Career Coaching: Fearful?

Career Coaching: Fearful?

So, during the pandemic, you have discovered you don’t like your job. So, what’s keeping you there?

It will be one of two things: Firstly you may not know what’s next? Secondly, you are fearful of change? Possibly it is a combination of both!

That leaves you stuck — what now?

Career Coaching: Fearful?

Fear is a natural response to change – the human brain has a natural negativity bias and thus we fill the unknown with fearful, if not catastrophic thinking. We can only easily envisage frightening things happing in the future because if we make a change, we have no previous experience to reference positive things from

However, if you take yourself back to the last time you were considering a big change in your life – just remember how frightened you were then. Next, take yourself forward on that same timeline to after you had actioned that change. Remember how you felt: Did it go well? Or, if it went badly, how did you cope?

If you are reading this blog then I’m guessing that you survived – that means that whether it was a good decision where you felt pleasure as a result, or, whether the decision was erroneous, you have evidence that you can make good a difficult situation and take the lessons from it…

Bringing yourself back to the here and now, if you are not enjoying your role – do you feel more like you could manage change and manage change well?

Just saying