One of the saying people love to throw around is “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”.
It can be a nice little motivator for people who need a little nudge to take action.
But it also gets us into a mindset that we need to seize every opportunity that comes our way.
There’s a myth that we have to “do” things the right way for us to be successful. Just figure out the rules and play by them.
But if it was that straightforward, we would all be much more successful.
The problem is humans, individually and collectively, aren’t that simple.
For a very long time, I had been making career decisions based on two things: practicality, then desire. I’m now in a strange situation where I have enough to not be in need, and no longer want some of the things I used to.
It was during a chilly walk at the end of 2022 that my husband and I decided to take a path that would eventually move us to Spain.
But it was as early as the beginning of 2021 that I started to question whether I was still on the right career path.
Whether I wanted to be on the path I was on anymore.
