Are You Headed In The Right Direction In Your Career?

-How often do you check in with yourself about how you feel at work? 

-Are there any areas you think need improvement?

-Adding or editing something might add to your productivity?

Career coaches across recommend this career detox practice to help people at all levels to flourish and avoid the common experience of burnout. It involves only three steps and you too can use this practice to figure out what is holding you back and how you can get ahead in your work life.

Ask yourself -  How am I doing?

We are all conditioned to ask others how they are doing and rarely do we ask ourself this question. 

Career satisfaction starts with self-leadership and that comes with self-awareness. 

• Sit with yourself for 10 minutes and reflect on your thoughts, feelings, and energy levels at work. 
• How have you been feeling in the last quarter - restless, bored, stressed, or generally satisfied.
• Look back to remember your wins and losses and how they impacted your work.
• What did you give much importance to and what you didn’t.
• Were you excited about your work or did it feel like a stagnant task.

Reassess - Have my values evolved and how?

It is our values that drive us the most. Most of our passions and interests are tied to our values and we feel most energized when they are aligned.

Like we evolve, so do our values. Ask yourself

• What is the most important value for you at work?
• Has this been same or has it declined or increased over the months?
• How do your values align with success, failure, teamwork?
• Do your values show up in your way of work?
• How have your values added to your work?

Detox - What needs to be added or eliminated?

Once you sit with yourself and truly assess your current work situation, you get a clear picture of what is working and what isn’t for you. With your insights now it’s time to get to work.

• What can you subtract from your work life?
• What can you add to your work life?
• What can you keep the same?

You deserve to be fulfilled in your job, and this is one simple way to get there

We all live a busy life and taking out time to pause and reflect is not something we give enough importance to. 

But it is. 

How will we go to the next step if we don’t take out time to understand whether what we are doing is aligned with our career success or not?

Invest a few minutes each quarter to go through these steps.