You Don't Have to Get It Right, Just Get It Going
Our brains will consider the idea of making a career change at any time our career path conflicts with our values.
We may find our work boring and feel unfulfilled in our current work. We want to make a better impact and feel like we are part of something.
We may wish to have more or need less financial stability and need more time to take care of ourselves and our families. The current pandemic will have allowed many people to reassess values such as family and finances more effectively.
Once conflict shows up, our thoughts will move towards solving the problem. In our attempts to figure out what to do next, like me in the past, we may look at the following options:
1. Take assessments or personality tests (not always the solution but can be helpful in some contexts!)
2. Look at job boards daily
3. Talk the situation over with family and friends
4. Consider what the ideal situation would look like?
5. Assess the financial realities of making a change.
By the time your brain has had a chance to review it all, you get stuck. You still don't know what you want to do so you're still unhappy. You are now in the depths of frustration about not making purpose-driven progress.
Does this resonate?
Career changes are complicated by nature but not impossible occurrences for most of us. There are many skilled, capable and resourceful people who feel overwhelmed by the process. I know how frustrating it is to feel stuck.
Here are two simple questions I ask myself when I spiral into complicating things, and I need to find a starting point.
What could you do today to help you get moving?
What would it take for you to feel motivated and do meaningful work?
