How to get unstuck

Approaching 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. 

I'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.

Changing careers involves making many tricky decisions – when to quit, which career to do next, how to make your move.

If you’re navigating career change’s uncharted waters, these nine tips may help you stay afloat.

If you’re keen to kickstart your career change, look for people, not jobs.

Throw yourself, heart and soul, into any transformative activity, and you're bound to be excited, exhilarated, and sometimes really scared.

When your career change hits a rough patch, here's why and what to do about it.

If your reserves of energy and optimism for career change are headed into the red zone, here are five ways to replenish them.

If 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.

Career change epiphanies are rare. So, what if we swapped waiting for light bulb moments for seeking out things and people to spark our shift?

Gretchen Rubin’s 4 Tendencies quiz may give you an insight into how you get stuff done and how you might do things differently and better.

Analysis 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.

For 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.

Are 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.

How well you navigate your career change has lots to do with your mindset.

Your mindset is the collection of beliefs that shape your habitual ways of thinking and acting. If managing the ‘change’ in career change is giving you grief, taking a look at your mindset may help.

If 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. 

Comparisons 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.

‘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.