Looking for more fulfillment from your career? If so, there might be one tool at your disposal that you’re completely ignoring… and it’s costing you big time! Enter: the career pivot.
“So, what exactly is a career pivot?”
A career pivot is a smaller shift, designed to align your career to the things that are important to you. Instead of starting a completely new career path, pivots are about “side-steps”, or making tweaks within the world you already know…
Read MoreDebating whether you should stay at your current company, or go somewhere new? Maybe you have a counter-offer from your organization, hoping to keep you where you’re planted, but not sure if you should take it? Or maybe you’ve taken the new job, but are debating if you should go back to your old comfy one? If so…read on.
Read MoreThere are all kinds of fears that stop people from working with a career coach. Fears about cost, fears about the time investment, and even fears that doing the work won’t change anything. But do you want to know the number one fear that I’ve heard from clients over my last 5.5 years as a career coach for high achievers?
Fear that it will work.
Now, this may seem counterintuitive, but hear me out…
Read MoreNot all decisions are created equal. Sometimes we make great decisions that are 100% in our best interests, and other times we make short-sighted choices that don’t pan out.
There are two main motivations for decisions, and they often determine whether your choice ends up being a success or not. They are TOWARDS choices and AWAY FROM choices…
Read MoreThere are many benefits to being a high achiever, but today, I wanted to share about the “curse of the high achiever”. This is the inadvertent flip-side of the success this group enjoys, and as a coach who has worked with overachievers for the last 5+ years, it’s something that I’ve become very familiar with. It might even be happening to you without your knowledge!
If you’ve ever asked yourself:
“How did I end up in this industry?”
“Do I even like my job, or am I just good at it?”
“Is this the work that I really want to do long term?”
You might be struggling with this.
Read MoreOne of the most challenging elements of career concerns is that they can feel so incredibly isolating. In my job as a career fulfillment coach, I can’t tell you how often I hear this sentiment from people!
My clients often feel like they’re broken. Like everyone else has their career “figured out”, and they’re the only one feeling the deep down whisper of doubt at work. They’ll often say things like, “What’s wrong with me?! This is the career that I always thought I wanted. Why don’t I feel happier at work like everyone else?”
Here’s the thing, though: it’s not just you.
Read MoreHave you heard of the concept of stepping stone jobs before? If you’ve been feeling so burned out in your current role that it feels impossible to interview elsewhere or meaningfully consider what you want out of your next step, it might be worth considering one of these!
Read MoreI often hear from people who are agonizing about their career decisions, stuck in analysis paralysis and overwhelmed about what to do. They worry about making the right choice, which often leads to them making no choice. It’s a super overwhelming place to be.
As a result, I wanted to share some helpful advice for those of you stuck in the midst of a career choice.
Read MoreAre you suffering from this common mistake while trying to find your career calling?
Taking every online quiz you can find…
Reading all the self-help books available at your local library…
Polling your friends to gather their feedback on what job you should be doing…
Maybe even going back to grad school…
Collecting and collecting and collecting information and inputs about how to feel more fulfilled at work, but not actually doing anything about it…
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