142. Stuck in Your Career? Try This 6-Minute Exercise

About this episode

This episode introduces a timed writing technique to help mid-career professionals clarify their career direction amidst competing voices.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to give advice about other people’s careers… and how much harder it can be to figure out your own? Many mid-career professionals reach a point where their thinking becomes crowded with competing voices. Should I change direction? Aim for promotion? Start something new? Or simply stay where I am? In this episode, I introduce a simple technique that can help cut through that noise: timed writing. By setting a timer and responding to a powerful prompt, you ca...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Crossfield

Topics covered

• career change
• timed writing
• self-reflection
• mid-career professionals
• decision making

Keywords

• career advice
• self improvement
• writing exercise
• professional development
• career decisions

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