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The method
TRACE Career Alignment Method™
For when you’re done, or almost done, with where you are and have no real idea what comes next. Five moves (Track, Research, Attempt, Commit, and Embed) get you to a direction you can defend, with something to try at each one.
Walk the five movesWork through it with me
One step at a time. I mean that literally.
How it works
Pick a move and try it.
Where it fits
TRACE starts once you can breathe again.
Burnout recovery gets you stable. TRACE picks up from there, when you can act but you don’t trust your own direction yet. If you’re still in survival mode, it will feel like too much, so get stable first.
The path forks at Attempt. If the answer is a new job, the back half stays light. If the answer is building your own thing, it deepens into a business track with customer discovery, offer design, and a launch.
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How to figure out your next career
The full write-up of the method, for when you know you’re done with where you are and don’t yet know what comes next. It goes through the five moves in order and what to try at each one.
Opens on Substack.
- TTrack
- RResearch
- AAttempt
- CCommit
- EEmbed