Making a career transition always seems to take longer than you initially expect. It’s hard to know exactly how long you should give yourself to make the progress you want.

In this week’s episode of Career Relaunch, legal secretary turned yoga studio founder and instructor Lola Scarborough describes how grit and determination ultimately allowed her to get her yoga studio off the ground. We discuss the downside of having a job that’s too comfortable and what you learn about yourself when you’re forced to make a sudden career pivot.

During the Mental Fuel segment, I’ll also share my own personal experience with my own career transitions taking longer than I wanted.

Key Career Insights

1. The comforts of a stable, corporate job can often lead you to stop asking yourself tough questions about what you truly want from your career and life.
2. When you make tough changes, you discover both things you like and things you may dislike about yourself.
3. Discovering who you really are comes from a place of discomfort, which is exactly what a career pivot forces upon you.

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Listener Challenge

During this episode’s Mental Fuel segment, I challenged you to take a step back, reevaluate whether you’re being realistic with the timeline you’ve given yourself for a specific career transition or project you’re hoping to complete in the near future. Then build in a little extra buffer. And if you don’t get as far as you want as quickly as you want, just remember not to beat yourself up too much because it’s not unusual for things to take a little longer you than you initially expect.

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About Lola Scarborough, Yoga studio founder and author