Professional Priorities

 There is nothing like an emergency to help you establish your priorities.
Whether the trigger is physical, emotional, financial, is often an irrelevance. They all stimulate exactly the same chemical in our brains, adrenaline.
This is the fight or flight drug. You’ll have heard of it. One of the effects it can have in our professional worlds is to aid decision making. Anything extraneous is swiftly cast aside in the brain and choices are made in the head and now, that we might have vacillated over for years in other circumstances.
Given an imminent job loss and it’s incredible how quickly the brain jettisons all the mundane tasks, harnesses its powers, and rifles through the filing systems entitled ‘responsibilities’ and the other one entitle ‘possibilities’ to locate a way through this labyrinth.
There are two downsides to waiting for such a trigger to make career choices. Firstly that it is exhausting. There is only so long that any of us can live in the fight or flight zone before we burn out. If the solution to your career difficulty arrives swiftly, all to the good. If however there are a series of disappointments then eventually you can become too chronically fatigued to remain potent.
The second danger is that under the influence if adrenaline, the ‘wrong’ decision can be made. This is because the decision may have been taken out of fear and not out of love. This fear-based decision-making may well be the best thing that has ever happened in that it forces a career decision that has been waiting to be faced for a long time. It could also be an unsustainable choice that is grabbed at out of need.
So to make a ‘career choice’ rather than a career leap from a sinking ship, has a much better chance of success. To choose change, from a stable platform, because you want the change, not because you NEED the change, has more latent success … Might it be time for you?
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