Eight of Cups

You have outgrown this job and you are staying because leaving has to be justified and staying does not.

What would you say to a friend who described your job the way you describe yours?

Update the CV this week, before you have decided anything.

The financial arrangement you are in stopped fitting a while ago. You are staying because unpicking it is work.

What are you still paying for, in money or in time, that you have already emotionally cancelled?

Cancel one of those things this week.

You have emotionally left and physically stayed. They can probably feel the gap even if they cannot name it.

What are you waiting for that would make leaving acceptable?

Say one true thing about where you are this week, to them or to yourself in writing.

You are pretending the decision is still open. It is not. You are managing the timing of admitting it.

When did you actually decide?

Act on it this week as if you decided then.

Something in your life no longer fits, and you keep trying it on. The discomfort is not confusion. It is information you do not want.

What have you outgrown that you are still wearing because taking it off would be noticed?

Take it off this week, in one visible way.

You are done with this project, or this style, and you keep working on it out of loyalty. Loyalty to finished things is a way of not starting.

What would you be working on if you gave yourself permission to abandon this?

Abandon it today, formally, and begin that instead.