“I’m not short on direction. I have too many.”
If that sounds like you, Crossroads walks you through four steps to step back, see the whole picture, and then decide where to go.
When you’re standing at a crossroads, you can only see the stretch of road right in front of you. Crossroads helps you rise above it, like a drone, so you can see what you’re wrestling with on each road and find the question that actually matters, instead of going around in circles over a single option.
What keeps people stuck is rarely a lack of options. It’s usually:
It won’t hand you an answer. It shows you where you’re struggling, and why you hesitate.
See the whole picture of the decision you’re facing.
Find where your effort will count most right now.
Explore what truly matters to you.
Come up with other ways to reach that goal.
In the session, a few pen-and-paper exercises walk you through each step.
“I was at a crossroads in my career when I met George, whose mentorship provided clarity and direction.”
“The facilitation felt natural, and it was easy for participants to trust it.”
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Workshops averaged 9.2/10, with 82% rating them 9 or higher
“Who told you that you have to hit this timeline, or reach this goal?”
“…The workshops I’ve enjoyed have always been fast-paced and packed. This may be the first time I caught myself wishing, ‘I want time to slow down, to last a little longer.’”
“I loved the style of this workshop. It felt safe to speak openly, and I didn’t have to force myself to spend social energy. I felt truly held.”
“When I saw where each road ends, I realized the end point of staying put is pretty terrible.”
“For the first time, I sat down quietly in a place where no one knew me, and used pen and paper to write out and rank the options at my career crossroads… As an adult, I’ve probably only felt this kind of ‘pure focus’ in yoga class. I had never reached that state while thinking about my career.”
“I realized the goal I want most doesn’t have to be reached through the options I already have. Taking away a lot of the filters let me see my own heart more clearly.”
“As we added more filters, I found out what really matters to me, and I could let go, more decisively, of the noise that used to make me anxious or tense.”
My own life keeps bringing me to crossroads: whether to stop resuscitation for my grandfather as his condition worsened, whether to keep working on a relationship or let it go, whether to accept an offer from the University of California, and whether to give up an offer in India.
Every one of those crossroads came with too many things to weigh: money, family, partner, habits, health, interests... All of it had to be ranked and traded off, and each one put my soul to the test: What do I care about? What do I pay attention to? How do I make a choice?
Because I know how hard these roads were for me, I want to help you walk yours with fewer wrong turns.
Today I’m Coach Chiao (George): a certified Designing Your Life coach and a former Amazon engineer and Bar Raiser. I’ve helped 300+ people land offers across 20 countries.
Have an offer and a deadline? Book a 1:1. Still finding your direction? Join the Mandarin workshop waitlist.
