When I Start to Get Overwhelmed With Work, I Look at This Postcard of EarthOne founder shares what helps her keep things in perspective.

Early in my career, I was easily overwhelmed. I overextended myself, and soon my responsibilities and commitments and ambitions piled up into this mass that felt unfathomably large — until, one day, my manager gave me something that is still on the bulletin board over my desk 26 years later, even as I've now transformed my career: It's a postcard picture of Earth.

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