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How To Overcome The Limiting Beliefs You Have About Your Career Change

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:42:47 +0000

The beliefs you hold about what's possible for your shift can leave you in paralysis. But what if the things you tell yourself are actually just one idea, in many disguises? Natasha shares a different perspective on your limiting beliefs and how to overcome them.

The beliefs you hold about what's possible for your shift can paralyse you into inertia. But what if the things you tell yourself are actually just one idea, in many disguises? Natasha shares a different perspective on your limiting beliefs and how to overcome them.

What To Do When Self-Doubt Is Keeping You Stuck In Your Career Change

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:08:18 +0000

Feeling like you don’t know who you are anymore? Scared of making career change decisions because they’ve gone wrong before? If past choices have shaken your confidence, finding fulfilling work can feel near-impossible. Here, Natasha unpacks the subtle signs of self-doubt—and how to begin rebuilding trust in yourself, one step at a time.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell

You know you want to make a career change. That much is clear.

But everything else? Blurry, confusing, and more than anything else – risky.

Risky from the outside, sure; the financial impact, a volatile job market, the judgments and opinions of others… but before all that, risky on the inside.

Because somewhere along the way, you’ve lost trust in yourself.

Why Your Search For Work–Life Balance Isn't Working Out (And What To Focus On Instead)

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:32:51 +0000

Wouldn't it be great if you could find a career with perfect work–life balance? Where your job never infringed on your personal life, and you could switch off all work-related thoughts at 5 p.m., like clockwork? Natasha thinks you could do a lot better than that. Here, she explains why.

Why You’re Finding It Hard To Leave A Job That Isn’t Right For You

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:33:30 +0000

Struggling to stay – but scared to go? Sometimes, the way you think about ‘endings’ can be the thing that holds you back from starting something new. Natasha shares the hidden beliefs that could be keeping you from leaving your current role – and 5 ways to tackle them so you can move on.

Deep down, you know it’s time to go.

But you just can’t seem to leave.

Why are you still there?

Usually, when you’re thinking about why you’re stuck in career change, you focus on the forward motion; what’s clear or unclear ahead of you, the obstacles you might encounter, the steps you need to take.

But you might be staying stuck not because going somewhere is hard, but because leaving is hard.

Consciously or unconsciously, you’re carrying a belief or a way of being that’s keeping you trapped.

Why You Keep Sabotaging Your Career Change – And What To Do About It

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:50:58 +0000

Constantly procrastinating and undermining your own progress when it comes to your shift? Know you're doing counterproductive things, but can't seem to stop yourself? Meet your inner saboteur. Natasha shares three key facts about this internal troublemaker, and an unusual approach to getting it back under control.

Do any of these sound familiar to you?

Selfish, Ungrateful And Unrealistic? Why Your Desire For Fulfilling Work Feels Uncomfortable (And What To Do About It)

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:13:08 +0000

Craving more fulfilling work can feel petulant and greedy – especially when you know many people would be grateful to have a career at all. But is it such a bad thing to want more from your working life? Natasha weighs up the two sides of the argument, and shares three ways to feel proud and confident about your next steps.

Friday afternoon, 5.30 p.m.

I’m in the car. The volume is up, the windows are down.

There’s a big, cheesy, inspiring '80s ballad playing on the radio and I feel… enraged.

What am I doing in this job? How have I let myself settle for something that’s so clearly not right for me? Why am I selling myself short this way, when I know I’m capable of more? Is my self-esteem so low that I’m willing to accept something that makes me this tired and frustrated and miserable?

The Art Of Being Clueless: How To Change Career When You're Totally Confused

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:29:34 +0000

No idea what to do next in your career change? Feeling trapped, frustrated and unable to make progress? There's a group of people who have made 'not-knowing and doing amazing things anyway' an art form. Natasha explains who they are, and how you can use their techniques to get your career change moving, too.

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." – Wendell Berry

Here's an uncomfortable thought: when it comes to your career change, there's a good chance you have no idea what you're doing.

I can be pretty sure of that, because I had no idea what I was doing when I made my own career change.

“Do What Works”: The Stupidly Simple Way To Stop Wasting Time And Make Progress Toward A Fulfilling Career

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:17:09 +0000

Are you spending time and energy on your career change… but not making much progress? Searching endlessly for fresh strategies and approaches that will actually give you clarity and confidence? Natasha shares an embarrassingly straightforward – but highly effective – way to make sure you’re getting results in your shift.

I don’t know much about you, but I know these three things are true:

Your life is busy
Your time is precious.
You really, really want to find a more fulfilling career.

Between work, family, errands, self-care, domestic tasks, <insert additional responsibility of your choice here>, finding the time and energy to dedicate to your career change can feel like an endless battle.

So it’s particularly painful when you do dedicate yourself to the process, only to feel like nothing you’re doing is paying off.

Why you need to start telling the truth if you want to find fulfilling work

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:29:27 +0000

Uncomfortable question alert: what are you hiding when it comes to your career change? Where are you pretending things are different than they are? Natasha shares why you have to be honest – with yourself first, and then with others – if you want to start making progress toward a career you love.

“I came into this career change process exhausted from wearing a mask every day at work; constantly keeping up appearances and pretending to be someone I wasn’t. All I wanted was a career that felt authentic and simple and honest.

I didn’t expect that the hardest part of getting there would be being honest with myself.”

– Ron, Career Change Launch Pad participant

You’re tired, aren’t you?

Why You Should Start Taking Your Career Change Less Seriously

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:19:30 +0000

Making a major shift can feel ominous and riddled with risk. There are so many important factors to consider. But is making your shift too 'serious' actually what's sabotaging you? Natasha shares how play can get you moving faster towards work you love.

Black and white.

Left and right.

Good and bad.

Work and play.

Contradictory, antithetical, either-or ideas.

The world of work and careers is serious stuff, and rightly so.

It's inextricably linked to the fundamental business of survival in all its senses: financial stability; family responsibility; social acceptance; legacy.

So when it comes to making a career change, foreheads naturally furrow. Shoulders slump.

Serious risks. Weighty decisions.

I’m A Career Coach And I Changed My Life This Year: These Are The Unexpected Lessons You Can Learn From What Happened

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:33:11 +0000

What happens when someone who spends her time supporting people through big life transitions makes a big transition herself? Natasha shares the key insights she’s gleaned from a turbulent year – and how you can apply them to your search for more fulfilling work.

This year, I turned my life upside-down.

I ended a long-term relationship, packed up my little house in the country I’ve lived in for the last 8 years, and took a 7-day road trip through Europe to set up home in a brand-new place.

The last 10 months have been hard. Beautiful and hard.

And after a decade of supporting people through big life transitions like career change, it’s been a poignant and humbling reminder of what these big transitions feel like on the inside.

“It’s Going To Be Messy, And It’s OK If It Hurts” – 7 Hard-hitting Career Change Lessons From Society’s Great Minds

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:27:17 +0000

Feel like you're the only one struggling to work out what you want to do with your life? The questions you're grappling with have a long lineage, explored by great thinkers and creatives for thousands of years. Here, Natasha shares a collection of their tough-love truths that you can use, today, to help you move forward in your shift.

“There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.” – Anaïs Nin

You're frustrated with feeling out of place every working day.

You're ashamed of knowing you're way off-course, but not knowing what to do about it.

You're amazed at how helplessly you're watching yourself shrivel and morph into a smaller, meeker, angrier version of who you used to know yourself to be.

And you're not alone.

Your Biggest Career Change Nemesis (And How To Defeat It)

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:51:21 +0000

You're stuck in your search for work you love. You want nothing more than to wake up excited every morning, but there's something getting in the way. What is it? Natasha suggests your biggest career change adversary might be closer than you think, and offers her insights on how to overcome it.

What's holding you back most in your career change?

Is it money? Is it time to focus on your shift? How about your mortgage, or your age, or the fact that nothing excites you any more?

These seem to be external obstacles: challenges or realities outside yourself that you just can't seem to get past.

4 Reasons Setting Goals Won’t Help Your Career Change (And What You Should Be Doing Instead)

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:55:05 +0000

Goal-setting seems like a smart thing to do in a career change. But it might actually be exactly what's keeping you stuck. Natasha explains why big targets can be a false friend to your shift, and what to do to start making progress instead.

I found it the other day, as I was emptying my old storage unit; a green, leather-bound notebook with a string that wound around the body and knotted to close it.

The inside was filled with hundreds of lines of my handwriting, in blue ballpoint pen.

Journal entries, to-do lists, thoughts I'd jotted down while waiting for the kettle to boil… and pages and pages of confused, frustrated outpourings about my work, my life, my future.

Reading those words transported me back to that year – 2012 – in a deeply visceral way that I haven't felt for a long time.

5 Tough Truths About Your Career Change (From Unlikely Experts)

Natasha Stanley — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:04:38 +0000

A dog psychologist, a radio host, and a painter... These people aren’t (technically) qualified to give you guidance on your career change. But they’re also not scared to tell you the truth. If what you’re doing isn’t working, try these five provocative lessons, collated by Natasha, to bring new ideas and energy to your shift.

You know a lot about the world of work.

You've spent years getting to know the ins and outs of it: climbing the career ladder, applying for jobs, landing clients, developing your CV, going to interviews… all the rest.

However stuck and confused you might feel in your career change right now, we can safely say it's not because you're not well-versed in how to navigate a career.

So what's the problem?