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(7 of 8) Decision Paralysis: How to Finally Make the Career Move You've Been Putting Off for Years | What Fits You

Sun, 14 Jun 2026

Making the decision is the hard part. Most of us never actually do it. We deliberate, analyze, talk ourselves in and out of it, and at the last possible second we cave and pick the safest option on the menu. Then we wonder why nothing's changing.

In Day 7 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, we're addressing the actual move you've been avoiding for the last six days. By the end, you'll know how to make a decision that opens momentum, not one that creates more pressure to be perfect.

You don't have to decide the rest of your life. You just have to decide the next step.

What you'll learn:

Why making the decision is harder than knowing what the right one is
How not deciding is still deciding, and what it costs you
The Emerson and Tony Robbins reframes that make career decisions feel less like cliffs
Why an imperfect decision still beats the perfect one you never make
The specific size of decision you should be focused on right now, and how to make it

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Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 2 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 4 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 5 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 6 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(6 of 8) Wrong-Fit Opportunities: The 3-Step Framework That Reveals the Right Career for You | What Fits You

Sat, 13 Jun 2026

Most career professionals stay stuck not because they don't have options, but because they're evaluating them against the wrong thing. They compare role to role, company to company, path to path. And because none of the options is obviously better than the others, they keep circling without ever moving.

The problem isn't the options. It's the comparison point.

In Day 6 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, you'll use everything you've built across Days 1-5 as the only criteria that actually matters. By the end of today, you'll have a clear shortlist of three opportunities that actually fit you, and a much smaller list of the ones you can stop pursuing. You don't evaluate a career opportunity against other career opportunities. You evaluate it against what you know about yourself.

What you'll learn:

Why comparing one career opportunity to another keeps high performers stuck for years
The 3-step framework that turns five days of self-discovery into a real decision criteria
How to eliminate wrong-fit opportunities so you stop wasting time pursuing them
The specific signs that an opportunity matches your Signature Strengths, your Five Areas, and what your 5 Whys revealed
Why eliminating what doesn't fit isn't giving up, it's how you make room for what does

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 2 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 4 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 5 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(5 of 8) Self-Limiting Beliefs: How to Find the Career Possibilities Your Brain Has Been Filtering Out | What Fits You

Fri, 12 Jun 2026

There's a voice in your head that's been running for twenty-plus years, and it's been deciding what's possible for you before you've had a chance to consider it. "That's not realistic." "That seems unreasonable." "Someone like me doesn't do that." Most high performers have never noticed the filter is even there. They've just lived inside its conclusions.

In Day 5 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, we name the filter, get around it, and walk you through the one exercise that's surfaced more achievable career possibilities than any self-assessment tool we've used.

After almost 100,000 people through this course, here's what we know: the things you keep dismissing as "wildly unrealistic" are almost never unrealistic. They're just unfamiliar.

What you'll learn:

Why your brain has been ruling out the best career possibilities before you've had the chance to consider them
The specific cognitive bias that runs harder the longer you've been a high performer
The 3 Wildly Unrealistic Things exercise, how to do it, and why almost every answer is more achievable than it sounds
What we found after collecting tens of thousands of responses to this exercise, and why it stopped us in our tracks
How what you write down today becomes the foundation for the rest of this course

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 2 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 4 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(4 of 8) Career Design: How to Build a Career That Fits Your Whole Life (Not Just Your Job) | What Fits You

Thu, 11 Jun 2026

Almost every high performer we work with has spent years making career decisions without ever stopping to ask what kind of life those decisions were building toward. Not because they didn't care about their life outside work, but because their career had its own momentum. Each next step made sense. Each promotion was a logical move. And somewhere along the way, the career started making the life decisions instead of the other way around.

In Day 4 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, you'll work through the five areas of your life your career is either supporting or working against, using the same framework our team walks clients through to build their Ideal Career Profile.

Fit isn't just about the work. It's about the whole picture.

What you'll learn:

Why career decisions made on autopilot end up shaping every other area of your life
The 5 categories most high performers have let their career make decisions about by default: Environment, Financial, Family/Social, Personal Development/Growth, and Physical Health
What specific questions to ask in each area to surface what you actually want versus what you've been making peace with
Why income becomes both the reason to stay somewhere that doesn't fit and the thing that makes every other area harder to prioritize
How the Ideal Career Profile becomes the foundation for evaluating real opportunities in the next stage of the course

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 2 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(3 of 8) Career Clarity: How to Use the 5 Whys to Find What You Actually Want from Work (And Don't Want) | What Fits You

Wed, 10 Jun 2026

"What do you want?" sounds like a simple question. Try answering it about your career right now and you'll probably find it's harder than it sounds. Most people don't draw a blank, they tell you everything they don't want with precision and freeze the moment the question gets flipped forward. That's not because the answer doesn't exist. It's because nobody has ever given you the right tool to find it.

In Day 3 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, you'll learn The 5 Whys exercise, the same problem-solving framework we've adapted for career change and used with thousands of clients to surface what you actually want underneath what you don't.

Every "don't want" is pointing at something. The 5 Whys helps you see what.

What you'll learn:

Why naming what you don't want feels easy but naming what you do want feels impossible
How what you want shifts over time, and why the dream role of your 30s often isn't the right fit by your 40s or 50s
The 5 Whys exercise, how it works, why it cuts through complaint to clarity, and exactly how to use it on your biggest career frustration
The real reason high performers stay stuck even after years of self-reflection
How Jerrad went from "I don't want technical work" to "I want work that helps me be a better parent" in five questions

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 2 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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