How to Effortlessly Make the Right Career Change Decision—Without the Mind Drama

Do you constantly agonize over career decisions, feeling trapped in indecision and mind drama, unsure if you're making the right choice?

This episode tackles a problem many doctors and healthcare professionals face: decision paralysis when contemplating a career change.

In this episode, you'll:

• Discover three transformative shifts to make career decisions effortless and pressure-free.
• Learn how to tap into your intuition for clarity and alignment in every decision.
• Find out why failing fast can be more empowering than staying stuck in indecision.

Don’t waste another minute in mind drama—play this episode now to start making decisions with confidence and ease!

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Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Transcript

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In this episode, you'll learn how to stop the mind drama about career decisions and effortlessly make the right decision every time. Welcome to Life After Medicine, the podcast helping millennial health professionals leave the system, find their purpose, and turn it into their paycheck. I'm your host, Chelsea Turgeon. In 2019, I quit my OBGYN residency. I had this gut feeling there was something more for me than 15 minute patient visits under fluorescent lights. Now, I'm a six figure entrepreneur, podcaster, and career coach. I get to do work I love. On my own terms, all while traveling the world. My mission is to help you follow your pull towards something more so you can find work you enjoy that doesn't burn you out. Don't worry. It's not a pipe dream. I'm here to show you exactly how it's done. I don't waste energy overthinking. I don't go back and forth. I don't feel any sort of mind drama about decisions. And I don't say that to brag, because honestly, I haven't always been that way. I remember back when I was working in residency, trying to decide if I should stay in medicine, or stay in residency, or transfer here, or go there, and I was so indecisive. I agonized over decisions. But now, I do not have that problem anymore. Now, I don't live in this state of mind drama.. I don't waste any energy overthinking. find being decisive to be so easy. And so in this episode, I want to share with you what were the shifts I made to go from agonizing, indecision, analysis, paralysis into Decisive, and confident, and not second guessing myself, not wasting energy overthinking, because what I want for you is to stop expanding your precious brain power in this mind drama of figuring out what to do and agonizing over every decision. I want you to end that agony, that sense of like wrestling with decisions. And so there's three big shifts I identified that have really helped me change the way I approach decisions that that help me consistently and effortlessly make the right decisions without second guessing myself. And this is what I help my clients do as well. Shift number one, I don't see any decision. as permanent. There's not one way doors. Most decisions are reversible to some extent. You can quit your job and then you can probably beg for it back, to be honest, if you feel like you made a mistake there is a shortage of healthcare professionals right now. They're not going to say no if you're like, actually, I decided I want to stick on longer. You can sign a lease for a year and then you can break it after five months which is what I did in Albania because I made this decision to stay there and then I realized that wasn't the right thing for me and so I broke the lease, I didn't, I lost a thousand dollars total but I honestly probably saved that money by renting instead of living out of Airbnbs over that five months and so overall I don't feel like I really lost it When I was making my decision to leave residency or not, I ended up convincing myself that, you know what, if I make this decision to leave and then it, I realized that it was a big mistake and it's not something I should be doing. I can find my way back to a residency, I can like work with the residency program that I did med school with, I'm sure someone could let me in there, like, I just decided that the decision wasn't permanent And that doesn't mean I was planning to be flaky, or I'm just making all these decisions willy nilly. Who cares? There's no consequences. That's not it. But by giving myself permission to reverse a decision, or change my mind, that takes so much pressure off. Where are you putting so much pressure on your decisions because you're thinking of them as these final permanent things where you do this one thing and there's no way out, there's no way back. So you better be 100 percent confident and certain and you better know exactly what you're doing because if you mess up, you're going to regret it. Where are you putting so much pressure on making these decisions that probably are not truly permanent? They're probably reversible to some extent. And how can you start to see those two way doors? How can you start to see that even if you make a decision and you realize you want to change your mind, you're going to be able to do that. How can you release the pressure around making a decision? Number two is I know how to connect to my intuition. I have learned how to tune in to my body to get clear information and signals about what the next right step is. Because what I've realized is the mind is a chaotic and confusing place. The mind is going a thousand miles a minute. It's processing input from so many other people and their opinions, which can make you even more confused. I've never found my mind to be a place of much clarity. The mind just makes everything more confusing. However, the body, there's always so much clarity within the body. The signals that I get from my body are so much more clear and so much more simple. And that's how I think of my intuition. Your intuition lives in the body. And so when you know how to tune into your intuition or tune into your body for guidance, it's so much easier to tap into what feels 100 percent true and certain for you. My body will always tell me if something is a yes or no or ask again later. My body will tell me if something feels heavy. Or constricting, or like pressure, or like something is squeezing somewhere in my body. Or if something feels warm, light, expansive, exciting, activating, if there's an energy there. And having this ability to tap into my body, into my intuition for clarity and guidance. Really is this superpower that makes it so much easier to make decisions, because honestly, without my intuition, I would feel like I'm walking around blindfolded. I don't know how people do it. I guess this is why people are so indecisive. They're always going back and forth. And in this mind drama is because there isn't this ability to drop down and tap into the body where everything feels so much more clear. This is what I do inside my Intuition Activator Workshops with my clients. It's something I'm doing two times a month within my new membership program, the Aligned Career Collective. I help you guys practice and develop the skill of tapping into your intuition. So you can use the wisdom of your body for guidance, for clarity. Without this, of course you're confused, of course it's hard to make decisions, of course you're feeling so stressed out in this mental tornado of should I stay, should I go, what should I do, caught up in all the pro con lists and the analysis paralysis, like of course that's where you are because the mind is not great at clarity. It's great at problem solving. It's great at coming up with plans of action and executing, but it's not good at clarity. That's why we need the intuition. And so knowing how to connect to my intuition has really created this huge shift in me and it's helped me be so much more decisive in every area of my life. And then shift number three Of how you can start to effortlessly make the right decisions. This is actually counterintuitive. It's making the wrong decisions. And what I mean by that is I've adopted this mindset of I'd rather fail fast than sit in indecision. And that's because the consequences of failing fast are usually nowhere near as dire as the cost and the consequences of simmering in indecision. To me, the consequences and the pain of indecision is so clear. I see it in my clients and the people who come to me. They just have been agonizing over, like, what to do. There's just this constant mental battle and it's so draining. The decision fatigue is not just decision fatigue. It just creates this fatigue and this energy drain around your whole life. It can be consuming. Like if you're trying to figure out what to do about your career, that follows you, that haunts you, it keeps you up in the middle of the night, you're trying to sift and sort through what to do, you're driving yourself into work and you're feeling dread and trying to problem solve and not coming up with anything. You're trying to enjoy time outside of work with your family or your friends or trying to do the things you want to do and you're just In this constant state of like trying to figure out what to do but not making any progress and you're just spinning your wheels and it's draining and all consuming and you don't have time for that. I clearly see the pain and the agony of indecision. And all of that pain and agony can just be avoided by taking action. By allowing yourself to fail fast because you realize the pain. Worst ever consequence of failing fast is so much better than the consequence of sitting in indecision. I have, I've had potential, I've had clients who started working with me recently, 2024, who reached out to me back in 2021. And they were struggling then, then three years passed by of them staying stuck in the same place of indecision and struggle. And they finally signed up to work with me. They wasted three years staying stuck in the same place because they couldn't decide to work with me or not, to change careers or not. They were just so stuck in indecision. They wasted so much time and effort stuck in the same place. And so if you can adopt this fail fast mentality of I'd rather make the wrong decision and quickly learn from it than waste time and waste effort. Effort and brainpower and energy, trying to make the perfect decision. Failing fast has less consequences than the pain and agony of indecision. And remember that no decision is a decision. It's the decision to stay stuck where you are, right? If you're not changing it, you're choosing it. So if you want to keep choosing it, Great, but usually the reason you're indecisive and going back and forth is because you don't want to keep choosing it. You want to figure out something else, but you don't know what that is. And so you're just in this freaking mess of indecision. And it doesn't have to be that way. You do not have to stay stuck in the mind drama. You do not have to stay stuck in indecision. You don't have to waste energy over thinking. Making decisions can be easy, it can be effortless. If you stop seeing every decision as permanent, if you learn how to connect to your intuition, and it can be learned, it's not a skill that some people have and some people don't, it's something I can teach, it's so easy to teach, you just have to be willing to learn, And if you'd rather fail fast than sit in indecision, when you make these shifts, it is so easy and effortless to make decisions and you won't have to deal with any mind drama. If you're interested in learning how to connect to your intuition, how to fail fast and do these mini career experiments where you have, where you can gain so much clarity through action. This is exactly what I help you with inside the Aligned Career Collective, which is the membership program that I've opened for healthcare professionals who want to make their dream career a reality. If this is something you're interested in joining, I would absolutely love to support you in this journey. Head to alignedcareercollective. com for more information.