Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

What would it be like to live at the border? What would it be like to be open fully to the energies and possibilities that are emerging, regardless of their threat to habit, comfort, and stereotyped expectations?

An impasse experience can unfold over a year or within twenty-four hours. Impasse is a psychological process, outside of time and space. It is another word for a border that is always there, beckoning.

come to relish the prospect of “frontier living.” Each impasse brings us another taste of what such a life might be. Eventually, we become convinced that the border is where we want to be.

he worried that his life had become too “horizontal”—constantly moving forward—and less “vertical”—allowing him to go deep with meditation, reading, being with his family, or taking long walks in the country.

With whom must you speak in order to get a better sense of what choosing this direction would mean?

We must get the decision out of our head. We need to jump in the pool and get wet.

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The process of working with the poles of the dynamic tension is the same if we are facing a broader life decision and not a career decision. We must spend time at each of the poles and observe the feelings, thoughts, and images that come to us

The temptation when experiencing the tensions of a difficult choice is to seek a quick compromise, to find some middle ground that seems to offer some of the best of the conflicting poles. This rarely works and rarely satisfies. In the end it has the feel of something cobbled together and fleeting rather than something that asserts itself from the