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Eve McGivern
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Elder goth, music fan, vinyl collector, cat mom, IT gal powered by curiosity, cheese and coffee. Dig mind expansion & building a world of respect and connection. Let’s talk music, tech, coffee, & the fall of Fascism.
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And then using advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques, help me reframe this fear in the most productive manner, ensuring the reframe works with how my brain is wired.

Remember the fear you discover must not be surface level, and instead something that is deep rooted in my subconscious.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
After the 10 questions, reveal what I am truly afraid of, that I am not aware of and how it is manifesting itself in my life, guiding my decisions and holding me back.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ask the 10 questions one by one, and do not just ask surface level answers that show bias, go deeper into what I am not consciously aware of.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Not very Zen, is it? So what now? Time to let something go.

The Prompt:
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In 10 questions identify what I am truly afraid of.

Find out how this fear is guiding my day to day life and decision making, and what areas in life it is holding me back.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The race to create has long been reinforced by that childhood message “Eve must learn to finish what she begins,” which framed worth as measurable completion. Constant doing becomes a safety mechanism, and is armor against the feeling of irrelevance. Goal-chasing becomes an escape.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It boils down to existential erasure, not just failing to complete tasks, but becoming "nothing." It's as if my identity evaporates when output stops. This is primed by the death of my best friend from AIDS in the early 90s when I asked "How will he be remembered?”.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
But here's the crux: especially, as I get older, I wonder what's left. What will remain of me? What impact will I have had on the world? I'm not the only one to wonder this, I'm certain.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I tend to keep really busy, so much so that I move from one thing to the next without savoring wins; gotta keep that Dopamine flowing. In that chase, I don't always "finish" things, and my brain is completely wired to Always. Keep. Moving. I have always been a Workaholic, which fits this pattern.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
When I was in first grade, my teacher (Mrs. Liebherr, any locals remember her?) wrote on my report card "Eve must learn to finish what she begins." That has bugged me for 54 years. 54 YEARS!
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now, with that out of the way, I ran an amazing AI prompt that has had me rolling things over in my head; I'll post the prompt below for you to do with as you wish. Here is what I've learned about myself, which I knew already on some level, but it kind of clicked with me yesterday.
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM