You’re drowning in your commitments. Working long into the night each day. Sacrificing weekends.

It’s all too much but you keep going.

You don’t stop.

You can’t stop, you tell yourself.

I don’t want to let anybody down.

Well I’m here to tell you otherwise

Not only that you can.

I’m here to tell you that you must.

“I can’t let anyone down’ may seem like an innocuous noble thought.

But this thought is holding you back in your career and putting your health at risk.

And as long as you keep thinking it, and holding yourself to its standard, things will never change.

In episode 110 of Legal Imposters I help you change all of that by doing the one thing you cannot fathom doing: letting people down.

I warn you. It’s going to be uncomfortable. It’s going to feel terrible. That, my friend, is the point!

When you intentionally let someone down the way I teach you to in this episode, two things are going to happen:

First, you’ll get an immediate moment of respite from the overworking you’re doing right now

Second, you’ll break the cycle of over-committing yourself and learn to say yest without overcommitting.

The ability to say yes without overcommitting yourself to the point of burnout is a skill you need to develop now. The sooner you master it the faster you’ll progress to the next level and the easier it’ll be to sustain that progress when you get there.

P.S. If you’re a mid to senior level black lawyer and you want to progress in the next 6 to 12 months, join Be The First where I’ll teach you how to take control of your time so you stop overcommitting yourself and learn to progress without the risk of burnout. Enrolment for January 2026 opens in December so now’s the time to get ready. For details of what the coaching programme does and how much it costs, visit BE THE FIRST Coaching