Dr Ruth Gotian

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This Working Life · Is being good at your job holding you back? · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

Would anyone notice if you were not in the room?

If the answer is no, you don't need to be there.

And then I said to her, with these other committees, does this help you or not get closer to your goals?

And after we figured out what her goals were, she said, This has nothing to do with my goals.

I said, Then you don't need to do it.

I said, but what you do need to do is help the person who asked, because they need to fill that seat of that committee.

And you may not do it for your own reasons, but you should recommend one or two people.

Who for them it would be a benefit because it would help them get closer to their goal.

Now you're helping other people develop and grow.

Now, if you do need to be on the committee, you need to put some boundaries around it.

I can be on one committee, not two committees.

I can dedicate

10 hours a month starting in this week, but I have to take some of these other things off my plate.

What should I take off my plate?

And again, you want to be very specific about that.

Right?

I think we all want to feel needed, but we don't want to feel

used.

And there's a difference.

Right.

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