Here's how the story goes, and the best way out.

At this point I've met with hundreds of people one-on-one to help them through their career journey. Each is person is unique, but the pattern is the same:

• Person chooses job based on extrinsic factors like money, prestige, peer pressure, well-meaning parents' or friends' advice, benefit packages, lack of clarity about what to do next, etc.
• Person wakes up dissatisfied and tries to suppress it. It bubbles up again and again before they decide to do something about.
• Person expresses dissatisfaction to me, which is always the result of incongruence.
• We diagnose what is incongruent, which is always values, talents, or environment (or a combo of the three).
• In the process, the person shares what they've actually always wanted to do -- often in a hushed tone as if they're not allowed to dream -- but quickly begins doubting it and or shooting it down as a viable option.
• We build confidence to do it by getting clear about who they are and then identify the first step to actually doing it. For some, it may be quitting. For others, it may just be starting.
• They begin to do it, build momentum, and the universe shifts to provide them with an opportunity to do more of it.
• They do it and can't believe they ever spent so much time doing something different.

But wait, did you catch it? Did you see the solution to getting out of the funk and moving forward? It's ACTION. They did something. It might have been talking to someone, writing something down, taking the first step, or something else, but every RESET always starts with ACTION.

So DO SOMETHING.