How 30–60 Days Can Transform Your Career
The content in this article is inspired by Shobna Kannusamy’s recent WORTHshop, where we explored what it means to reimagine growth in a way that feels human, grounded, and actually doable. Many of the concepts here come directly from her session. You can rewatch it here.
Most people think career growth starts with a dramatic leap: a new job, a bold decision, a total transformation. But real growth starts today. At this moment. Right where you are.
This is your invitation. To push yourself. To ask yourself “what do I need?”
This one question can change everything.
How to Build a 30–60 Day Experiment That Works
1. Name Your Season
Which season feels closest to where you are right now?
Possibility: something new is calling
Strengthening: building skills or confidence
Redirection: this isn’t right anymore
Integration: absorbing your past season of growth
Your season shapes the tone of your next step.
2. Name What You Need
Growth isn’t just about what you want, it’s about what you need in order to feel grounded, steady, and capable of moving forward.
This is your real goal.
Not “achieve X.”
Not “become Y.”
But build the ingredients that help you thrive.
Your ingredients might be things like:
Clarity
Encouragement
Courage
Stability
Creativity
Quiet
Feedback
Community
Structure
Rest
Learning
Flexibility
Boundaries
Connection
Security
Once you’ve named your ingredients, the thing you know you need more of, your experiment becomes a way of practising, strengthening, or inviting that ingredient into your everyday life.
3. Choose the Smallest Possible Action
Once you know your ingredient, choose a tiny action that helps you practice or cultivate it in your real, everyday life.
If your ingredient is clarity, your experiment might be one 10-minute reflection at the end of each workday, or asking one clarifying question in each meeting.
If your ingredient is confidence, your experiment might be sharing one win a week, or speaking in the first five minutes of a meeting.
If your ingredient is support, your experiment might be asking for help once a week, or checking in with a colleague instead of solving everything alone
The action is tiny. The meaning is not.
4. Use the Two-Question Litmus Test
Before committing to your experiment, ask:
If I ignore this, what happens?
If I lean in, what happens?
If ignoring it keeps you stuck and leaning in feels stretchy-but-safe, that’s your experiment.
5. Tell One Person
Share your experiment with someone in your circle, a colleague, a friend, a mentor, anyone who feels safe. Community can turn a wobbly experiment into something that feels real and doable.
“Ready” is a myth. “Willing” is where change begins.
You don’t need perfect timing. You don’t need confidence first. You don’t need a clear five-year plan.
You just need one small experiment, one tiny, doable signal to yourself that you’re choosing growth in the life you have right now.