PATRICIA EZECHIE 
Coaching & Consultancy

When decisions about our careers seem to sit in other people’s hands, we can gradually lose sight of our own influence. But recognising what we can control, what we can influence and what is ours to decide can make choice visible again.

It can be deeply disorienting to lose confidence in a place where you once felt capable. But before assuming something has changed in you, it may be worth asking what has changed around you — and whether your loss of confidence is telling you something important.

Sometimes the career and life we've spent years building no longer quite fit the person we've become. That doesn't necessarily mean we made the wrong choices, or that we need to change everything immediately. Sometimes the first step is simply understanding what has changed in us.

When something in our work begins to feel wrong, we often rush towards the question, “What should I do next?” But perhaps clarity does not begin with having the answer. Perhaps it begins with becoming curious enough to understand what has changed.

We believe we need a serious, defensible reason before we are allowed to stop. But the fact that we can keep going does'nt mean continuing hasn't got a cost.