Keeping your enthusiasm at work.
When you feel like you're stuck at a soul crushing job, it's easy to lose your confidence and enthusiasm. It happens to all of us at one time or another. The key is to keep your attitude positive so that you can make a change.
Having a successful work life can have a huge affect on our entire lives.
If you've been thinking about quitting your job, now might not be the best time. Still, there are things you can do to revitalize your job without walking away entirely.
Trying to find balance at work is hard, but the secret to making big changes is to start small. Sometimes, it's just a little thing to jump start yourself and get out of the routine you are in.
Here are 4 things you can do to recharge your job:
- Write it down- If you have been at your job for a long amount of time, it is certain that you have learned strategies that work and have opinions about strategies that just don't work for you. I'm sure you've learned things that could be valuable to others who are just starting out. Write them down and think about how you could share them. Maybe you could write a blog, an e-book or even just prepare a presentation to share with others on your team.
- Recycle- Think about the things you've learned over the years. You probably have found some advice to be tried and true, and other things that don't work so well. Look at the things that don't work and find ways that they can be improved upon. Thinking about what you can do to achieve greater results could get you motivated and make you more interested in your job.
- Learn something new- Finding a challenge can be one of the best ways to jump start your job. Try taking a course in your job field, attend a workshop, take a class online or even just check out a book from the library that deals with your career field. Turning on your intellect makes you feel optimistic and more willing to try something new.
- Find new ways to use your talents- If you are serious about looking for a new career, spend some time looking at your talents objectively. You will find that many of them can cross over into other fields, and those may be fields that would give you the challenges you are looking for. It could be that what you are really unhappy with is the career field itself.
What do you think about these ideas? Have you ever had to stay in a job you hate?
By Melissa Kennedy- Melissa is a 9 year blog veteran and a freelance writer for ManufacturingWorkersBlog and Nexxt. Along with helping others find the job of their dreams, she enjoys computer geekery, raising a teenager, supporting her local library, writing about herself in the third person and working on her next novel.
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