Listening to endless uncomfortable stories about how people were made redundant shows there is a real need for support. As someone who has been made redundant, and who has had to tell people their jobs have gone, I can empathise that the situation is challenging and pressured for all parties. Line Managers need as much support as individuals affected. And if this support is in place, then the experience is better for everyone involved.

Before you ditch your 9 to 5 take time to think about what it is that’s making you feel stuck. While you are in the great place of earning money while you think about it, you can afford the time to thinker deeper about causes, the role you play in your what you are feeling, and be clearer on what you want to happen next.

“Our negative bias, which keeps us safe and minimises risk, unfortunately keeps us stuck. To change something in your life you have to start somewhere. Tiny habits puts you over the line towards change, all you have to do is keep looking forward, don’t take a step back, do small achievable steps and you’ll start to create the shift”.

This is a temporary situation. Take some sensible action now to give yourself space to think and breathe. Trust yourself. You will find a solution. You’ve got this.

Books can change your life. If you were to spend an hour of time with the author it would cost you a whole lot more than the £9.99 you’ve just spent on their 80,000 words of wisdom. So if all that knowledge and wisdom is out there, why is it still so hard to act? Because we have to know what to do with it. Because we have to believe we can do something with it. Because we have to do something with it. We have to. No-one else.

So read the books. Listen to the webinars. Get people around you to support you all the way. And then take action. Do what the book says. Follow the action. And keep going. Always.

Guest blog by Anonymous contributor. “There are three things I didn’t know when being made redundant that I’ve not heard anyone talk about. There are more than three things I didn’t know clearly, but my point is that these are three things I never heard anyone mention. The first two are lighter, maybe contemporary topics. The third one is a more anxious issue.”

There are some jobs that people just don’t want to find themselves having to work with. But how reassuring to know that if you ever need that help, it’s here, maybe not wearing a cape and flying through the sky, but here.

Too much stuff, too much busyness, too much ‘to-do-list-itous’ is not the same as being productive. The feeling of having ‘a lot on’ is not the same as making progress. And when you finish each day exhausted but you still feel like you haven’t achieved anything, then stuckness sets in.

Most cliche givers means well. Their advice is drawn from set pieces, well-trodden paths, and as Russell Brand says ‘things that people say when they cant think quick enough to say anything else’. It’s painful to hear because it doesn’t feel its offering much. Cliches carry little comfort, wisdom or advice. And often cliches are totally untrue, or at least the sentiment is not true.

From dreading doing my accounts, to planning 2019, to launching an online course on how to launch a product based business! My tax return turned out to be a lot more pleasurable than I’d imaged!