Tags: life change

When we start to re-engage with our passions and values it is likely that this will start to spill over into other areas of our lives too. If your career change has morphed into a grander life overhaul, here are some tips to help you mitigate overwhelm!

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In this article, the author shares his experience and lessons from taking a huge leap of faith. He used to work in American politics and knew he had to leave that field. Not only did he choose to quit the sector, but also he returned back to full time education, got married, and moved to a town where he knew nobody! 

This kind of major change may not work for everybody, but his experience reveals tips and lessons that all career changers will find useful. Visit the article to find out more; in summary his six tips for success at change are:

1. Read widely
2. Plan
3. Have patience
4. Timing is important
5. Have Self-Discipline to follow through
6. Use your community to help

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Now is a great time to decide how you want to fill your time and your life next year.

I’ve been scouting around online looking at advice and tools for yearly planning, and here are seven ideas for you to start with...

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I’ve been thinking about dream career changes – and actually, a lot of the time when I let my mind wander to what could be, it becomes more than just the job itself.  Often a ‘career change’ can be more like a life change – it can mean relocating, working in a different way (eg freelance rather than employed by a company), focusing more on friends/family/hobbies, and creating a different way of living your life. Not only can the job itself be an important part of the change, but how about how you get to work? To have no more long hours of commuting on tubes and crowded suburban trains is a huge lifestyle change. Or, if you relocate to another place, your commute could be windsurfing to work (oh yes, there is a guy in Brighton who does this!)

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This week I’ll be sharing inspiring articles with you to help you on your way to career change, rather than examples of other peoples changes.  I hope they will help you see things differently, think about careers and choices differently, and get you feeling revved up to get the career and life you really want.

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