How to plan for what will go wrong in your career

• Many of us assume job security, but any job someone gives you can be taken away. You may also wake up and decide the job you have isn’t what you wanted at all, which is another way things change.
• To thrive in a world of flux, think about your career more like a portfolio you curate rather than a singular path to pursue.
• Thinking you’ll succeed if you make it down a predetermined path leads to a lot of hurt, disappointment, and a potential identity crisis when the path doesn’t work out or you decide it’s not the path you want to be on. 

Get clear on your relationship with change and control. Some people are fine with little changes, but mega-meta changes completely unravel them. Others are good with big picture changes, but the small things unravel them. 

When you find your triggers, level up your self-awareness and get clear that you are in the driver’s seat of how you respond but not in the driver’s seat of the actual end result.