How to Get Unstuck on Your Career Decision

Getting stuck is often an indicator that we are engaging in poor quality thinking for ourselves. But there’s a way to get out of it.

When we feel stuck on an important career or work-related decision, we tend to engage in two types of thinking: overthinking and underthinking.

Type 1: Overthinking

We over-analyse our circumstances and all possible scenarios. This ends up paralysing us even more.

Type 2: Underthinking

We hide the problem in the back of our mind and get buried in ‘busy work’. We end up not dealing with our dilemma.

Engaging in these types of thinking is simply a human tendency. We have to treat it with compassion towards ourselves.

In fact, our mind often goes from one state to another over a very short period of time.

We overthink and underthink at the same time.

The paradox is that the more we overanalyse, the more exhausted we get. We end up just wanting to bury all our worries.

Yet, an unresolved dilemma always makes its way back to nag us.

It just won’t go away.

Getting stuck is often an indicator that we are engaging in poor quality thinking for ourselves.