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1. Know what you want

Take a life perspective: what do you really want? What’s meaningful to you (and just as important, what’s meaningless?) How do you want your future to be? Get practical and be explicit.

Where is your energy high and light? What fires you up, where do you feel a positive emotional connection? How does this translate into the work you want to do? Clarifying and harmonising your vision for life and your vision for your work creates deep motivation. Set a powerful intention.

2. Be confident

When we want to change our line of work, we can sometimes be overcome by inadequacy that we don’t have the right experience. This is especially common if we’re already an expert in our current work.

Nurture your confidence by focussing on what experience you do have. What are your strengths? Where might the combination of skills you offer be especially useful – possibly different from the norm, but all the more interesting and valuable as a result? Change any struggle to flow.

3. Build your profile

Start with your own head. Imagine telling someone (who you don’t know) what you do. Respond as though you’ve already career shifted. Write out a new CV. Imagine being interviewed: develop a bank of thoughtful, well-researched answers.

Now build a profile in others’ eyes. Go to events where you’ll learn and meet interesting people. Contribute. Get involved. It’s you as a person as much as you as a collection of skills and knowledge that’s important. Get ‘you’ on the radar.

4. Take focussed action

If you (truly) need more experience, more qualifications, how best can you get them? If you need support or further resources, what will you do about that? If a move sideways will help, how will you engineer it?

If there’s a useful project that needs a volunteer, when will you sign up? Create the stepping stones, work out the strategies, build the bridges you need to take you to the work you want. Plan your most direct route. Become a laser beam.

5. Make it fun

Change happens best when we’re enjoying ourselves. When we feel happy and positive, we usually attract happy and positive events. So take a life perspective once more: what are you doing that’s fun? How are you keeping up your motivation and zest for life?

Do what feels good - really good, not simply grasping at immediate gratification. Give attention to making your life fun, and let that spill over into your quest for career change. You get what you focus on.