The High Price Of Your Career Choices

Never say “I don’t have a choice,” or “I am trapped” or surrender to that feeling. Both statements, if followed, are career choices that will cost you a high price. Think you have no choice? Think again.

What Your Responses Reveal About You

Fear Of The Unknown

Staying where you are is preferring the “devil you know” over jumping to unknown waters. It’s a desire to be in control, but it’s a dirty mind-trick that turns you into a slave to the status quo. What if you actually liked the new job, new employer or unknown waters you’d enter?

Fear Of Failure

You know how to do your job where you are, so it feels natural to stay because you know what it takes to get approval for your work. If you were promoted, switched departments or even your career, you wouldn’t have the assurance. That can feel scary.

Think back about the time when you started your current job. Did you have any guarantees you would succeed? Of course not. There are no such guarantees in life. What if you never tried making a change? How would that make you feel? And, oh, what if you succeeded in a new position after a promotion or job change? How would success look like? How does failure look like if you were looking back at today in 20 years…