When Your Career Path Isn’t a Ladder, But a Map

January 15, 2025

Who says life or your career has to follow a straight line? Manager to director, director to VP—it’s the path we’re taught to take, but is it the one that truly feeds your soul? What if the real goal isn’t about climbing a ladder but about following a map—your map, one shaped by what truly excites and fulfills you?

Sometimes, stepping off the expected path leads to the life you’re meant to live. A software director managing a laundromat. A lawyer opening a surf school. A nurse becoming a baker. It’s not about abandoning success but redefining what success means to you.

We’re taught to pick a discipline and wear that label for life. But life isn’t about fitting into a box; it’s about discovering who you are outside of it. You’re allowed to change, to reinvent, to look the same but become someone entirely new.

Good work flows when it’s your soul’s mission. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And while you can be great at a job, your soul’s mission is something you live. It doesn’t feel like work; it feels like alignment.

So, ask yourself: Are you chasing a title or feeding your soul?

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