I’m back after a bit of a hiatus. I daresay I have been caught up in the rapture of love (as Anita Baker would say). I got married on December 19 after being divorced for 11 years. My now-husband, Thomas, and I “knew” we wanted to be together only 23 days after we met and it was a total of 93 days before we walked down the aisle. Most friends and loved ones cheered, a few were anxious but supportive and others we downright dubious. Both Thomas and I have made BIG decisions before and were undeterred by the few naysayers. Moreover, and rather miraculously, we both trusted our intuition – our knowing – about one another. We “knew” and still “know” that this is the relationship we’d each been waiting for all our lives AND we had the courage to take the big step.

So as a career coach why am I telling you this story (other than to account for my blogging downtime)? Because with job choices, you must develop a knowing of what is right and good for you. No one can do this for you. This gift of knowing is much like wisdom; it comes with age and self-awareness. Knowing is distinguished from wisdom in that you need courage. You need courage to trust the knowing and if you “know” you need the courage to act. I’ve heard people say “I knew I stayed in that job too long, but…” But, what? You ignored your knowing, that inner voice? Or was it that you didn’t trust yourself or that you didn’t have the courage to act? Be honest with yourself and find the courage to know, to trust and to act. I did and I couldn’t be happier!