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Know Yourself!

The Role of Anxiety
in Taking that Job Abroad

It is not uncommon for people to accept jobs abroad and due to their anxiety bail out before leaving to take the job.

Or even going overseas and bailing on their job in
the first week or two.

Much of this comes about due to their misunderstanding
of the anxiety they are feeling due to the changes in their life.

It is critically important that you look at the anxiety that such a transition brings
and understand it for what it is: A sign that you are growing and challenging
yourself in new ways.

That’s a good thing!

It is common and even probably a good thing to have sleepless nights and second thoughts about taking a job overseas, moving overseas, changing your life dramatically.

Though the author of this website has lived in the USA, Botswana, Korea, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Thailand - all of them for at least 18 months and several for five years or more - even he still gets nervous and worries about changing jobs and changing countries. 

It's normal!

The role of anxiety in life transitions are to let you know that you are stretching the cocoon of your perhaps already too comfortable existence.

If you never felt nervous or if you were never concerned about anything, that means you are never challenging yourself. It means you are never stretching the boundaries of a life that you want to change - and that’s exactly why you are reading this!

It means you are not bringing growth and change to your life. It probably also means you are bored with your life. 

You should be MORE worried if you are NOT feeling anxiety!

That means no change, no improvement, no growth, no nothing.

Is that what you really want?

Five years from now will you say,
"I'm glad I did" or "I wish I had"?