Navigating Career Transitions

Navigating Career Transitions: Keeping your focus on the what and not forgetting the why

Career transitions can be both exhilarating and daunting, especially if you find yourself at a crossroads in your professional life. If you are considering a change in your career path, you may be familiar with people saying you should get clear on what you want. It is definitely a must. We tend to focus on what we not want and guess what? Focussing on what you don't want cannot bring you the clarity of which direction you should go. Surely it is a good start to get on an elimination process but this can easily become a difficult and quite frankly dull task.

Focussing on your strengths, on things that makes you energised, on your skills and fields of interest is usually the best way as it is a positive and takes you to a world of new possibilities. Allow yourself to think about all possibilities available to you.

But this blog post is about the why. Why are you changing your career? There could be a number a reasons why and they are all leading you to where you are today.

So why do you need the WHY? While focussing on the what and getting the work done during a career transition, it is very easy for us to become complacent. for those little gremlins of doubt to start creep in, telling us all sorts of things to convince us that the best thing to do is to be where we are and not do a single thing!

And believe me, a career change takes months and this will eventually come up one way or another. So that is when the WHY needs to come in. Remind yourself why you are doing this in the first place, what has led you to be feeling so stuck in your career. Remember how it feels and what would be the prospect of having to live the rest of your life thinking "What if", "If only"?

A good tip is to write down a word, a sentence, something that reminds you of your why and place it somewhere you can see it to keep the why working to focus on you on the what.

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