Career change advice and exercises

I’m always a little conflicted when I write a blog post on career change. On the one hand, I want to share exercises and thinking that I...

Change your mindset about your career change fears

Think about the person you were five years ago. What have you done and how have you changed since then? Think about the work that you...

What do you want your life to look like in a year's time? Four steps to help you tihnk about what you want to work towards

What are your values and how do they help your career change?

Often, when we’re considering how best to live our lives, we’re urged to think about our time being very short. What would you do if you...

What are you telling yourself? We all have an inner monologue – a stream of voices in our head. Often, they are in planning mode –...

We often don’t think much about how we might have been influenced in our careers decisions. But, whether we are aware of it or not, we...

Identifying the pleasure points of work Every career change book has a section on rooting out what really drives you. In Designing Your...

“So many people are already doing this and they have years of experience. Why would anyone pay me? Maybe I should get another degree...

“Desk research is addictive. It gives you the illusion of moving forward, but instead keeps you mired in analysis paralysis. There is...

At school, the goal was to be pretty good at everything. If you weren’t doing so well in, say, maths, you might have extra tutoring to...

“Until recently most people made a deal,” says Marianne Cantwell in Be A Free Range Human, “I’ll work (in a job I don’t necessarily...

After finishing Designing Your Life, which book to read next? Here's the shortlist we chose from... A Job to Love - School of Life They...

What is the right choice? How do we make the correct decisions in life? According to the authors of Designing Your Life, this is a...

Chapter 6 of Designing Your Life starts with a commonly held dysfunctional belief: Dysfunctional belief: “If I comprehensively research...

“We’ve found that where people go wrong is thinking that they just need to come up with a plan for their life and it will be smooth...

Chapter 4 of Designing Your Life is about becoming better at generating options, and starts with a couple of dysfunctional beliefs:...

Problem finding + problem solving = a well-designed life, say the authors in Chapter 1. That’s why this chapter is all about defining...

This week was all about wayfinding – figuring out which direction we want to go, by looking for clues in what engages us and what brings...