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so what do you do when you're just
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getting started with your career
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transition what's the very first step do
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you make a list of careers to apply to
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or do you work on your CV your interview
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skills or do you start a network well
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all of these steps are crucial but I
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don't think they're the very first one
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the first step is to understand why you
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want to walk away from your current role
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and to have a crystal clear idea of
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exactly what you're walking away from
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and here's the secret sauce write it
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down because when things get rough and
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they will definitely get rough you will
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start to forget you'll start to look
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back at your life and only remember the
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good parts even the bad days will
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suddenly seem like a badge of honor when
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I left clinical practice I even started
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romanticizing those long 24-hour shifts
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i actually started to miss them
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psychologist calls this the rosy
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retrospection effect or tendency to
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recall past events as being more
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positive than they actually were when
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we're in the middle of uncertainty our
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brains do this weird thing where we
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start idealizing the past we forget the
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sleepless nights the burnout the anxiety
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instead we start only remembering the
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good moments if you were a doctor maybe
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you remember the patients who thanked
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you your sense of purpose the pride in
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the title and suddenly even the hardest
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days start to feel like a badge of honor
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dr daniel Kaneman a Nobel Prize winning
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psychologist explains this in his work
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on memory and experience he says that we
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do not remember events as they happened
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we only remember how they felt at their
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peak moments and how they ended and
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here's the problem if you only remember
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the best parts you'll start to wonder
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did I make a mistake so before you take
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another step forward do this write it
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down in detail why are you leaving your
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current role writing is one of the most
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powerful ways to gain clarity so take a
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moment be brutally honest what was it
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about your old career that made you
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unhappy what were the moments that made
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you realize that you couldn't stay any
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longer what was unsustainable about that
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life what do you hope to gain in your
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next chapter and when the uncertainty
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hits I want you to read them over and
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over again i want you to remind yourself
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of the exhaustion the stress the feeling
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of being trapped in a system that didn't
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align with the life you wanted to build
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during my career transition I had many
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days when I felt lost days when I
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questioned if I had made the right
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decision i missed the identity the
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prestige the feeling of being needed and
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in those moments of doubt nostalgia
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would creep in whispering "Maybe it
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wasn't so bad maybe I made a mistake."
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So before you send out a single job
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application before you polish your
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LinkedIn profile before you even start
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exploring new industries take a moment
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to reflect what are you walking away
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from what are you moving toward write it
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down read it often let it ground you
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because your past doesn't define you
