Prioritizing You – Career Transition Essentials

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The Personal Experience

The upcoming transition from your career comes with a blend of thoughts and feelings that vary widely. They reflect the temperament, personalities and circumstances of those of you who are anticipating it or actually going through it.

Pondering vs. Planning and Acting 

The thinking that relates to planning can range from delayed and minimal to proactive and substantial. In the case of the former, the results are often evident as a much less favorable outcome than what it could have been with timely planning and execution. The latter approach is usually manifested by a significantly greater degree of success and satisfaction. 

The feelings that you will likely experience can also vary widely: from joy of anticipation to downright dread. The former is commonly experienced by of those who plan proactively, whereas the latter is more likely the outcome for those who do not.

How You Benefit

Proactive, deliberate planning to achieve specific goals is the key to your success. The most significant first step that you can take is to become the leader of your career transition. Prepare yourself, your spouse and your family. This will result in immediate benefits as many doubts will dissipate. That is the focus of this article.

In addition to numerous personal benefits, the process of achieving a clear vision of your future lifestyle will facilitate the answers to other questions later on. You will minimize uncertainty that would inevitably cause indecision, delays and missed opportunities.These relate to additional important personal as well as professional matters. Without clarity, they can become obstacles that obstruct your progress.

Questions and concerns about internal, external identity and persona are commonly experienced within the realm of human nature; yet, they are discussed infrequently. For now, these are some practical ideas for you to consider.

Personal Questions, Actionable Answers

• Why do you want to end your career electively?
• Do you want to stop completely or through a gradual transition phase?
• Do you want to execute a succession plan and mentor an associate?
• Do you want to sell your enterprise outright?
• Do you want to close your enterprise?
• Are you prepared financially to end your career?
• What will you do afterwards?
• Have you identified other activities that will continue to fulfill your purpose in life?
• Have you identified other activities that will fulfill your desire for fun?
• How do you foresee achieving a balance between you needs and desires?
• Where will you live? Second home? Buy, lease?
• If you live elsewhere close to Nature, what about weather, access to travel, medical care, etc?
• Where is that place on earth where you consistently feel in “the moment” just by being there?
• What does your spouse want?
• What about your family’s needs?

Many of these questions and related answers are elements of the Post Career Lifestyle Plan that I have previously discussed.

A Certain Beauty 

It is very difficult if not impossible to predict the future, especially if you have not been an active participant in shaping it. It is a beautiful thing to live the life you will have envisioned and created by purposeful, proactive planning.

I encourage you to seize your moments and create your future.

 Plan. Prepare. Prosper. _TM

Updated: Friday, August 1, 2025

PS: Would you like to learn more about how to transition successfully from your career? I provide services to physicians, non-medical professionals, corporate executives, businessmen and entrepreneurs that are tailored to their specific needs. Click here to request an introductory conversation.

If you would like to learn about another way that I can guide you, check out this brief video that describes my unique online course: 

 The Practice Transition Course for Physicians. _TM   

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