Choosing Career Change:

I am not one to engage happily with the consumer-society we have created. It is possible to hoard however without spending any cash at all.
Are you holding onto clothes that, even if you did return to a size ten, you probably wouldn’t wear now anyhow? You may have outgrown them in your persona too. Is your email filing system a labyrinth of old projects that deep down you know you will not, and indeed need not, repeat. Is your filing system stuffed full of receipts that no longer count for tax purposes nor for any existing appliance?
Most of us indulge in a bit of ‘just in case’ hoarding. Something needs to go if it gets to the point in your wardrobe, where you are unable to see the clothes (receipts, projects…) that do still work now, because those that are redundant are in the way!
We can behave similarly in our careers. It is human nature to store food, items and ideas for hard times that might be ahead. Sometimes we use this same logic to hold onto roles, professions or contacts that no longer serve us, because we fear what the future will bring. Sometimes we hold onto old jobs way beyond their purposeful life time. 
So how is it possible to balance storing and hoarding with enough risk-taking and courage to move forward? In times of recession it is especially hard to consider making drastic career changes with job insecurities and redundancies rife. It can however get to a point where it becomes impossible to sustain a professional role that no longer serves us, not because anyone else decides that we should not be doing it, but because the psychological dissonance shows up in our bodies and we become ill with the stress of needing to quell our inner hopes and dreams in order to keep the roof over your head.
In my experience it is much better to listen to that quiet voice inside you that us warning you that it is time to move on, and take some positive action before it is forced upon you. In my experience such informed decisions enable strong choices to be made and far better outcomes secured. Better to take a tentative step into something new from a place id strength and wellbeing, than to be catapulted there with little planning and few resources. Better to choose change!

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