Your capacity to embrace risk directly impacts your ability to maximize your professional growth. Risk-taking allows you to learn more about yourself, assess your strengths and weaknesses, and make connections that you had not previously made or could not see. Why should you take that step out of your comfort zone?
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So often when we consider new career opportunities, we are confronted with the negative voice of our own egos. I recently had one client deem hers “the ghost in the room.” Here’s a typical scenario: You’re changing professional roles and the voice tells you that the new team you’ll be working with doesn’t have confidence in you, or that someone else would have been more qualified to fill the position. You start to become weighed down by ideas and stories that you fabricate in your mind. You wind up creating assumptions about other people, their beliefs, and about yourself, and in the process, erode your self-confidence and convince yourself that you’re not good enough.
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It happens every year: You come up with a goal for the New Year ahead. Maybe you want to change jobs, get a promotion or restructure your team for peak performance. Giddy with excitement, you allow yourself to fantasize about how amazing your life will be when you reach these goals. Yet when it comes to thinking practically and taking steps toward your objectives, you lose steam. Pretty soon, you’re making excuses for why you just don’t have enough time to change things. Flash forward to the end of the year, and you’re far short of those ambitious goals.
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The prospect of making a career change is very exciting and can represent a new chapter in your life and yet, for most, it proves to be daunting task. It can appear like an insurmountable mountain and the trek to the top appears formidable and intimidating. While planning and setting realistic goals are an important part of making your next career move, the mind’s tendency will often overthink a situation and trap you into a state of analysis-paralysis. In order to make a change, you need to take the initial small steps along that path to reach your goal. This can manifest in multiple ways.
Commit to yourself by carving out the time necessary to explore your possibilities. Creating a structured approach to your career transition is a key success factor.
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