Not Happy in Your Career?

Do you know the number one reason most people aren’t happy in their career?

All too often I hear the words “I’m not happy in my job” followed by any number of reasons why…

I don’t like my Boss
I don’t like the people I work with
The work is too boring
The travel time is getting worse
I never get any recognition
The work load is too much
There is no leadership ………..and the list goes on

The number one reason isn’t any of those!!!

Can you imagine how many times you have complained about what you don’t like in your job!

Now what strikes me odd about the conversations I have is that so few times can people tell me what they would rather be doing instead?

Imagine even if just for fun you chose to spend your time actually focusing on what you did like to do and what you could be instead! How much more rewarding your day would be?

If only people knew what they wanted to do instead!

Not sure where to start? It’s a simply as getting back to the dreams and ideas you had when you were a child. Remember that feeling of being invisible, the whole world an oyster for you to explore…

It’s been said that once a mind has been stretched by a new idea it can never again return to its original state! What would it take to have a new idea special enough for one to change? That has to mean your ideas are still there just lost in the labyrinth we call a mind and if you are really board with your job you can play the maze game to unlock what it is you really want to spend your day doing!

There are a FEW small steps that we can all take if we are seriously not happy at work….

1) List all the “jobs” you thought would be fun when you were young enough to dream.
2) Now from that list what do you feel it was about that “job” you thought was going to be exciting?
3) See your self in that role, hear the noises around you and feel how great it feels to jump out of bed in the morning ready for a new day
4) What would it take for you to believe all that is possible?

Possibility is only limited by the mind so “think you can and you can think you can’t and you’re right”.

There in lies the number one reason most people aren’t happy in their job…

They have bought into their limits, accepted every day mediocrity and settled for the easy option. Lack of belief in self is the only reason that keeps us in a job that doesn’t fill those dreams we had as a child and still today as a grown adult secretly dream of

So why not dream a little, live a little and be a little more like the child you were and believe you can be what ever you choose to be!