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Not where you think you should be, and not where everyone around you assumes you are. Where you actually are right now. Still weighing things up? Starting to get serious about making a move? Already mid-change and wondering if you've done the right thing? All of those are completely valid places to be, but they each need different kinds of support. There's no point diving into action plans if you're still sitting in the "I don't even know what I want yet" stage, and there's nothing wrong with being there.

The career decisions that end up making the most sense are the ones that fit your actual story, not the polished LinkedIn version of it. What have you actually done? What surprised you along the way? What are you quietly proud of that you never put on a CV? Most people's histories hold way more direction than any personality quiz, they just haven't had someone sit with them and help them read it properly. That's what this is about.

If you're waiting to feel properly motivated before you start, you could be waiting a really long time. Motivational Interviewing flips that whole idea on its head. Instead of someone telling you why you should change, it's about drawing out the reasons that are already there inside you. What actually matters to you? What would be different if things shifted? Those answers, your answers, will always carry more weight than anything I could tell you from the outside.

Not every good career move comes from a five-year plan. Some of the best ones come from saying yes to something you didn't see coming, or following a thread that didn't make sense at the time. Happenstance Learning Theory is built on the idea that curiosity, flexibility, and staying open to the unexpected will often get you somewhere better than the most carefully mapped-out strategy. It's not about predicting what comes next. It's about getting better at noticing the good accidents and doing something with them when they show up.

Careers don't follow straight lines, no matter how much we want them to. They're messy, non-linear, and shaped by things you can't fully control. Chaos Theory of Careers doesn't say planning is a waste of time, but it does say that holding on too tightly to a rigid plan can actually work against you. The people who tend to navigate career changes well aren't the ones with the best roadmap. They're the ones who can read the terrain as it shifts and adjust without falling apart.

These six steps are a starting point, but honestly they work so much better as an actual conversation than words on a screen. No single theory covers everything on its own, which is why I pull from all of them depending on where you are and what you need on the day. If any of this resonated with you, or if you're sitting with a decision you can't quite crack, that's what the free discovery call is there for. Come with nothing prepared, no agenda, just wherever your head is at. We'll figure out the rest together.