Build your career around your lifestyle, not your lifestyle around your career.
Have you ever stopped long enough to consider the difference? 🤔 When we grow up with the question what, rather than who, we want to be when we grow up, it can become easy to conflate the career we want with the lifestyle we want without really realizing it. In fact, the career you want and the lifestyle you want can be really different, and when they come in conflict, intentional choices and compromises sometimes have to be made.
What if instead of trying to figure out your career first, you got intentional about your life first, and figured out how and where career fit in a way that both accommodated and enhanced it? What factors and priorities might change?
Disclaimer: While occasionally I include research and insights from my graduate classes in clinical psychology on my blog, I am not at this time a licensed therapist or mental health provider and therefore no content on this blog or website should not be considered or serve as replacement for therapeutic advice.
