I’ve always appreciated the thoughtful insights in this community. For anyone who’s taken time away from work to focus on personal priorities…what strategies or mindsets helped you successfully reengage with your career?

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Have a goal or end in mind. Are you trying to learn something? Travel somewhere? Think about how the gap will look if you tell a story with it.

If you’re asking how to get back in the game though, then yeah, think about how you can spin your time away and into a story that makes you a better worker.

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