CHANGE
Change is good. How often have we heard or have we tried to convince ourselves that this is true. If change is so good, why can it feel so bad?
Transitions involve leaving something behind in order to move forward. Most of us dislike having to lose something—even if it might mean that we gain something different as a result. It is uncomfortable. It can be lonely. It is often scary.
Making a career transition is not for the faint of heart. This is not the time to go solo – it helps to have a guide.
Understanding the process of making a career change can be helpful in regaining our balance.
- Change is gradual. It sneaks up on us. One day we find ourselves less comfortable in our well-worn clothes. Things feel different.
- Change is liberating. It gives us the freedom to reach for something better.
- Change is disruptive. It forces us to find different ways of being.
- Change is revealing. It offers us the opportunity to reflect- to remember, retool and to rehearse for what’s next.
Change is trying on new behaviors, experimenting before knowing precisely what it is that we want to become.
Change is grieving what didn’t happen, what disappointed, what left…
Is it any wonder that people stay in work they have outgrown?