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The Mindset You Need to Dance With Change

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This is the fourth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Here, I share what is really the first step to getting into leap-ready state—the mindset you need to dance with change.

I was unsure of how to move forward.

In reaching the tipping point, my mind kept turning on the how’s and the what’s to no avail. The many possibilities morphed into its own obstacle. I was overwhelmed and doubtful, not fully trusting I’d make the change I resolved to make.

Many people, myself included, start wondering about the tactics of a potential change without addressing what I now know to be a key part of making the leap.

It’s not about the tactics or the “how” at the beginning.

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How I Reached The Tipping Point

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This is the third article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Here, I share how I reached the tipping point.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

It took me three years to reach the tipping point.

During those three years, I hid from the change I needed to make in my life. I continued on my stagnant path, until the milestone distractions against the angst drew to an end six months after we moved into our first house.

I started feeling an unshakable sense of doom. Nightmarish images of years passing by and weakening limbs bearing the resentment, regrets and what-ifs haunted my waking and dreaming thoughts. They came from the knowing within that if I didn’t make a change in the near future, it’d only get harder to leave and easier to find another reason to stay.

On the last day of 2013, a conversation with a newish friend was the spark that led to the tipping point in my life.Continue Reading