Do you have a big, bold, scary, secret, wild, bodacious goal you're trying to tackle?  Are the days, weeks and months slipping away and you can't seem to gain traction? You need to make it a project.  Nobody knows better than I do that mid-career transitions can be time-consuming.  And if you're really unhappy in your current situation, the last thing you need or want is to have your project drag on into infinity.  It's a sure way of driving your goal into the ground. I called mine The Thursday Project.  Having been in my job for several years, I was feeling underutilized, undervalued and under the weather too much of the time.  I'd danced around the edges of self-employment a…