Its very easy to become stuck in a rut, especially at work, what can you do about it?
Fortunately there are some easy quick win solutions to get you started on your climb out of the rut.
- Ask yourself if there’s something missing? – it could be that you’ve been in the job too long, unchallenged and bored. Write yourself a dream job checklist. What do you need from your job? Include earnings, hours, responsibility, commute. This way you can start to make small changes to move towards your dream role.
- Put some of the fun back – once we’ve hit that rock bottom boredom threshold it becomes quite tricky to change our thought processes. So just do something different. Why not organise a lunchtime or evening event such as a quiz or sports event, make some new friends and have a bit of fun too.
- Network – Networking is vital and not just to those in business. It is connecting with new people that could halp you with careers moves at a later stage or get you involved in projects.
- Do something new – start something in your own time, do a part time college course or even start a part time business. It could bring in a second income or even replace your first. Do consider carefully though what it is you want to do and consider those items on your dream job checklist. Or you could ask for more responsibility at work.
- Rewards – we all need to be rewarded for our efforts and this is often lacking at work. So why not motivate yourself, I have chocolate treats when I know I’ve finished a project, you know what works for you.
And remember:
“If you always do, what you always did,
you’ll always get, what you always got” – unknown
So don’t be afraid to change something.
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