How You’re Holding Yourself Back in Your Career and How to Fix This (Part 1)

I'm going to help you unstick yourself from your current career position. I've split this blog into 2 parts. Part 1 outlines your problem if you're feeling stuck (cheerio to those reading who are 100% happy in their career). Then in part 2, next week, I'll share with you some great ways to solve your problem. You'll want to come back here next week or sign up to the RSS feed or email notifications if you want the solution!

How You're Holding Yourself Back in Your Career

Face it – you want to be somewhere else don't you? A different career, role, or just a better, more rewarding or fairer deal than the one you've got? That's why your eyeballs are soaking up these words, in hope…

Maybe you have an urge to do something in particular? Maybe you've been thinking about something else for a while now? A new business perhaps? An entirely different career? Applying for a position in a top company? Or thinking about asking for a promotion or pay rise? But something's stopping you. Something's holding you back from moving towards what you think you should have or deserve. Look, you're not going to get it the way things are. You're going to have to work out what's stopping you, and overcome it.

The first two most common reasons people give me for not moving towards a better career position when they know they want to, are:

1. They don't know exactly what they want
2. They do, but they don't know how to make it happen

Both of these can be overcome relatively easily (click here) They're actually not the hard part. Ideas and know-how can be obtained (once you know how!) Ok, these may be holding you back, and you'd do well to deal with them quickly. But once you have, you'll almost certainly hit a new wall.

This wall is much harder to break through.

You may be facing it now. This wall is built by your subconscious, and it's put in place in an attempt to keep you feeling safe. It's a survival thing. You feel safe on this side of the wall, and…well, you don't really know what's on the other side of the wall. Could be great, but then, it could be hell for you? You don't know. So your subconscious builds a strong wall to keep you feeling 'safe' (ironically, that's 'feeling safe' in an undesirable even miserable position..) That's why you want your conscious to deal with this one, not your subconscious.

In fact, I can describe this wall to you more clearly. Each brick is an excuse or reason that your subconscious has put in place to keep you 'safe', or hold you back, depending on how you view it. The bricks in your wall might include:

• lack of confidence
• lack of self-belief
• too busy
• tiredness
• it's not the right time
• laziness
• ignorance
• not enough resources
• other people holding you back
• fear

Some are excuses that you present to yourself (too busy, not enough resources, other people). Others you don't really have a handle on – they're not excuses as such, they're just there, in your way (these are things like ignorance, fear, laziness).

The thing is, some people seem to be able to just blast through the wall between them and where they want to be, even though they could probably claim many of the things on the list too.

So what makes these people different? Are they born like it? Or did they learn to be like this? Or did circumstances lead them to side step the list of excuses? Or did they simply decide to 'just do it'?

If you think they're born like it, and you're not, then you've just put another brick in your wall. If they learned to overcome their wall, then that's great news for you, because you can learn too. If it was circumstances, maybe it's possible to try to put yourself in similar circumstances, if that's what it takes? Maybe you are already in those circumstances?

I vote for it being a combination of learning how to get around the wall, and circumstances. Next week then, I'll show you how to knock down each of the bricks I've mentioned. If you have other bricks to add to the list, let me know in the comments below. I'll help you knock them down.

Oh, I almost forgot – what about the people who decide to ignore the learning and circumstances, and 'just do it'? You could just copy them if you want, take the straight line approach and get moving on your idea right away…that's an idea reflected by the title of Richard Branson's book 'Screw it, Let's Do it!' It's an option if you want to take it and save time.

For the rest of you, if you don't want to miss my post next week, either sign up to my RSS feed or email list. See you then – have a good week.

P.S. Please forward this post on to anyone stuck in their career

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