Coaching practices for How to Work a Regular Job as a Former Celebrity

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• My whole life has narrowed down to work and then collapsing in front of a screen
• My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted
• I walk straight from my laptop to the dinner table still in work-head, snapping at people and only half there
• I technically stop working but my mind never clocks out
• I keep telling myself I’ll get to my own work once everything else is handled, and "once everything else is handled" never comes

Practices that may help

1. Protect time for deep play
   Maintain a serious non-work interest that demands real skill and attention.
   Deliberate Rest
2. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
   Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
3. Follow shutdown with a clear transition activity
   Immediately after the shutdown phrase, do something non-work-related to mark the transition.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
4. Use a shutdown ritual
   End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
   Deep Work, Made Practical
5. Work within a fixed daily window rather than "when inspired"
   Most prolific creators worked on strict schedules, not when they felt like it.
   Daily Rituals: How Creative People Structure Their Days
6. Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
   When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
7. Listen for what isn’t in the job description
   Focus on the texture of day-to-day work, not the official narrative.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
8. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
   Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
9. Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
   Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
   Identity Priming, Made Practical
10. Outsource personal and business tasks with a virtual assistant
    Hand off any recurring task a written process can describe to a skilled assistant.
    Lifestyle Design, Made Practical

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