How's "your" atmosphere: ...

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Lets start with "Numero uno". How do you like your job? I bet you are not completely satisfied with the choice you have made. So let me ask you a few more question. I'm going to put them in list form and I would like you to answer them not for me, but for yourself. Please keep in mind that I am not a professional therapist or psychiatrist. I am just someone who has had to ask myself all of these questions, and has been down the road of constant sorrow when it comes to feeling like I'm at a dead end.

1. What made you choose your profession?

2. How long have you been at your current job?

3. Do you consider any of your co-workers your friends?

4. Is your boss understanding? And does he/she make it a point to get to know you?
         (this one can be controversial because there is a line between just trying to get to know their employees and harassment.)

5. Do you go to work to forget your outside problems? And is that the only reason you go?

6. Are you constantly trying to think of new ways to create your own business? Or are you always looking in the classifieds for something better?

7. Is there lots of drama at your job and wish people would just grow up and do their work?

I'm keeping it at seven. There are seven days in a week and one question to work at per day. Although some of them seem easy enough to answer more than one, I want you to just ask yourself one of these questions at a time. They don't need to be in this order. But if you take just one question with you to work a day and really give it some thought it just might help you get back to where you need to be for your own mental sanity. I have had to do this myself and it has really helped me let go of a lot of negativity in my own mind that revolves around my job. And has also sent me in the direction I was meant to be in career wise.
Breaking it down for you. I am going to discuss each question over the next seven days. So come back to read my advice for the other questions.

1. You probably chose this profession for a couple different reasons.
     a. You went to college and paid a lot of money for a degree.
     b. This was the only job available at the time you were looking.
     c. Or you really wanted this job at the time but now you fail to understand why.

I want you to really decipher this one. This one is actually really big. Believe it or not there are still people in their late fifties and sixties still trying to figure out what to do with their career. Even though they should be thinking about retiring.
Go back to when you first took the job. Try to remember what made you take it, and how you felt at that exact moment. Were you happy, relieved, or did you take the job because you needed it and it was your only option.
I really hope you were super stoked about getting the job. If you were, try to remember how your first few weeks were, or even your first few months. Now think about where you started to go downhill. What was the very thing that made you slowly start regretting your career choice. Was it a co-worker? A manager? The every day grind of the same old repetitious work? Maybe you work with customers and you have finally had the last straw with rude inconsiderate people? Whatever it was, I want you to think about it. I am sorry to bring up the past, but this is how you can help your future. Bring yourself way back to how happy you were. Now really think about it for a minute. Wouldn't it be great to feel that passionate about your job again? Now think about the problem starter. Are you still having the same issues? Or is the issue gone but it took so much out of you that it left you with a sore spot about your job? This is where you need to let go and find a way to move past your problem, and get back to basics.
The thing that has helped me is making a list of what makes me like my job. What do you have to be proud of? Do you work hard? Then think about those things everyday. The more positive you feel about the job that you do personally, the happier you can be. And the hard task at hand, not letting the problems get to you. This is not easy. Believe me. It took me five years to realize that I was going about my job the wrong way. All I want you to know is that there is more than once way to solve a problem. For example: 1+4 = 5, and 2+3 = 5. Which way are you going to solve the problem. There is always more than one solution for everything. Learn to let go, and sometimes ignore the problem.
I tell my kids that if someone is picking on you just ignore them. They don't get the result they want so they move on.
So really think about this one. I don't usually like to bring work home with me, but I am going to make one last suggestion. Make a bath, get a glass of wine, (or beer if that's more suiting) and.4/ turn on some music. If you don't do baths then go somewhere that you find relaxing. And not in front of the tv. And just lose yourself in the moment. And then use that moment to do some soul searching. Bring a notepad if that helps. I try to write down as much as I can. That way if I came up with a good idea I won't forget it.
So good luck with this one and if you want to know about question two then come back tomorrow for my next blog.

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