Why do we deny ourselves the things we actually want in our careers? Because we don’t think they’re realistic. I’m going to share with you why your career and business depend on you quitting the realist game and embracing your seemingly UNrealistic wants, dreams, and desires.

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Resumes, job hunts, cover letters, and even your current job are all distraction actions that are keeping you stuck and preventing you from going all-in on your dream career or business.

Listen to this week’s episode and learn why resumes and cover letters aren’t the solutions to your career problems.

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The pandemic has been a global time of adversity. It has upended our ways of life as we know it and that includes our careers. Working from home, having no social life, and the threat of a deadly virus have revealed to us some incredibly important values that we might not have realized or have been too stuck in our ways to live by.

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Why is it that we love helping people when they’re down, stuck, or lost? But when we’re the ones that need help–we don’t ask for it.

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What if doubting your career was actually good for your career? And what if not questioning your career choices was working against you?

In this episode, we talk about how even I, a Career Coach, doubt and question my career path and how I use it to propel my career and business forward.

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Search the word "success" in Google and take a look at what images come up.

Clearly, there is a collective vision of what success looks like. That definition seeps into our personal lives and influences the decisions we make about our careers.

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How do you leave an already successful career to go chase your dreams?

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You have a successful career. You get paid, you get good benefits, you even get paid time off. You have it pretty damn good, right?

But what happens when you know how good you’ve got it and you’re still unhappy, unfulfilled, and frustrated with your career?

Should you be grateful?

No.

You know how fortunate you are to have a job during a global pandemic; a successful career even. You still have the ability to pay your bills, and continue to make money during a time when so many people struggling to pay their bills and going out of business or losing jobs.

But knowing your blessings doesn’t mean you have to love your job and it doesn’t mean you have to stay in your career. And wanting to leave doesn’t mean you’re being ungrateful.

Real gratitude is the antidote to dissatisfaction. But toxic gratitude is when you use it against yourself. It’s when you deny how you really feel about your career and attempt to shame yourself into feeling real gratitude.

Toxic gratitude is a rejection of negative emotions and keeps us stuck in careers that don’t allow us to design a career that makes us feel alive. And no amount of shaming will ever make anyone feel better about their career.

Listen to this week’s Livelihood podcast to learn how giving yourself radical permission to feel ungrateful leads to real feelings of gratitude and how to utilize this practice so that you can design a more fulfilling, joyful, and aligned work life.

The only control we have is in the choices we make.

We don’t have to go to work. We don’t have to do our jobs.

Quitting and never working again is always an option.

We choose to work because of what it provides. Our work serves our life in the form of a paycheck, stability, or in other ways that we have decided is worth choosing to work each week.

But most people don’t see it that way. Most people see their careers as something they have no control over. They feel as though they’re being forced or trapped in a life that they didn’t choose. They are at the mercy of fate, luck, and other people.

And it’s in this dysfunctional belief where we give away our true power—the ability to create our dream careers.

Listen to this week’s Livelihood podcast on what happens when we allow external forces to run our lives and dictate our careers. Learn how resentment quickly festers and grows into toxic workplaces, misunderstandings, and burnout. Discover how to take back control of your career to create real job satisfaction and fulfillment. 

Viewing your career through rose-colored lenses isn't something that comes naturally to us. It takes work.

In this episode, we'll learn about what negativity bias is and how it distorts our perceptions and causes us to make rash decisions that we later regret.