Most people think the transition starts with a job search.

I don’t think that’s the hardest part.

The harder part is figuring out what matters to you
before life starts feeling urgent.

Because once it does, reflection gets crowded out fast.

You start doing.
Sending resumes.
Chasing interviews.
Taking calls.

Trying to create momentum.

And some of that is necessary.

But the quick feedback can feel like clarity when really
it’s just urgency talking.

That was a big part of our conversation this week
on LRR chats.

Tom said he spent the first couple of years of building
his business in fight or flight.

Urgent about everything.

Convinced that speed and action were creating clarity.

In hindsight, it was doing the opposite.

I felt that too.

If you wait until you’re in the middle of the chaos reflect
on what you actually want your life to look like,
it’s a lot harder to hear yourself.

When everything around you feels uncertain, it helps
to know what matters to you with some certainty.

Not because it solves the problem.

Because it grounds you while you’re moving through it.

And having the right people around you matters too.

Not to solve it for you.
Just to steady you while you do the work.

If you know a shift is coming,
start earlier than you think you need to.

The time goes fast.

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