Start with What Matters: Rethinking Career Change from the Inside Out
When you start thinking about a career change—or a deeper shift in how you live and work—it’s easy to begin with the logical questions:
What transferable skills do I have? What industries could I move into? What would make sense based on my background?
These are reasonable starting points. But they often lead to surface-level answers. If your goal is not just a different job, but a more fulfilling and intentional life, the better question is:
What actually matters to me right now?
Real, lasting change doesn’t begin with your resume. It begins with your values—the things that energize you, ground you, and guide your sense of purpose. When you reconnect with those, your next move becomes less about strategy and more about alignment. You shift from asking what can I do? to what do I want to create?
Starting with values allows you to get clear on what kind of work actually feels meaningful. What kind of environments help you thrive? What kind of impact do you want to have? What do you want to feel more of in your day-to-day life? From that place, your decisions become more anchored, and your options expand—often in directions you hadn’t previously considered.
Motivation matters too. Not the kind driven by fear or urgency, but the kind that comes from within—a pull toward something more fulfilling, more alive. When you act from that place, you show up differently: clearer, more confident, more connected to what’s possible.
This is where real transformation begins—not by repackaging your past, but by reconnecting with what lights you up and stepping forward from there.
So before you ask, where else can I go with my skills?, take a moment to ask instead:
What do I want this next chapter to feel like?
What do I care about now, that I can no longer ignore?
And what would it mean to create a life and career around that?
That’s the work. And it’s where the most honest, sustainable shifts begin.
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