Lesson 3: Why Waiting for the Perfect Time Keeps You Stuck

It's one of the most common things mid-career professionals say: "I'll figure this out when the kids are older, or "I'll make a move once I hit my next milestone." The perfect time always feels just out of reach, and that's not a coincidence.

Waiting for the perfect time feels responsible. It feels like patience and pragmatism.

But more often than not it's a way of avoiding the discomfort of uncertainty without having to admit that's what you're doing.

The timing will never feel completely right. There will always be a reason to wait. And waiting has a cost, in clarity, in options, and in energy spent managing a career that no longer fits. Clarity, however, doesn't come before the process, it comes through it.