Nobody Is Coming To Tap You On The Shoulder (Do This Instead)

Breaking the Timeline by Shana Francis · Apr 9, 2026 · 17m

Nobody is coming to tap you on the shoulder, and you probably already know that. You're prepared, you've done the work, you've likely got more than enough for the next move, and yet you're still in a holding pattern, adding one more thing to the list before you go for it.

There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes with that: being ready for something that hasn't happened yet. It's like revising for an exam that never gets scheduled, because you're waiting for someone else to set the date. In this episode I give that pattern a name, credential collecting, and talk about why it looks so…