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I was interviewed recently by Olivia Gamber, a US based career coach with an amazing podcast dedicated to providing quality career advice to help others navigate the changing world of work and stay relevant. We spoke about a topic which is dear to my heart—how to overcome your mid-life crisis and find your passion and purpose.
When you’re in a job that stresses you out and makes you miserable, you can feel so trapped you can’t even contemplate how to make a change for the better. I know – I felt this way once and it was horrible. Maybe you’ve been in the same job for years, or your self-esteem has taken a hit. Perhaps you don’t know how your skills and work experience can transfer into another role. These feelings are common for mid-lifers and younger professionals too!
I agree with Olivia, “If you’re in a job that makes you miserable, then you need to make a change. Not only are you making yourself more miserable every day that you choose to stay, but also the people you care about around you. Staying in a toxic situation like this can also lead to more serious long term health issues like anxiety and even depression.”
In my professional role as a career counsellor and holistic psychologist I’ve helped people with all of the above experiences and worse! I’ve had clients who are so stressed out by their work they have been suicidal due to their hopelessness and despair. I know acutely, personally and professionally, how important being happy at work is to every aspect to your life. As a holistic psychologist, I take a different approach than most career advisors and coaches when tackling these issues.
Tune into my interview with Olivia Gamber and gain some free strategies and tips to help you or someone you care about overcome work unhappiness. Check it out here http://occupationalolivia.com/how-to-overcome-your-mid-life-career-crisis/
Don’t waste another day feeling trapped. Don’t be the person who spends a life of regret, or waits until they retire before they follow their passions. Don’t be the person too afraid to make a change for the better, or who wishes they could lead a significant life. Make the change now. Before it’s too late.
Check it out here http://occupationalolivia.com/how-to-overcome-your-mid-life-career-crisis/
I’m also the best selling author of How to Find Your Passion and Purpose, and the Mid-Life Career Rescue series which includes:
Or check out my passion-driven business at Worklife Solutions
Someone once asked me, “What was the catalyst for writing your books?” In part, it was my experience with clients, but also the emails I received from people who I knew would never be able to see me professionally, and their depth of hopelessness and despair – despair that reached beyond the individual, but affected those who loved them.
Like the lady who emailed me, “No one will employ my husband because he was 55 and had been in the same job for 25 years until he was made redundant. He keeps being told that he has no skills employers would want.”
It broke my heart every time I had to reply to emails like this with, “I’m sorry we are not taking new clients at this time.” Because I knew from experience it didn’t have to be that way. I knew what he needed to learn was how to find his passion and clarify what gave him a sense of meaning and purpose, and how to sell his age and experience as an asset.
It was the experience of this man and many others like him that resulted in my decision to write my first book Happy at Work for Mid-Lifers. And it was the success and the feedback from those that read it that that led me to release a revised and updated version as Mid-Life Career Rescue.
As a recruitment consultant, I’ve seen first-hand how employers and recruiters can be ageist when it comes to hiring decisions. As a coach I’ve helped people overcome this and get hired.
I’ve also seen people put self-imposed limits on what they believe is possible at their age. Even non mid-lifers do that! “Don’t you do what you love when you retire,” one 28 year-old once said to me! “I’m too old to change, “ said another man in his early thirties. I’ve helped people successfully challenge those limits.
As a career coach and counsellor helping mid-lifers reclaim their lives after redundancy, rebuild self-esteem after workplace bullying, and bounce back from the depression that staying in the wrong job can create, I felt strongly that people needed both practical and inspirational ways to reclaim their lives.
I also believe that people need fewer check boxes and career assessment inventories and more creative, out-of-the box thinking to help them succeed. My views resonated with many – and I was interviewed on television and on the radio about this very thing. You can check these out on my media page here >>
I have also presented my unique Passion Driven Model of career design at conferences around the world. I’m not saying these things to boast – but to reassure you that you’re in safe hands.
When I attended an international symposium of career practitioners in Venice, Italy, we were warned of the crisis an ageing workforce presented and were told that the greatest skill career coaches needed was – wait for it…
to help people have an imagination!
As an artist and creative soul myself, that was like candy to a child. And since then, I’ve proven over and over again, with the successes I’ve gained for clients that thinking differently and creatively, as well as rationally, while also harnessing the power of intuition, and applying the principles of manifestation, really works. In this book I’ll show you why and how.
A large part of my philosophy, and the reason behind my success with clients, is my fervent belief that to achieve anything worthy in life you need to follow your passion. And I’m in good company.
As Oprah Winfrey said, “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” Without passion, you don’t have energy, and without energy you have nothing. You have to let desire, not fear, propel you forward. Yet worryingly, research suggests that less than 10% of people are following their passion. Perhaps that is why there is so much unhappiness at work.
Be empowered. Answer the call for change, take control of your career and your life right now. As Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited.” Make your life count, and enjoy the new future you’re creating.
Your story can be like Mandy’s, who in her 50’s, after reading Mid-Life Career Rescue wrote to me and told me how the book had changed her life:
“To be honest, I couldn’t put the book down – it was as though Cassandra had got inside my head and written it specifically for me! It helped me process the what/where questions I was asking myself and discussed all the aspects that had been tumbling around in my head like a washing machine for many months. It helped me process my thoughts, clarify my thinking, formulate a real plan and prepare myself for my new life.”
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