# rachelmburr.com


## Posts

- [December: The Quiet Space Where Truth Finally Speaks](https://rachelmburr.com/december-the-quiet-space-where-truth-finally-speaks/): December feels like a threshold, fast and slow at once. Beneath the deadlines and holiday noise, there’s a quiet invitation to reflect with intention, not as a checklist, but as an honest pause to hear what the year has been trying to teach you. Real growth is rarely a clean upgrade, it’s messy, clarifying, and often emotional. When planning for the year ahead starts from truth and alignment, goals stop feeling like obligations and become momentum.
- [You Do Not “Find” Your Path—You Build It: The Empowering Truth About Personal Transformation](https://rachelmburr.com/you-do-not-find-your-pathyou-build-it/): Ever get the feeling you’re supposed to be somewhere or doing something else, but you just don’t know what it is? You’re not alone. We often hear about people “finding their path” as if it were some sort of cosmic Easter egg hunt. But what if I told you there’s a more empowering way to look at it? What if I told you don’t “find” your path, you build it? How empowering and scary is THAT?!
- [Winning the Skills Race: We Are More Than the Sum of Our Parts](https://rachelmburr.com/winning-the-skills-race/): Skills-based hiring is increasingly common. Companies identify the skills required for a job, and use that skills inventory to evaluate candidates, rather than rely on specific college degrees or possibly any degree at all. A skills-based approach has the potential to be a practical strategy, but can it build individual skills into a winning combination?
- [No Thanks, I’m Just Like Everybody Else: Cookie Cutters Make Good Cookies, Not Strong Leaders](https://rachelmburr.com/writing-a-book-is-the-most-polite-identity-crisis-youll-ever-have/): Leadership development is not a cookie cutter assembly line. We each bring a different combination of strengths, weaknesses, skills, talents, and aspirations to our leadership. When we try to push leaders through a cookie-cutter development program, we do not prepare them to successfully leverage their core strengths to lead through a dynamic, unpredictable landscape.

## Pages

- [Down and Dirty](https://rachelmburr.com/down-and-dirty/)
- [Butterfly Goo Book](https://rachelmburr.com/butterfly-goo-book/)
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