Time to read: So short and so relevant
FREE!
When you look around your career, do you feel free or do you feel like a hostage? As you assess this question, here are some hints:
Hostage:
- Your happiness and fulfillment are tied to (fill in the blank), your compensation, performance appraisal, raise, promotions, kudos from your boss. If you feel like you're constantly chasing the cookie, then you're trapped on a hamster wheel you feel you can't stop.
- You constantly think about making a change but never do.
- You feel like the risks of change (quitting your job, changing your perspective, seeing a therapist or coach) are more terrifying than putting up with the way things are.
- You wrestle with the same stress, decision point, or situation on repeat.
Free:
- You enjoy what you do (most days) and feel like you make a difference, to your coworkers, company, those you serve.
- You know that no matter the circumstances, you choose every day to be wherever you are.
- You feel like your work uses the best parts of you. You may be exhausted sometimes, and it's the "well used" kind of exhausted.
- Your work supports and balances well with the other parts of your life...family, free time, hobbies, health, rest.
- The balance of your life feels right to you. Even if that means you work 80 hours a week or you have all the free time in the world.
What I want for each of you is to feel free. Free doesn't mean nothing but free time or no work. It means that you feel like you have agency to craft your days through the lens of your priorities, style, and desires.
This summer, this newsletter is going to be a short and easy weekly challenge to help you feel more free. You don't have to sign up. You already are.
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