“I was passed over for a promotion I'd worked toward for two years. Someone with less experience but a louder voice got it instead. I keep replaying every meeting wondering what I should have done differently, and I can't tell any more whether I should stay and prove something or just start looking elsewhere.”
Meera had been the backbone of her product team for two years — every critical sprint, every firefight, she delivered. When the VP role opened, she assumed competence spoke for itself.
That doorway — stay and prove something or flee — is the one you're standing in right now. Here's what nishkama karma changes: you stop treating the promotion as retroactive validation of two years of work. Those two years already happened.
Each counsel also arrives with concrete next steps and one question to sit with.