This week we're continuing our A Collection of Lovely Things series with a theme of Blue: Hopes, Dreams & Aspirations, and this week's room is a little different.

The Blue room has comfy couches, table space, journals, notebooks, whiteboards. It's a space for dreaming. And more importantly, it's a space with a microphone in the center because this week we're talking about something rarely discussed among highly accomplished women.

Accomplishment Loneliness.

Not platitudes about goal setting. Not a vision board exercise. The real, lived experience of what it feels like to accomplish much and still feel completely alone in it.

In this episode, the three faces of Accomplishment Loneliness:

1. The Loneliness of Outpacing Your Circle
2. The Loneliness of the Summit
3. The Loneliness of Not Being Able to Celebrate Fully

Your missions this week:

• Find the part of the good thing you're willing to share — and share it with someone
• If you reach a summit and it's not what you expected, find the emotion you can name and share that instead
• Communicate your expectations of celebration clearly and unequivocally — no hinting, no hoping
• Ask yourself honestly: am I doing this for the love of the thing, or for the applause?

Accomplishment Loneliness is real. It's common. It's survivable. Say the quiet parts out loud.

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Until next time.

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