A gentle, intentional, one-step-at-time approach can help you deal with the discomfort of doing things differently to change careers.
Read MoreApproaching career change with a light touch and a sense of play and not taking yourself too seriously can really help you move from a worn-out career to an exciting new one.
Read MoreI'm yet to meet or coach anyone whose career change ran straight from 'a' to 'b'.
The path to your new career will probably zig zag towards a great new place that you may never have imagined at the outset.
Read MoreChanging careers involves making many tricky decisions – when to quit, which career to do next, how to make your move.
Read MoreIf you’re navigating career change’s uncharted waters, these nine tips may help you stay afloat.
Read MoreIf you’re keen to kickstart your career change, look for people, not jobs.
Read MoreThrow yourself, heart and soul, into any transformative activity, and you're bound to be excited, exhilarated, and sometimes really scared.
Read MoreWhen your career change hits a rough patch, here's why and what to do about it.
Read MoreIf your reserves of energy and optimism for career change are headed into the red zone, here are five ways to replenish them.
Read MoreIf you’re keen to connect to like-minded career changers online, here are some places I recommend. Only two of these online recommendations are directly connected with changing careers. But any of them could connect you to sparky ideas or people or events or courses.
Read MoreCareer change epiphanies are rare. So, what if we swapped waiting for light bulb moments for seeking out things and people to spark our shift?
Read MoreAnalysis paralysis causes us to overthink everything we know that may have a bearing on decisions little and large. It drives us to take refuge in research as a substitute for action. If analysis paralysis is undermining your career change momentum, these four tips will help you stay on track.
Read MoreFor lots of us, fear of making a wrong career choice is the thing that holds us back. If your career change is stalled by fear of failure, here are four ways to get unstuck.
Read MoreAre you waiting for the world to wake up to just how clueless and ill equipped you really are? If so, impostor syndrome probably has you in its grip.
Read MoreIf your career change efforts are dogged by confidence crunching rants from your inner demons – you’re not alone.
Let these monologues go unchecked and your carefully rehearsed peak performance can fall completely flat.
Here is what I recommend to help calm your demons when they start giving you the job seeking jitters.
Read MoreHow to manage random irritations that you derail your day. Anything from spilling coffee on my new white shirt, getting cut off in traffic, arriving late to a meeting, a casual or calculated critical remark from a colleague.
Here are some of my favourite ways to stop tricky moments turning into difficult days.
Read MoreComparisons can be brilliant motivators, highlighting or reflecting your strengths and aspirations. However, if comparisons usually leave you feeling ’worse off, worse at and worse than’ pretty much everyone, perhaps its time to change the way you make them.
Read More‘Fall down 7 times stand up 8’ - this pithy Japanese proverb ‘Nana korobi ya oki’ invites us to practice resilience and self-belief. It advocates responding courageously to failure but it falls short of forecasting the outcome.
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