Y: Your Next Move
Where Do You Even Start?
Your Next Move can sometimes be the hardest part.
Not because we don’t want change.
But because we’re often trying to figure it out while juggling work, family, health, finances, ageing parents, growing children, and everything else life throws at us.
We’re tired.
Busy.
Stretched.
And sometimes so focused on getting through the week that we don’t leave much room to think about what comes next.
And while we might occasionally dream of winning Lotto and spending our days writing, horse riding and volunteering at animal shelters (or is that just me?), most of us still have mortgages, responsibilities and real-world constraints to work with.
This is part of the Y: Your Next Move series in The Recalibration Years - the ‘so what do I actually do now?’ stage.
The good news?
You don’t need all the answers.
Most people don’t suddenly discover a new purpose, career, relationship or direction overnight.
More often, clarity arrives through small clues.
- Things that energise us.
- People who inspire us.
- Conversations that stay with us.
- Experiences that make us feel a little more like ourselves again.
- Questions we can’t quite let go of.
Over the next few ‘Y’ posts, I’ll be sharing some of the questions, exercises, stories and observations that have helped others find those clues.
Including a simple exercise I come back to often:
- What fills your cup, and what quietly empties it?
- What are you good at, and what do you actually enjoy?
Simple questions. But often, the ones we forget to ask ourselves when life gets busy.
Not because there’s one right answer.
But because sometimes the next move becomes clearer when we learn where to look.
And sometimes the first clue isn’t a five-year plan.
It’s simply noticing what gives you energy - and what drains it.