Welcome to The Unstuck Collection. As you listen to Unstuck, you’ll hear references to companion resources designed to help you apply the ideas in the book to your own career-life crossroads.
You’ll find them all gathered here, organised so you can pause, reflect and take one small, safe step at a time.
Click any image below to access the exercises, assessments and tools linked to each chapter of Unstuck.
Start Here: Discover Your ACT Type
Take the ACT Type Quiz to discover where you may be getting stuck.
Getting stuck isn’t a failure. It’s useful information about what needs attention next.
First Tools for Getting Unstuck
Now you have a clearer sense of where you feel stuck, this first collection will help you begin gently: clarify what may need to change, shift perspective and start turning insight into action.
The Lost Chapter
A bonus chapter exploring 11 hidden forces that can keep you stuck, with reflective prompts to help you see what needs to shift.
ACT 1: Align
Your Personal Career Compass: Start With Strengths
Discover and apply your strengths to design a career that energises rather than drains you (Chapter 1).
The Value of Values
Clarify what matters most so your career-life choices reflect your most closely held priorities (Chapter 2).
Realign With Purpose
Go on a guided visualisation to illuminate what will give your work a strong sense of purpose (Chapter 3).
ACT 2: Purposeful Career Redesign
Explore multiple career-life pathways using a helpful brainstorming tool, before committing to your preferred redesign (Chapter 4).
Activate Your Agile Career
Move from reflection and ideation into action with a practical framework for your What Next Quest (Chapter 5).
ACT 3: Transform
It’s your career-life story. A storytelling framework to help you write it well – and edit your next chapter (Chapter 6).
Work Hard & Hope Isn’t A Strategy
Map your hopes to understand the things that have the power to hold you stuck – and how to navigate them so they can’t (Chapter 7).
Confidence Resources
Explore the companion course to go deeper with the complete Purposeful Career Redesign learning experience.
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