5 Principles to Shift Career Confusion into Clarity Even When You Feel Lost
- Dilek Süzal
- May 7
- 2 min read
Updated: May 8
Ever felt like you're stuck at a career crossroads, wondering if you’re wasting your potential?
Problem: Feeling stuck, doubting career direction, fear of making wrong moves.
Being unsure about your career direction often leads to second-guessing yourself and missed opportunities.
Solution: Build Career Clarity by design, not by default.
Career clarity isn't a one-time lightning strike! It's a continuous architecture, built through self-awareness, experimentation, and honest reflection.
As Richard N. Bolles shares in 'What Color Is Your Parachute?', true career clarity begins not with job hunting, but with self-inventory, understanding your strengths, passions, and values first, and letting them guide your next move!
🎯 And here’s what I know personally:
I am an architect by trade. After holding a master’s degree and working in the field for over 15 years, I felt an undeniable inner calling to change my path, but I was completely lost. Through countless self-help books, career events, TED talks, and most importantly, working with a career coach, I slowly uncovered what truly spoke to my heart: coaching.
I booked a one-module training just to "check it out." I fell in love. I completed the training, observed brilliant coaches, received coaching myself, and step by step, found clarity.
✨ If you feel lost, trust that clarity comes from movement, not from standing still.
Here are 5 principles that helped me and my clients in Career Clarity Project program to confidently move forward:
🔹 #1 - Follow Your Energy: Track the tasks and moments that energize you, they leave clues about your calling.
🔹 #2 - Anchor to Your Values: When your work aligns with your core values, fulfilment follows naturally.
🔹 #3 - Test with Micro-Pivots: Experiment through small shifts, a side project, a new responsibility, a volunteer gig.
🔹 #4 - Try Before You Decide: Shadow someone, take a short course, or do a mini project, reality beats assumptions.
🔹 #5 - Move to Find Your Groove: Clarity comes through action, not just thinking. Start small, adjust fast.
✨ Career clarity isn't found. It is structured and building it is easier that you think!
Which principle(s) are you willing to try?
Warmly,
Dilek
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★ Lead Coach at the global coaching platform BetterUp based in USA.
★ Executive Coach and Trainer at SparkUs based in Turkey and Netherlands.
★ Impact Partner for coaching, training & facilitation projects at leadership experts Think Beyond Group based in Austria.
★ Leadership Coach at Percoms AG, based in Switzerland.
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