-Don’t List™ a daily, “not today.” Small pad, big exhale.

🕯️ Light: More Exhale, Less Email Candle, smells like quitting on time.

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What’s the nonsense your brain starts whispering during performance reviews?

“Act normal.”
“This is fine.”
“Say thank you, even if it hurts a little.”

Hit reply and tell us your brain’s most unhelpful feedback-season one-liner.
We read every single one. No scorecard, just solidarity.

Try to keep your sanity. Take a deep breath, find your ceiling tile, and remember:

The only metric that really matters is that you made it out with your soul (mostly) intact and remembered you’re a badass, not a performance rating.