In this video, let's talk about common pitfalls. Someone on their transition journey phases, starting with the first pitfall, limiting beliefs. You're thinking about your transition and transformation, I know this because you're watching the video. It's important to think about your military transition. What are you going to do? Where are you going to do it? When? But equally important is to examine how you're thinking about it. Oftentimes transitioning service members are limited, by their beliefs about themselves, their transition, and their options. I'm here to tell you that your transition can be the best thing that has ever happened to you. You should be excited for what's next. Unfortunately, all too often, transitioning service members have common limiting beliefs, that hold them back, before we're realizing their transformation opportunity. The first common limiting belief is that your military job determines your civilian career. Not true. You determine your civilian career. Military transitions are an excellent time to reinvent yourself, and you aren't alone. According to a Syracuse University Institutes for veterans and military families report, 55 percent of service members indicate they want to pursue a career different from their military specialty. I know there may be some constraints and trade-offs, but you decide what you want to do next. Next, a common limiting belief is that, if you're successful, you'll be happy. Now I can already hear people saying. "Cory, if I'm successful, I will be happy." You'd be right if you designed and obtained what you truly wanted. However, unfortunately, many transitioning service members measure success based on the prestige of the industry for which they're working, the name of the company where they're working at, and how much money they make. From experience, nine times out of 10, when I talk to service members that have obtained success measured by industry, company, and compensation, they are absolutely miserable. There are trade-offs. Perhaps it is being away from family and friends because of constant travel or working ridiculously long hours to make someone else's dream come true. As you move through this course, we'll work on identifying what means most to you. Don't worry, we'll help you define your own success and happiness. Additionally, a common limiting belief is that getting a job is easy. It's not. When I hear people landing a gig before they transition or soon after, it's typically because they had a plan, and they had hustled to make it happen. Or if I hear about someone without a plan, lucking out and landing a job quickly, they typically are very happy. Look, sometimes luck happens, but assuming getting a job is easy may limit your options after you separate. It all depends on your constraints, whether financial, geographic, or the many other requirements you may have. The last common limiting belief, for this course anyway, is that it's too late to get started. It's never too late. You watching this course will help you get started. You're right on time. By the time you finish this course, you'll have added quite a few tools to your transformation toolkit, and you'll have a few follow-up tools as well. Check your beliefs about your transition. Question whether or not what you believe about your limitations and constraints are true. Seek to identify where perceived limitations and constraints, may have some flexibility. Ask yourself, if it is a non negotiable. If you approach your transition with optimism and a growth mindset, you'll see opportunity on every corner and luck will happen. If you haven't started building your transition plan, that's okay, start today. Because in the next video, we're going to discuss the next common pitfall, not having a plan.