By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
Most of you probably don’t hate your jobs, but there are a lot of people who do. What can you do so that your job doesn’t eat you up from the inside?
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This article is titled “What to do when you’re in a job you hate” or you feel like you’re stuck in a job you hate. This is a simple piece of advice from the days of Marshall Goldsmith. Marshall is an international coach. He has written many wonderful books from a coaching perspective, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Triggers, and many more.
BTW, Dr. Goldsmith commented that he is Buddhist, please feel free to share my information. He’s very good at this kind of thing.
Not long ago he published an article on LinkedIn posing this very question. He said you have a few options. One option is to suffer day after day until you get fired for having a bad attitude or find another job that you like better. That’s absolutely true, and God knows, when I was in recruiting, most people came to me when they decided they needed another job. At the same time, you are in a situation that makes you miserable.
So, what other options are there to create joy and meaning in your work life, regardless of your current circumstances? What he’s saying is that how to create joy and meaning when you’re stuck in a job you hate is to break your day into one-hour chunks.
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So, for example, you have to think about a one-hour meeting. You fear that this meeting will be pointless and unnecessary, and you fear everything about it. So, at the end of this boring, time-consuming meeting, you have four simple questions to ask yourself, are you ready?
“Am I doing my best to be happy?”
“Am I doing my best to find meaning?”
“Am I doing my best to build positive relationships?”
“Am I doing my best to put my heart and soul into it?”
So, he asked a provocative question.
“If you knew you were going to be tested, what would you do differently to improve your score on any of these four items?”
He wants you to rate your performance on a scale of 1 to 10 so that you can provide yourself with feedback on your performance cycle. Now, he’s worked with executives around the world, and when asked this question, they typically respond: “When I go into a meeting, I bring a positive attitude.”
Instead of waiting for someone else to make it fun, I make it fun myself. I try to engage the speakers in some way rather than criticizing them mentally. I try to build a positive relationship with someone. You get it.
His idea is simple. If you’re stuck in a job you hate, from now on, pretend you might be tested every hour. Basically, what’s going to happen, but your heart and your mind will thank you for it, every time you spend on this job, he says it’s an hour that you and I can’t get back. So why waste your time in idleness and cynicism? Take this personal responsibility, ask yourself these four questions, and overall, you’ll find yourself happier.
I know that when I coach people with this model. This works very well for them.
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