Minisode Monday #22 | Should You Leave Your Current Career?

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🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. In this Minisode Monday, recent guest Jenny Blake, author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, joins us to try and answer the age-old question: When dissatisfied with anything in life -- whether it's a career or a relationship -- is the grass really greener on the other side? The Cheat Sheet: Look at where you are now: maybe you're already in the right patch, but you just don't know how to make the grass grow there yet. Or maybe you really do need to move. We all have dreams -- some are worth pursuit, and some aren't. Jenny says you need to ask yourself: "What would I regret more? Staying in place, or making a decision [to pivot]?" Identify your must-haves, your nice-to-haves, and your dealbreakers. What are your knowns and your unknowns? What's the worst possible outcome (of going or staying)? What does success look like to you? Running small experiments (Jenny calls them "pilots") can help you test your "patch of grass." Important caveat: tasting a piece of cake doesn't really tell you what it's like to run a bakery. If you're still unsure, tune in to what your gut instinct says, and allow yourself some time to mull it over without rushing into anything rashly. To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text CHARMED to 33444. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Leave a comment below, tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response, or write to Jordan directly: [email protected] (he reads everything)! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-22-should-you-leave-your-current-career/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	Hey Jordan Harbinger here welcome to mini-sode Monday. Happy to be here with you kicking off the
0:04.5	week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away. It'll make you more
0:08.7	magnetic, it'll make you more effective and today we're talking with my friend Jenny Blake on how
0:12.9	to decide whether to leave your current career. Is the grass always greener? Jenny Blake will show us
0:17.9	how to test that out before we make any big moves. Here's Jenny. One of the ways that our society
0:23.7	likes to keep people in line is to tell them the grass is always greener whether it's a job or
0:28.9	relationship and I think that there's a holds a lot of people back when they hit a pivot point
0:33.7	because they question themselves. Part of their gut is whispering, you know there's more out there
0:39.7	for you and yet on the other hand they wonder, am I just unnecessarily complaining or unhappy?
0:46.8	Is the grass always greener? I think it's helpful. First and foremost we do have to ask about the macro
0:53.8	environment that somebody is in. Are you sitting on the right plot of land and now you just need
1:00.1	to optimize your grass growing abilities or is it that you need to move to a patch of greener grass,
1:06.4	another part of town, another city? And so the way that this can show up in career is let's say you
1:12.8	work for someone else. You're working at a big company. That's a patch of grass but maybe you would
1:17.6	rather be self-employed or you don't know but you have a hypothesis that self-employment is going to
1:23.0	be a better fit. And that was the case for me. I was working at Google five and a half years in a dream
1:27.6	job doing coaching and career development and I actually thought I would be a bad entrepreneur.
1:33.4	I thought that I'm not cut out for that. I'm not you know I'm so good at following directions
1:38.4	that it's not for me and yet that grass is greener feeling it it never went away. This looking
1:45.9	toward well what would it be like if I could be self-employed and go all in on my business. I had a
1:52.0	book coming out in 2011 and I finally got to the point. I think this is so important to ask ourselves
1:58.8	is what would I regret more staying in place or making a decision pivoting and no matter how it turns
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