What if your next career move wasn't about climbing higher, but about diving deeper into what truly matters to you?
Experience moves in one direction, but growth doesn't have to.
Every professional milestone adds depth to your foundation, but it's your choice whether to build walls or doorways. The difference between leaders who feel constrained by their expertise and those who feel liberated by it isn't tenure, it's perspective.
Bob Dylan captured this beautifully: "I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now." He recognized that true professional maturity means staying curious rather than becoming certain.
Leaders I work with who radiate the most vitality share a common approach: they use their accumulated wisdom as a launching pad, not a landing place. They ask better questions because they've tested more hypotheses. They take strategic risks because they understand which risks actually create value.
This is the expansion mindset - viewing each professional milestone not as expertise locked in, but as wisdom earned for what's next. Your experience becomes the very thing that permits you to begin again, better equipped than ever.
Question
- How has professional wisdom become your ally for growth rather than your excuse for staying put?
- How could your professional experience become the foundation for something completely new rather than a reason to stay where you are?
Your accumulated experience has equipped you for possibilities you couldn't have imagined earlier in your career.
