Time For a Change?

So, you are wondering if it may be time for a change.

Have you been presented with a new career opportunity or once in a lifetime chance to travel? Had a bad day, feeling underutilized, unappreciated? Tired? Challenge replaced by the routine? Looking to provide more focus on a different aspect of your life? Dementors getting you down? Need more money? Curiosity got your attention? 

Wondering if it may be time for a change and want some help? There are many, many great resources, tools, and perspectives available from face to face coaches, books, blogs, education resources, career and interest inventories. Each provides something different yet they all have one thing in common. They all come back to one thing - you.

In the quiet of your own mind, you have to face you and there simply is no way around it. Believe me, if there was, I would have found it by now! The answer to the question, "now what?" is there for those with the courage to not only seek it but to listen to what they hear. The grass is always greener on the other side yet "you," the constant, will remain. You are what this question is all about. You the parent, the spouse, the friend, the colleague, the neighbor, the person.

Facing yourself, what gives you energy? What draws your energy away? What is important to you? What are you trying to achieve? What do you need to do to get there? What do you need to give up? What do you need to change? Envision what it would be like if you were there . . .what does it feel like? Something you want? 

What do you think? Ready for a change?

Are you tired of your job . . . . or are you just tired?

When asked, "how are you today," do you respond, "tired, very tired?"

As a wife, friend, mother of a thriving 6 year old, HR Manager, PTO Officer, gymnastics, swimming and guitar lesson observer and supporter, 8-10 hour a night sleeper who gets only 6-7 on a regular basis and one who can't get a visit to the gym in unless she goes between midnight and 4:30 am (NOT), I say YES.

Is your well dry? Do you feel as though you have nothing left to give? Do you wonder if it is your job? If it is not your job, it must be something. If not something it must be someone. Right?

Not necessarily. In her post Are you tired of your job .  . . or are you just tired?  Peggy Andrews describes a time when her well was empty. The best part is the quote from her father-in-law when he says,

"It's very easy to think you are tired of someONE or someTHING when the reality is, you are just TIRED."  

The father-in-law may be on to something. Let's go get some sleep!