What if the thing you keep trying to fix about your career isn’t actually a flaw?

We spend a lot of time trying to correct the parts of ourselves that don’t fit neatly into what a successful career is supposed to look like.

Pick a lane. Go deep. Become known for one thing. Stay focused.

But what if that’s just not how you work?

What if once you’ve figured something out, your attention naturally starts moving toward the next thing? One project leads to another, sometimes seemingly unrelated, and suddenly your career makes perfect sense to you but looks slightly confusing to everyone else.

I’ve never called myself scattered. It’s more like a wandering professional eye. I start one thing, another idea sparks, and before I know it I’m running three or four projects at once instead of one. To be clear, I finish what I start. I just rarely seem to want only one thing going at a time.

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From the outside, in recent years, it can look like I’ve spent my career jumping from one thing to the next. Or maybe, that’s just how I feel.

I do have one exception though: I spent seventeen years at Donna Karan. If I really couldn’t stay interested in one thing, how did I stay in one place for that long?

Looking back, I realize that Donna Karan was never one thing for seventeen years. The work kept changing. PR became communications. Digital showed up. Social media changed everything. I got to keep finding new rooms without leaving the building. I never got bored.

But still, I wondered why I lack an attention span. So I asked Claude to read my natal chart. And what came back was proof that the restlessness was never the problem.

Now, I’m not suggesting anyone make career decisions based on their birth chart. But sometimes you need a different lens to see something about yourself that’s been sitting in plain sight.

What I found made my entire career make more sense.