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Reassess: The First Step of Change

May 6, 2016 By Uncoveries

A remarkable number of people dislike being alone with their thoughts. Like truly alone—without a phone, TV, laptop or tablet to help pass the time.

What about you? As an introvert who recharges by being alone, I enjoy the time I spend by myself. But if I were to count the minutes that I spend without being occupied, distracted and entertained by technology, they add up to far less than I think.

The constant distraction has a cost.

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Filed Under: Lifestyle, Meaningful Progress, Transition Tagged With: Avoidance, Awareness, Change, Digital Distractions, Distractions, First step of change, Life Journey, meditation, Mindfulness, Process of uncovering, Procrastination, Reassess, REEBO, Self-care, Stagnancy, Transition, Vulnerability

The 4 Ways We Hide From Change

October 8, 2015 By Uncoveries

This is the second 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 talk about the years leading up to the tipping point, and the ways I hid from the change I needed to make in my life.

“Without change, something sleeps inside of us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

– Frank Herbert


Change is one of the few certainties in life, and yet many of us choose to reject this certainty, preferring known evils to the vast unknowns. I know this all too well. It’s much easier, safer and more convenient to succumb to the status quo—even when it’s no longer beneficial.

Leaving college, I thought I was on a great career track. The first three years, I did all the things I was supposed to do: worked long hours, volunteered for extracurricular resume-builders, attended company networking events, and got promoted.

The next three years before I quit, the track started heading downhill. And even though I knew corporate finance wasn’t for me, I tried my best to make the wrong thing work.

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Filed Under: Sabbatical Tagged With: Certainty, Change, Clarity, Distractions, Mental Blocks, Quitting, Quitting Your Job, Sabbatical, Taking the leap

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