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Gianna Cifredo is a higher education professional and writer. She is working on a novel, spends her free time in her garden, and dreams of raising chickens. You can find her on Instagram at @gcifredo.

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How to Feel More in Control When Life Gets Overwhelming

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ~Confucius

I’m in the middle of a career transition and it hasn’t been easy. For the first few months after quitting my job—a job which I thought should have been perfect, where I thought I would stay for years—I was paralyzed into inaction regarding anything career-related. I had lost confidence in my own judgment; after all, I had thought that job would be the one and it wasn’t, so did I even really know what I wanted?

This kind of self-doubt makes …