In this solo video, Natalie Fisher addresses people who feel stuck or confused about choosing a career. She argues that career choices are not inherently right or wrong; instead, clarity comes from taking concrete action rather than endless thinking. Using her own experience of learning to ride a motorbike, she shows how a short‑term experiment (6 months to a year) can reveal whether a path is a fit. Fisher warns against the myth that a career must be a lifelong, perfectly‑chosen decision and critiques the habit of over‑thinking, which she says only adds confusion. She encourages viewers to embrace discomfort, commit to a limited trial period, and then re‑decide based on real experience. At the end she promotes a free online workshop that teaches a step‑by‑step process for gaining career clarity.
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All right, welcome to this week's video. How to decide what career you want, what job you want. If you have ever doubted if you're in the right career, if you've considered changing careers but you're not sure what to do, or you're feeling confused, uncertain about what to do next, this video is for you. So stay tuned. All right, the idea of confusion comes from thinking that there is a right or wrong decision. But what if there was no bad decision or right or wrong? You just make the decision and then you still create your life from the results of whatever you choose. So you're still in control of whether or not that decision is good or bad. So what if whatever you picked was the right decision because you decided to make it so? In life, we're, we're taught to choose the quote unquote right path, but that right or wrong isn't meant for decisions like, should I do project management or business and Or should I go to chef school, or should I be a tour guide? Those decisions—there's no right or wrong. The right or wrong comes into play when it's like, should I steal that, or should I pay for it? You know, or should I lie, or should I tell the truth? Those are very obvious right or wrongs. However, choosing a career path—that is not right or wrong. Okay, you could choose either one and decide. You are always choosing something. So you're either choosing your fear, you're choosing your comfort— that's confusion and overwhelm because that's more comfortable— or you're choosing to take a step forward, and that step might be scary. So clarity comes from action, not from thought. So for example, I went and got my motorbike license, and I rode a motorbike for about a year. Wow. And I was terrified. I went on a few long road trips, failed the test the first time, but then succeeded getting my license the second time. And I did not like it. So I gave it a good try, I did it for a year, and I decided that's not for me. But I would have never known that had I not done it. So if I hadn't done that, I might be sitting here today thinking, I really should get my motorcycle license. It's really something I've wanted to do for a while. I really should do it, but I don't know if it's the right decision. That's how I got clarity around whether or not riding a motorbike was for me. So that's the only way you can get clarity, because I could read a book on riding a motorbike, I could read a lot of books, I could watch people doing it, but the only way I'm gonna know if I really like it is going and getting on that bike, giving it a good try, going on a few long trips, seeing how I feel, assessing if I like it or don't like it. And then I get to re-decide, do I wanna keep riding a motorbike or do I wanna go back to driving my car? Clarity comes from action, not from thinking, not from reading a book, not from consuming information. It comes from doing. The caveat is you need to be willing to feel that discomfort when you're making that decision and you need to be willing to be a bit uncomfortable as you're figuring it out along the way because that's how you move forward. So yes, it was very uncomfortable for me to learn to ride a motorbike. And it was uncomfortable for the first going off. And even like at the end of the year, I was pretty comfortable on the bike, but I didn't wanna ride it anymore. So it does take discomfort, especially in the beginning. Most people believe that you need to choose the right thing and that you're choosing it for the rest of your life. So that's another big heavy thing people put on themselves. They think, oh, well, if I choose this, I need to be absolutely sure it's right. And that's why they put so much pressure on the decision. But that's not true. It's a complete myth. You can decide to do something for 6 months and then re-decide. Do I still like it? Is this what I thought it was going to be? Do I want to do it? Or you can decide to do something for 1 year. In the grand scheme of things, 1 year of your life or 6 months of your life, not a super long time, and you can re-decide. So making that decision, you might think, oh well, I'm gonna— you know, some people, they'll say, I need to think about this, and they'll think about it for 6 months. They'll literally think about something for 6 months. And then make the decision. But when they make the decision, they're no farther ahead. They think they are because they think they have a really well-thought-out decision and that waiting all that time was really useful and beneficial, but really it got them the same thing in the end, right? And less, 'cause they don't— they have less results to assess. They have less data points to make a good decision now. Like, do I like it? Do I wanna continue or do I wanna change it? Do I wanna go back to what I was doing? So I can't stress enough, doing is your fastest way to clarity. Now it feels better to say, I just need more time to think about it, I just need to sleep on it, or I just need more information first. But what will more information get you? What will more time thinking about it actually get you? It's actually going to get you more confusion, and it's just going to get you to overthink. And the more information you have, the more confused we are. So this is a really hard concept for most people to get, and it just means that everything in your life takes longer. So if you made a decision right now and you had your own back with whatever that decision was, so you said, you know, Whatever I decide, I'm gonna support myself. There is no right or wrong when choosing a career path. Then you would make your decisions very differently. You would be like, okay, this is the decision I'm making. I'm in control of whether I make this decision a success. I'm gonna go for it 6 months, a year, and then I'm gonna recommit and we're gonna re-decide. So most people, they're gonna listen to this video and they're gonna say, you know, this is really interesting. Yeah, what you're saying is really interesting. And then they're gonna go back to thinking about it some more. If that's you, just keep in mind that if you want to think about it, you're staying comfortable, you're staying out of fear, you're not having courage. Okay, you need to have courage to take the next step, and that is how you're going to move faster in your life. You're going to get more done, you're going to achieve more, you're going to get to know yourself better. Or stay safe and think about it. The choice is up to you, up to you. If you want to learn more about getting clarity on what next steps to take, I have a free training on how to get clarity. So this is a free workshop. You can access it instantly by clicking the link below and filling out your name and email, and I will send you the link to that workshop. So it's more of an in-depth look at how to gain clarity, and I look forward to seeing you there. So thanks so much for watching. Give me a thumbs up if you liked the video, subscribe to the channel, and I will see you next week. Cool. Bye. If you don't know me yet, I'm Natalie Fisher. You can find me at www.nataliefisher.ca. That's my digital house. You can come visit me over there. Otherwise, I'll see you next week here on YouTube. All right, bye.
