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Vol. 1 · Issue 002
Monday, June 22, 2026
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| Pivot With Purpose · Career strategy · Macro clarity · MyrtusHQ |
Macro
Focus
Board Table
Recharge
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This week in The Sweet Spot
Let’s get that fresh-start feeling, the energy you have at the start line of a race.
Finding your sweet spot is not about doing everything. This week we look at what to start, stop, and continue. While making space for what you actually want, and where you want to spend your energy.
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This week's compass
Set a timer for 55 minutes. Grab a pen and a sheet of paper, make three columns, Start, Stop, and Continue and brain dump onto the page. Use the Continue column to reflect on what went right in the first half of the year.
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Section 01
The Sweet Spot
Most career advice ignores the economy. We start with the world, then work inward.
Your career does not move in a vacuum. The macro cycle is always speaking: which sectors are hiring, where capital is moving, which rules are shifting, where AI is creating roles as fast as it retires them. The professionals who hear it early are the ones who move before the crowd arrives.
So this week, read the signal. Open the news with one question in mind: what is already in motion that runs in the same direction as where I want to go?
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Pick 5 trends you are seeing unfold in the news that will carry momentum with your career objectives.
You are not predicting the future. You are noticing what is already happening and asking which currents you could ride into the second half of the year. Keep your five somewhere you can see them; you will use them again below.
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Section 02
The 1–2 Pomodoro Field Guide
One or two focused blocks, then stop.
A pomodoro here is one focused work block of 55 minutes, followed by a short break. This week, do one or two no more. The magic is not the timer. The magic is deciding what "done for now" looks like before you begin, and showing up again the next week. Use these five steps to map your sweet spot, the place where what you love, what you do well, and where demand is growing all meet.
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Name what you love circle one
Write the parts of your work you would still do if no one paid you. This is the first circle of your sweet spot.
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Name what you do exceptionally well circle two
Your real, transferable strengths, the things people already come to you for. They travel into more sectors than you think.
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Name where demand is growing circle three
Pull from the five trends you picked in Section 01. Where is genuine, structural momentum building? This is the third circle.
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Find the overlap
Where do all three meet? That intersection is your sweet spot. Circle it. Everything outside it is noise for now and naming the noise is how you finally focus.
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Take the one visible step
Turn the overlap into a single physical action this week. Not "pivot into a growing sector" → "message one person already working in it."
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The win is not exhaustion. The win is staying consistent and building healthy habits that compound over time.
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Section 03
AI That Helps
Use AI as a thinking partner, not a magic machine.
AI is most useful when you give it a role and a boundary. This week, look at your sweet spot and ask two things: what here can AI help me think through, and who at my table can help me with the rest?
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✦ AI Prompt of the Week
"I am trying to make progress on [your focus area]. I feel stuck because [what feels overwhelming]. Here are the macro trends I am tracking: [your five trends]. Help me find where my strengths intersect with one of them. Tell me what to do first, what I can skip for now, and what 'good enough for today' looks like. Keep every step small, specific, and realistic and suggest the kind of person I should add to my network to reach this goal."
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Use AI to make the work smaller, not to outsource the thinking. A good response should make the next step feel clearer, and more possible than it did five minutes ago.
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Section 04
Make It Doable
Build the table that gets you to the next level.
You are the CEO of your career, and no CEO runs the company alone, they build a board. Sometimes the hardest thing to admit is that you cannot reach the next level by yourself. So look at your table: who is already sitting at it, and which seats are still empty?
To reach the goal you set for the second half of the year, you likely need some version of these five seats filled.
SEAT 01
The Mentor — has already walked the path you are on, and can tell you where the potholes are. |
SEAT 02
The Connector — opens doors and makes the introductions you cannot make for yourself. |
SEAT 03
The Expert — teaches you the new skill the next chapter requires. |
SEAT 04
The Truth-Teller — grounds you and says the thing you do not want to hear. |
SEAT 05
The Sponsor — advocates for you in the rooms you are not in yet. |
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Pick 1–3 people to connect or reconnect with who can help you reach your goal.
Go through your contacts and your social feeds. Make sure the people who can support you through the second half of the year actually know what you are working toward.
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The table is not built once. It is tended, season after season.
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Section 05
Recharge
You cannot build a life you actually want while treating yourself like a machine.
If you are job searching, building, learning, caregiving, recovering, or trying to start over, your nervous system is part of the work. You do not need to earn rest after burnout. You need enough rest to make wise decisions.
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☀ The 20-Minute Reset
If the weather allows, sit outside, step onto a balcony, or open a window and just listen to the sounds.
Bring tea, coffee, water, or nothing. Then ask yourself one question:
Close your eyes and imagine it is Friday. What are you genuinely glad you achieved this week?
Do not force the answer. Be patient. Then write down one sentence. That sentence is your compass for the week.
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Your Practice
One Small Assignment
| 01 Confirm the 5 macro trends you will follow for the next six months |
| 02 Map your sweet spot, where love, skill, and demand overlap |
| 03 Build your table, name who fills each seat, and reach out to 1–3 |
| 04 Use AI to break down one stuck point |
| 05 Take one real recharge break |
That is enough.
You are not behind. You are learning to read what is coming and moving before the crowd.
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Closing Note
Myrtus is for people building a grounded next chapter. Not hustle for the sake of hustle. Not wellness as decoration. Not productivity that ignores real life. Just clear thinking, useful tools, steady work, and enough sky to hear yourself again.
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