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Is Career Coaching your next step?

  • Writer: Urszula Kiezun
    Urszula Kiezun
  • May 6
  • 3 min read

Updated: May 13

There comes a moment when something no longer feels right—even if, on paper, everything looks fine. Not dramatic enough to quit. But too present to ignore.


Do you live from weekend to weekend, from vacation to vacation? By Saturday evening, you already get a squeeze in your stomach when you think about Monday? Or do you feel like you're failing because you haven't found your place in the job market for years?

It doesn't have to be that way.

Work is more than a paycheck


In our world, work has great importance—not only because by working, we earn money, and we need this money to make a living every day. Money is not everything. 

In many societies, professional success, however we define it, often defines your worth. 

At the same time, a huge part of our lives is spent at work. If to official working hours we add overtime, commuting, business trips, or team-building events, it turns out that work takes up a huge piece of our lives. Not to say it takes away a big piece of our lives. We often spend more time at work than with our family, friends, or on the things that really give us joy.

On top of all this, work often becomes a source of stress, frustration, burnout, and illness. 

And being out of work doesn't solve these problems at all - it can actually make them worse, because being out of work often means being judged by the outside world, and sometimes judged even more harshly by yourself.

Take a break and look at your work-life


It's not just a question of whether it's time to change your job, start working at all, maybe change your profession, or what your job profile and labor market trends are. It's also worth thinking about what work in general means to you—whether you want to define yourself by your work, by your career, what „professional success” means to you, what you expect from work, what place you want to give it in your life, and what you want to allow it to mean in general.

If any of this resonates—the questions, the doubts, the quiet sense that something needs to change—career coaching might be exactly the space you need to explore them—and move forward.


Coaching isn’t magic or empty slogans

Coaching, unlike therapy, does not focus on your past in order to understand the problems you face today. Coaching focuses on the future - it helps you set the direction you want to go, and use the resources you already have to move in that direction most effectively.

Coaching is also not empty empowerment in the sense of: “you can do anything, just believe in it,” nor a collection of magic tricks like “find your talent and success will follow” that can turn your life into a fairy tale overnight.

Coaching is a process. It is work—intellectual and emotional. It is about making decisions that are worth making consciously.

Life is too short for work you hate

However, this doesn't mean that the process has to be long and torturous. Sometimes it's a matter of shifting a few “internal modes,” changing your perspective, looking at things differently, asking yourself the right questions - so that real change can take off.

And if you are in any way preoccupied with the issue of professional work, it is worth taking at least a moment for such a process. Work can be one of the greatest joys in life—so it’s worth taking a step toward making it feel that way.

You don't have to have it all figured out before you get in touch. That's exactly what the first conversation is for.




 
 
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