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# Time to change: 4 signs that you need to take action
- URL: https://www.aliciamckay.co.nz/time-to-change-4-signs-that-you-need-to-take-action/
- Published: 2022-10-26T21:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-01T10:20:05.000Z
- Description: There are 4 key signs that it's time to change. Check them out.
- Author: Alicia McKay
- Tags: Change, #wednesday-wisdom

In a recent Wednesday Wonder, I asked you how you know it's time to change something in your life - what the signs are, and how you know whether to act on those signals.

The theme was overwhelmingly consistent - it was all about energy, motivation and frustration. Heaps of you suffer physically, experiencing disrupted sleep, gut and poor wellbeing when things aren't right.

Then I asked how you knew whether to *act* on those signals or not. Here's what you said:

### 1\. It doesn't go away

*"Recurrence, frustration, more than one function or team or sector of business is negatively impacted e.g. momentum is waning or lost"*

*"If the feeling is always there, no matter the external circumstances (no matter the weather, the people I'm with, the work that is being done).."*

*"If that sense of not learning and growing is still there after a reasonable length of time - sometimes that's a couple of months, sometimes that could be as long as a year. When I know it's not just a blip."*

### 2\. You've talked it through.

*"I like to give it pondering time and then air-time (talk about it with loving critics - trusted friends who are straight shooters) and usually then feel strongly about a path forward."*

*"Talk to colleagues and friends, gather thoughts opinions and other perspectives."*

### 3\. You've taken space to reflect

*"Give it a bit of time - is it me, or is it the situation? Weigh up what is the worst case scenario and test my own comfort with that outcome."*

*"Typically I have to stop and assess what is really going on. Is it the thing I am working on, or something else influencing me at a deeper level? I also ask if it is something I can control now, or something that I should make sure I don't repeat in the future."*

*"I explore the factors that are troubling me, practice my mindfulness, and try to determine whether my stressors or real or perceived."*

### 4\. You just... feel it.

*"When the gnawing in your gut gets too much and you want it to go away."*

*"Internal sanity check. Listen to myself. I'll know."*

*"I feel in my gut a deep seated urge to act- like it's self preservation."*