Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

Name three people you admire and list three adjectives for why you chose each person.

You will never see the entire pivot path at the outset, nor would you want to. If the next steps were obvious and manageable with a simple spreadsheet, you would either already be taking them or you would be bored. The exhilarating part of tackling new opportunities is the inherent risk and uncertainty involved. It is the “call to adventure”

Impacters are not just asking What did I earn? but What did I learn? What did I create? What did I contribute? They measure their quality of life by how much they are learning, challenged, and contributing. If they are doing all three intelligently and intentionally, they work hard to ensure that the money will follow.

Navigating this accelerated pace of change and this transitional career state, learning to embrace it instead of resisting it, can become an edge and advantage. You can learn to enjoy calculated risk and uncertainty in exchange for adventure, flexibility, freedom, and opportunity.

I did not just happen upon my confidence again, I aggressively pursued it.

Because our careers are so fundamentally tied to our livelihood and sense of confidence, meaning, and purpose, these transitions can be traumatic without a road map for traversing them.

They know it is challenging, if not impossible, to focus on others if one’s own basic needs are not met first.

The most successful entrepreneurs I know are adept at working with companies, consulting

We were talented, hardworking, and committed to making a positive impact—and yet we all felt called to do things differently than how we had been doing them. Tackling these massive changes felt disorienting but right.

We each shifted to new, related work by leveraging our existing base of strengths, interests, and experience.