Time to take the quiz: 15 seconds. Time to read: 1.5 minutes. Time to refine your life: forever
Hey Corporate Rebels!
Before you read further, please take this quiz. Answer yes/no. Consider how you spend most of your time.
Do you feel well used at the end of the day? (This question considers a sense of purpose.)
Do you spend your day on things that are important to you? (This question highlights values and priorities.)
Do you spend your time with people who matter to you? (This question points to balance and connection.)
Do you enjoy yourself? (This question considers energy.)
Hold on to your answers for a second.
In the past few weeks, I have talked with professionals across industries and age-groups, from young scientists to seasoned real estate mavens to recent college graduates. In a word, people are restless. The past year stripped away most things (dating, sports, travel) and left many people with work, laundry, homeschooling, and if you were lucky, roommates you like.
When life was reduced to work and Netflix, many people starting asking, is this enough? When you just spent a year staring your mortality in the face, is this how you want to spend the next 10-20-50 years?
Most of you are probably not planning to quit your job and head out on the open road (although I have talked to quite a few in all age groups who are doing some version of that).
Some well timed and considered refinements will bring your work and life back into alignment with what you want.
Now back to the quiz.
If you answered yes to all four questions, awesome. You have crafted work and life on your terms.
If you answered no to any of the questions or if the questions made you wonder, consider what it would take to bring your work and life back on your terms. What can you refine? What can you ask for? What do you want to change?
Here are some ideas to start your thinking:
- fire up an old hobby
- ask to go part-time
- ask for summer hours (Fridays off?)
- teach a class
- be home for bedtime every night
- rest
- quit your job and head out on the open road
My partner, Anne and I are doing a free 4-session live event in May, June and July to help you recover from the past year and get your work and life realigned with where you are now. The Corporate Rebel Rebooting U: Recover, Refresh, Re-emerge starts May 21. You can get more information and sign up here.
Please join us!
Love to you!