"I'm so demotivated, disengaged and bored out of my mind. But I've spent 20+ years getting good at this, climbing my way up, building a reputation. What am I supposed to do, throw it all away to start all over again?"

Does this feel familiar to you? Too qualified to start over, too demotivated to stay put.

Welcome to "The Competence Cage".

The distance between expert and beginner feels like falling off a cliff. So you stay stuck, slowly dying of boredom and comfort.

You’ve spent decades climbing a ladder, working hard, putting in long hours, and following your ambition. But one day you wake up and realise that the view hasn't changed in a while. You earn decent money. People respect your opinion. But you're bored and... "something is missing".

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But starting over means throwing away the identity you've spent years building. It means giving up the salary, the status, the hard-won credibility, and the intoxicating feeling of being the person in the room who knows the answer.

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Going from expert to beginner is scary...so you stay put. You choose the certain misery of the known over the uncertainty of searching for something else.

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This is one of those moments in life where there are ONLY imperfect options, and standing around waiting for a perfect one to come along will cost you something even more expensive: time.


But here are some things to consider...

  • The Sunk Cost Fallacy

    You are worried about wasting the previous 20 years, but you should be worried about wasting the next 20. There are few greater risks to our future, than being unwilling to let go of the past.

  • The Reversible Door

    Jeff Bezos categorises decisions into two types. Type 1 decisions are irreversible one-way doors. Type 2 decisions are two-way doors - reversible. Changing your career is almost always Type 2.

    If you leave your job to try something new and it fails, your skills do not evaporate and your former employer would likely hire you back in a heartbeat. Therefore, the risk is not making the wrong move but wasting years procrastinating at the threshold of a door you can easily walk back through.

  • The Pottery Wheel

    I think we all treat our careers like clay on a pottery wheel. At the start, we experiment freely, reshaping again and again. But when it starts looking like something, we become more cautious, only making tiny adjustments terrified to ruin our hard work.

    Sculptures are admired for being finished. Lives are admired for being lived. You have to be willing to reshape the person you've worked so hard to become, to give the person you desire to be a chance to form.

This materclass is for you if:

  • You are done feeling unfulfilled, uninspired and disengaged with what you do
  • You want a career change but don't know what you want and how to get there
  • The thought of starting a new career from scratch, going back to school or taking a pay cut is holding you back


In this free 60-minute session, I’ll show you how to stop circling the idea and actually move forward. 

You’ll discover:

  • The three reasons your career change is stuck and how to unlock them
  • How to get crystal clear on what you want to do next (to get the enjoyable, meaningful work, income and lifestyle you want)
  • A simple, proven formula for changing career (I promise you, it's not as complicated as you think)
  • The strategies I use to help clients change career without sacrificing salary or lifestyle