When Struggling to Shift Careers, Here's One Step to Take |
Do you want to shift your career in some bigger way but feel that you are too busy to do so right now? Are you waiting for the perfect moment? Well, don't be a baby and do nothing. Actually, correction, be a baby and take some baby steps.
That's because if you wait for it, wait for it, wait for the perfect moment, you could end up waiting for a long time, like forever. Life instead will deliver more messy, fruitcake batter-like moments. Life can be quite nuts—but fruitful if you take advantage of such moments, meaning take action.
Therefore, take a baby step—a very small, immediately doable action—toward that career direction of interest. You can't really say "Like baby, baby, baby, no," in the words of that Bieber song "Baby" to such an approach. That would be like saying that you can't even be a baby and can't even do anything.
The best types of baby steps are those that you know you'll do—namely, things that you'll enjoy. So start by breaking down whatever new career situation you are considering into its component mundane parts—things that you would be doing every day if you were to successfully transition. Then choose one of these parts that you might enjoy doing and just do........