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Busting the #1 Myth of Career Change: It’s NOT lack of know-how that is holding you back.

By Marianne Cantwell

What happens when you’ve done it all – you’ve read all the tips, you’ve gone to the workshops, you know your stuff, but you still feel like something is holding you back from changing career? Odds are that ‘something’ is a fear or limiting belief.

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How to be brave when you'd rather hide under the duvet

By Sarah Cooper

Changing career can be incredibly daunting for many people. So, when your heart is in your throat and your palms are starting to sweat, how do you go about being brave and taking action when it’s the last thing you feel like doing? More

Hitting a career crisis when you used to love what you did...

By Sonia Lakshman

What do you do when a career that’s worked for you stops working? Suddenly you find yourself - an expert in your field with many years of experience, serious credibility and a hard earned reputation – and you're miserable. It’s a bit like realizing that the person you have loved and lived with for many years is no longer the person you want to be with. You don’t want it to be that way; you desperately want to get back the early years, when things were great, when you were alive and engaged, hopeful and inspired. But you can’t. It’s over. And you are left, feeling trapped, oarless, hopeless. So what next? Career coach, Sonia Lakshman, offers some excellent guidance... More

How to make a career change safely

By Rosie Walford a...

Do you want to change career, but have a mortgage to pay, family to feed and can't risk a huge drop in salary?
Well, there is a way of changing career without taking huge financial risks: Career coach, Rosie Walford, is a huge advocate of staged careershifting and here she explains how it can be done More

When things feel that they're moving too slowly...

By Jessica McGrego...

Are you starting to get impatient and frustrated that your career change isn't happening fast enough? that you're not moving forward as quickly as you'd like? Do you see the delay in reaching your career change goal as a sign that something is wrong?

Then listen to these wise words by Jessica McGregor Johnson as to why careershifting often takes longer than we expect and why it’s usually with good reason.
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Why you really don’t need to fear failure

By Sarah Cooper

Another stunning article from career change expert, Sarah Cooper. She takes a look at 'failure' and our fear of it - often one of the biggest obstacles to career changers.

Sarah takes a look at why  the idea of failure holds such power over us and offers some practical exercises which guarantee to shift your perspective on 'failure'... More

Going travelling!

By willow on 14 June 2009 at 04:16 in ShiftLogs

It's been a long time coming, but I have accomplished a major life dream - living, working and travelling abroad. More

Taking the Plunge

By Jessica McGrego...

So, you've decided what you want to do and planned the steps you think you need to take. It's now time to take the plunge and chances are you'll find yourself hesitating. In this article, career change coach, Jessica McGregor Johnson,offers a step by step guide to identify the root of your hesitation and how to go beyond it and get into action. More

Sabotaging Success

By Sonia Lakshman

Many career shifters will say they don't have a clue what they want to do. However ften we do have clues but shoot them down before we've even given them a chance. Career coach, Sonia Lakshman, takes a closer look at the saboteur in us all. More

Be A Pioneer

By Satu Kreula

I bet you can come up with loads of reasons why your dream job is not possible or realistic, right? I've heard quite a few of these just in the past week alone. Yes, but it doesn't pay anything. Yes, but I'm too old. Yes, but it's not a proper conventional job. Yes, but what would my friends think of me. Yes, but (fill in the blanks). More

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