Is it time you decided you want change in your career — and actually took the steps to make it happen, allowing yourself to become the person you decided to be? Your choices determine your destiny. Not fate. Not circumstance. One small compromise at a time, until you barely recognise how you got here. Choice.

I find this quote genuinely powerful. Not in an abstract, motivational-poster kind of way — but because I've lived it. If you're new here, I talk a lot about careers, purpose, and the moment people finally figure out the work they were meant to do. This quote sits right at the heart of that.

Sometimes we get so entangled in our career change challenges that we can't see a way forward. If you walk away with nothing else from reading this, I want you to know: everything is solvable, and there are multiple paths to resolution. Taking a different approach when facing a seemingly unsolvable career situation is one of the most underrated moves you can make. I wanted to cover this after a conversation with one of my coaching clients this week. She was thanking me for h

So many of us work hard. Genuinely, exhaustingly hard. But how many of us are working hard at something that actually means anything to us personally? Meaningful Work Isn't One-Size-Fits-All Here's the thing about "meaningful work" - there's no universal definition. What feels worth it to me might feel completely empty to you. It's personal. It has to be. For someone, it's the feeling of helping another person through a hard moment. For someone else, it's making a genuine dif

Normal. What even is that? Honestly, the word sounds a little boring to me. A little vanilla. Somewhat pedestrian. Like beige carpet or plain rice cakes — perfectly fine, completely forgettable. And yet so many of us spend enormous energy trying to fit in, tone ourselves down, and smooth off the edges that make us genuinely interesting. We worry about saying the wrong thing, having an unpopular opinion, or standing out in a way that might make someone uncomfortable.

There's a quote I keep coming back to, and it's deceptively simple: "Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." Simple. Obvious, even. And yet, for so many of us - quietly radical. At some point, most of us stopped asking whether our work makes us happy. Instead we started asking whether it pays enough, whether it's stable enough, whether we'd be foolish to leave it. Whether we should just be grateful. I know this, because I lived it.