The Surprisingly Simple Way To Change Your Life When You Feel Really Stuck

Mark was ready to hoist the white flag. He’d been searching for a new career for over a year.

“Nobody really changes careers,” said one career coach.
“Just hang on to your job and eventually you can retire and do what you want,” said his girlfriend.

People seeing Mark at a networking meeting would be surprised. He looks calm, well-dressed, and confident. Yet each year, he tried not to hear the little voice in his head: “You really need to do something different.”

Mark began a career as a manager of a small department of a big corporation. He’d just graduated from school. He needed a job. He liked the hours. He loved the benefits.

Nearly two years later he realized he was bored stiff.

Here were some things that went wrong- -

• Being passed over for promotion after getting a borderline review.
• Accidentally erasing an important report from his computer — with no backup.
• Being late to work almost every day.
• Feeling he was always saying the wrong thing when he worked with his colleagues.
• Gaining weight because he kept nibbling potato chips from the vending machine (and…