Whilst researching for my next book, ‘how to make partner and still have a life‘, I spoke to many professionals who felt as if their career had come to a full stop. Here is a list of the many reasons they stated (and I’ve noticed) why professionals lose their career mojo:

1. Bored
2. Don’t trust your firm/organisation
3. Don’t trust your partner
4. Don’t trust your mentor
5. Don’t trust your counseling/line/staff/appraising manager
6. Don’t want to make any sacrifices to progress your career
7. Don’t know how to market yourself
8. Don’t have any appetite to market yourself
9. Don’t know how to communicate your personal brand to the people who matter
10. Don’t know how to show your strengths to others
11. Analysing everything to death
12. Too deep in your career comfort zone
13. Waiting for things to happen
14. Expecting others to make things happen
15. Not prepared to take a chance on your career
16. Large changes happening in your personal life, e.g. getting married, getting divorced, bereavement
17. Know you are in the wrong job
18. Too stressed
19. Worried that you will lose your job
20. Waiting until your firm does lay you off
21. Know you are in the wrong profession
22. Having a tough time with a client or series of clients
23. Struggling to acquire the new skills required in your role or the next role up
24. Sleep deprived
25. Clinically depressed
26. Suffering from a long term illness, such as chronic fatigue syndrome
27. 27. Waiting for your boss or someone else to retire or leave the firm so you can have their job

 What else would you add to this list?