Caroline Ceniza-Levine’s article, Five Warning Signs Your Desired Career Change Will Not Happen, published in yesterday’s Forbes Blog has excellent advice for those who feel stuck in their career transition.

If you feel that the barriers to your career transition are external, you should read this article.

If it is tough to read, it may be because you see yourself in "Jane’s" story.

Successful transition will require that you begin to notice the specific way in which you are like Jane and take action to avoid becoming a victim and your own worst enemy in your career transition. “You have to see the goal before you can reach it. If you don’t really believe you can make a change, you will find reasons that it won’t work and will give up too easily.” says Levine.

Her message highlights the reason to write “7 to 12 sentences that capture specific criteria you want out of your career and life over the next few years.

Sometimes our “thinking mind” gets in the way of us moving forward in this defined direction. It is often the root of why we get stuck . You can tell if its your “thinking mind” if your reasons are “I am too old”, “I am not experienced enough (when you have the experience)”, “I am not trained enough”, or “I am not good enough” etc.

The answer lies in letting your thinking mind chatter away while you go forward with your plan to find a postion that meets your established criteria. Act on your strengths in the direction of your deepest values.

Are you considering a career transition? Wayne Greenway is the Chief Executive Officer for Career Aviators. Career Aviators, a Certified B Corporation® helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. The profits from our work support programs to help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.

Monday’s Getting Unstuck

It’s the beginning of the week

Did you have times last week when you became stuck moving ahead with important things in your life?

Did you notice the thoughts like “ I might fail” “This will never work” or ”I am no good at this” or something similar

These self judgements are called “ thinking mind thoughts”

Experts say that just continually noticing these “thinking mind thoughts” is an important step in getting unstuck.

You may be drawn to analyzing where these thoughts come from or trying to stop them from bothering you by pushing them down. Experts tell us that the more you do this, the more entrenched the thoughts become and the harder it is to get unstuck.

Keep noticing and don’t stop, let them pass “like the trail of a bird” and stay tuned for more steps next Monday.

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Are you considering a career transition? Wayne Greenway is Chief Executive Officer with Career Aviators. Career Aviators is Canada's only career management firm that is a Certified B Corporation. Career Aviators helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. The profits from our work support programs to help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.