[nagdu] feeling stuck

[Julie J.]

Hannah,

I like to use the five year test.   I pretend I'm five years in the 
future.  I consider each of my options from the present and what each 
will look like in five years.    Then I choose the option that best 
matches where I want to be in five years.  Of course there is no actual 
way to predict the future, but this exercise does help me quite a bit in 
clarifying exactly what is important to me in the long term and what is 
important to me right now.   Sometimes those are the same things and 
sometimes I see that by giving up something that I think I want right 
now, I will be getting something better in the long term.

Julie