August Series: Overcompensating

You’re making the money.
You’re hitting the goals.
You’re doing everything they said would make you feel successful.

And yet... you're still waking up tired.

If you’ve ever found yourself saying:

🔍 What Does It Mean to Overcompensate?

Overcompensating is what high performers do when their value feels conditional.

It’s the urge to go above and beyond — not because it’s strategic, but because it feels unsafe not to.

You may be overcompensating if:

• You can’t relax unless everything is done (which it never is)

• You struggle to delegate because you don’t trust it’ll be done “right”

• You’re always “on,” even when your body is begging for a break

• You tie your worth to being needed, busy, or impressive

Overcompensating isn’t a failure.
It’s a survival strategy.
It’s what many of us were taught to do — especially those with perfectionist, people-pleasing, or high-achieving wiring.

But here’s the truth:

✨ This Month: A New Way Forward

In August, we’re unpacking the unconscious patterns that drive overcompensating — and building a better model for growth, energy, and fulfillment.

Here’s what to expect:

🗓 Week 2: Mental Wealth — How to Build a Resilience Toolkit

You’ve heard of financial capital. But what about nervous system capital? We’ll explore how to regulate your stress, build energy reserves, and stop burning through your capacity like a limited resource.

🗓 Week 3: The New Ambition — Success Without Self-Sacrifice

What if ambition didn’t require exhaustion? This week is all about redefining drive and career success in a way that includes rest, agency, and personal alignment — not just output and optics.

🗓 Week 4: The Sunday Scaries Are Telling You Something

If you dread Monday before Sunday brunch, it’s not just “vibes” — it’s a message from your nervous system. We’ll decode what the Sunday Scaries are actually trying to tell you — and how to course-correct in real time.

🛠 This Week’s Practice: Notice Where You Overcompensate

Set a timer for 2 minutes and journal on this:

No judgment. Just awareness. The goal isn’t to change everything overnight — it’s to start recognizing the patterns that quietly drain you.

💡 Final Thought: You’re Allowed to Do Less — and Still Be Enough

The most powerful professionals in this new era of work aren’t the ones working the hardest.

They’re the ones who know how to lead from a place of enoughness.
They’ve stopped performing to be seen.
They’ve started building lives that work — not just careers that look good on paper.

That’s what we’re doing this month.

Let’s stop overcompensating… and start over-claiming what’s already ours:

→ Our time
→ Our peace
→ Our power

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Alexis
Founder, Molded | Host of Overcompensated

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🎧 Want more? Listen to my podcast episode on The Mindful Hustle here.