You’ve made a significant change. You just left school, or changed careers or retired; all of which held exciting potential for you. Yet you’re not happy. Do you know why?
You won’t know for awhile whether you made the right decision because you have some settling in to do, seeing how this fits you. What’s causing your unexpected grumpiness is being at a crossroads of your life. You are more familiar with the life you had before than the one you recently chose. So, this new place feels odd to you, uncomfortable, unfulfilling. You don’t have a routine, the road map.
The solution? Take a giant leap into your new life. New career? Spend long hours at it. Study the org charts and the industry. Expend greater effort to make new friends than to stay in touch with the old (some of them will still be there after you’ve adjusted). Do a housecleaning to get rid of the books and papers and symbols of what you were. You can bring them back. They are making you unhappy now. Bye Bye!
If you have retired, the same goes for you, but a better prescription is to get a structure: a part-time job, a volunteer gig, classes at the life-long learning institute. You don’t know how to sit at home.
Action and patience with yourself as you let go of the old will get you through this.
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