The Career Square: A 60-Second Practice for New Clients or a New Job

If you run a business from your kitchen table, or you're quietly hoping for a new role while juggling school pickups and dinner, you probably know what chasing feels like. Refreshing your email. Checking your bank app. Sending one more follow-up and hoping it doesn't sound desperate.

Chasing is exhausting, and it usually sends the opposite message from the one you want. It says: this isn't here yet, and I'm afraid it won't come.

My mentor Scott Haug shares a simple practice for this that I love because it fits into a busy mom's day. It's called the career square, and the main part takes sixty seconds.

What you need

A piece of paper and a pen. That's it. You can do this at the counter while the coffee brews.

Step by step

Draw a square in the middle of the page. Label the corners one, two, three, and four, going clockwise.

Corner 1: Your intention, in present tense. Write it as if it's happening now. "I just received a new client." "I just got the job offer." "I just made a new sale." Be precise about what you want.

Corner 2: What you'd see if it were already done. What's the evidence? An email in your inbox. A signed confirmation. A payment notification. Write the picture.

Corner 3: The feeling. This isn't forced hype or jumping up and down. Scott describes it as the quiet feeling of success that already feels normal. Calm. Settled. "Of course this happened."

Corner 4: Let it go. This is the part most of us skip. Choose a simple mantra for your path, something like "I'm in a season of aligned clients" or "I'm in a season of the right work." Then put your attention there instead of gripping the outcome.

The center: your sixty seconds. In the middle of the square, write your practice. For sixty seconds, see it, know it's yours, and let it go. Scott teaches that your inner speech and the unseen need to match, so this is where you line them up.

Then repeat daily, with fresh intentions. Don't run the same one on a loop. Today it might be three clients. Tomorrow, four. Next week, a new role. Keep it alive.

Why the "let it go" part matters

When I first started manifesting, I held on so tightly. I'd set an intention and then spend the whole day checking whether it had worked yet. That gripping was its own kind of fear.

Scott's teaching is that what you're calling in has already happened at the level of the soul. It's a memory you can feel, not something you're begging for. When you treat it that way, you stop chasing. You show up to your work more relaxed, and people can feel that.

That's been true for me. When I stopped gripping and started healing what was underneath the fear, my monthly income tripled. I share that not as a promise, but because I know how stuck it can feel before things open up.

A few tips for busy mamas

• Keep the paper where you'll see it. Tape it inside a cabinet or keep a small notebook by the coffee maker.
• Don't wait for a quiet house. Sixty seconds with a toddler on your hip still counts.
• Notice resistance. If writing "I just got a new client" makes your stomach tighten, that's useful information. There may be a wound worth looking at underneath.
• Take the inspired next step. This isn't a replacement for action. It changes the energy you take action from.

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Lindsay and David Hawkins are Scott Haug Affiliates. The career square practice in this post is Scott Haug's teaching.