Have you ever had that gut-feeling that something’s off at work? You’re good at your job, but it just doesn’t feel good enough? In this episode, I share the one powerful concept that’s helped hundreds of my clients feel more alive, energised, and fulfilled in their careers—superpowers.

Not the comic-book kind, but those unique things you do so effortlessly and joyfully that time disappears.

Together, we’ll explore:

1. What superpowers actually are (and how to spot yours)
2. Three ways to uncover your own hidden brilliance
3. Simple, real-life tweaks to build joy into your workday
4. Why using your superpowers more often leads to promotions, pay rises, and feeling less drained at home

And yes, there’s a free tool to help you begin.

📥 Download the Superpower Starter Worksheet

👉 https://midlifeunstuck.activehosted.com/f/17

Let’s design a workday (and a work life) that actually feels like you.

Have you ever sat at your desk wondering, is this really it?

You're good at your job, but it doesn't feel good enough, something's missing.

What if I told you there was one thing?

Just one thing that you can do over the next 12 months that has

been proven in research to increase your work life satisfaction?

What psychologists call happiness, it's not a promotion, it's not a pay rise.

It's this uncovering and using your three or four unique superpowers daily.

If you've been here for a while, you know, I bang on about superpowers a

lot because they are the corner pieces of every single Happy Work blueprint

I've ever helped any client to create.

Today I'd like to show you exactly how to identify yours, how to design them into

your workday, and how that seemingly teeny tiny shift can ripple joy into not just

your work life, but your entire life.

Let's dive in.

For some of us, some of the time, work can feel like something we survive, not

something we truly, madly deeply enjoy.

But what if you could spend your days doing activities that you enjoy,

activities that you are brilliant at, and get well paid for it.

That's not a fantasy.

It's what happens when you start intentionally using your superpowers,

those unique strengths, ultra, ultra strengths that give you energy in your

body, that light you up intellectually and make a real impact for others.

Today we're talking about how to find them, how to use them, and how to

design just a little more joy, 5%, 10%, maybe even 20% into every workday.

So let's start with what is a superpower?

I define a superpower.

As something that people often come to you for help with, you do it

better, faster, and lighter than most people you know, and when you

do it, it gifts you a jolt of energy.

It's the opposite of draining activities.

Now when you use a superpower, it gives you a jolt of satisfaction.

A little dopamine hit like you are pointing your skills and talents at

something meaningful to you personally.

And it's something that you enjoy doing so much that you probably already do

it for free in your life beyond work.

And if someone promised you you could do it every single day at work, you'd

probably accept a lower salary, happily.

And here's the most important part.

Using your superpowers consistently has been shown to increase happiness and

meaning in work, and it reduces sadness, dullness and chronic boredom in work.

In my recent midlife work life satisfaction study, 100% of the

happiest, 1% of participants reported that they clearly understood and had

become known for the three or four things that they do uniquely well.

So here are three practical ways to uncover yours.

Number one, the energy audit.

Look back on your last week.

When were you doing something that your body responded really positively to?

What tasks made you lose time?

What gave you that internal yes feeling?

Most of us feel it somewhere central in our bodies.

For me, it's in my lower belly.

For others, it's around the heart or the bottom of the throat.

So in my situation, the first time I noticed this was a celebratory

girls weekend in the French Alps, my friends were exhausted

by my deep probing questions.

Lucia give us a break.

They moaned, but I felt alive.

I felt like I couldn't wait to hear their answers.

I was brimming with curiosity to understand what makes them tick, even

if it didn't feel socially acceptable.

That's a superpower.

That's one of my superpowers asking one more question than is socially acceptable

to try to understand an important behavior or pattern at a deeper level.

Believe me.

Not everyone enjoys it, but it lights me up.

When was the last time you felt that electric at work or beyond?

Number two, pattern tracking.

Asked yourself, what have people complimented me on repeatedly

throughout my lifetime in work and beyond work in all the roles I've

held over the course of my lifetime.

What was I doing in moments when I felt pride, confident,

or truly seen and appreciated?

What was I doing when I was off task, but felt highly engaged even as a child?

Then dig into how those activities made you feel.

Here's an example.

One of my clients realized she was energized by convincing resistant

executives to adopt change.

Long days of persuading, cajoling, influencing towards

the very best decision for all.

She came home buzzing with satisfaction and energy from the process and

from making tiny steps of progress.

That's one of her superpowers.

Number three, ask others.

You might be surprised by what they say.

Ask a few trusted friends or colleagues or siblings.

What do you think I do better than most?

What would you call my thing?

But then go deeper.

Which of those do you actually love, love, love doing?

I have a client who could make any space feel warm and inviting

within a couple of minutes and just with a few personal touches.

Her gift, her superpower is creating emotional comfort

through visual and touching cues.

But she wasn't using it at work yet.

The joy is in realizing these powers are already within you.

These are not skills you need to learn or invest time in getting better at.

You've been mostly practicing them for years and decades, often since

childhood, sometimes in work, almost always outside of work.

Just for fun.

You don't need to get paid to use your superpowers, but that's an added bonus.

I didn't notice it at first, but when a whole range of clients reported back

to me within six months of us working together, that they had received a

promotion, a pay rise, or an invitation to move companies and get paid more,

I began to see the connection between using your superpowers very regularly

in work and getting paid more.

So there's really no downside.

If you need more help with uncovering your superpowers, I'll include a

free resource from the never too Old, never too Late community, and

I call it the Superpower Starter.

It's a little worksheet to make the pattern finding easier for you.

Download it from the episode notes.

So once you've spotted a few superpowers, now what?

You design deliberately, design your workday around them,

just 5% or 10% more at first.

Here's how to go about doing that.

Book Superpowered Time.

Schedule, for example, 30 minutes for a task that uses

just one of your superpowers.

Block it out completely.

Do the work.

Then notice how much you get done in that short period of time.

Notice where you feel the satisfaction in your body and in your brain.

Notice how great it feels to enjoy some control over your satisfaction levels.

Next, say yes to projects that use these unique talents.

When new opportunities come your way.

Ask will this let me use a superpower, and if so, which one?

Even tiny alignments add up.

And over time you naturally evolve towards a role that feels

really good and way more like you.

Finally, micro moments give major shifts.

You don't need hours, although, that's really nice.

To start with pick one superpower at the beginning of the day and see how you

can play around with it or experiment with it, bringing it with you to that

frustrating meeting, that dull interaction or that very normal segment of your week.

It's the deliberateness that most of my clients get really attached to.

It feels like freedom and control wrapped up into one SUPERPOWERED bundle.

And here's what's really wild.

When you use your superpowers at work, it changes how you show up everywhere else.

You come home from work less drained with more energy for your loved ones,

so you can be more generous with your time and energy, or you can be

more selfish if that's your thing.

Maybe going to the gym after work has felt totally impossible for you for a while.

When you find yourself using your superpowers 10 to 20% more during

your workday, you get to gift yourself 15 to 20% more energy to do

whatever your little heart desires.

Your home life benefits because you're not so drained by your work.

I warn you, this can become a little addictive in a good way.

So here's your one thing that will bring you more joy in the next 12 months.

Identify your three or four unique superpowers.

Design just a few more minutes of them into each and every work day.

Track how you feel.

I guarantee you will notice a shift.

And if you want help getting started, download the free superpower starter

guide from the episode notes.

It's packed with prompts and patterns and exercises to spark your curiosity.

The world needs, the results and the impact that your superpowers deliver,

and your team and loved ones need to see you at your best more often, and

you need your precious energy to stay fit, sane, and energized for yourself

and for everyone you care about.

Here's to a superpower, 12 months ahead.