“Be the change you want to see in the world” is such a powerful and sensical quote. I’m sure you’d love to be just that! Leading the way in your workplace by being respected, kind, open-minded, and agile would certainly go a long way to being happy at work. It’s just often difficult to know how to do it. If you want to know how to increase your happiness and abilities at work through self-awareness, read on!
Increase your happiness and ability at work through self-awareness
Most of us spend 2/3rds of our days at work. Aiming for happiness and job satisfaction at your workplace definitely has its merits. By the time you’ve reached adulthood you’ll have complex belief systems in place that dictate how you should live your life. The choice of career and workplace is informed by many different layers of beliefs that you’ll have picked up during childhood, teen, and young adult years from parents, school, college, and social environment. By the time you’re choosing a career and then a job, you expect your choice to satisfy a host of different needs – social status, money for shelter, food, debt payments, and self-value. Few of us have been lucky enough to have the strong self-confidence to choose the career that makes us deliriously happy and have the emotional and intellectual maturity to excel at it as well.
Luckily, we don’t stop growing. Our society continues to evolve. In the last few decades, it’s become commonplace to change jobs and even careers. People spend time and money on personal growth. That way, the choices you made when young stop being mistakes. They are stepping stones on your way to becoming fully YOU. This article explores one way of many that allow challenges to become gifts for growth and happiness.
Be the change you wish to see – don’t expect others to be it for you
There are two main approaches to achieving happiness at work – change the work environment where you are currently at, or move and change jobs. Changing jobs is a more drastic measure and such is seen as a last resort. It also seems to guarantee more chances of success, as long as the next job is “the right one”. The same goes for moving from being employed into being self-employment. The pitfall with this solution is a tendency to leave unfinished business behind. This earth is “Life School”. The lessons we need to learn will appear in front of us until we have mastered them. There are absolutely times for changing jobs and careers. And it’s prudent to move forward once you have mastered the lessons that face you first.
Changing the work environment you are in requires a little more finesse and ability. There are myriad programs and approaches to help you get what you want, be heard and respected, increase your knowledge, soft skills, and confidence. The Leaders Work approach teaches you to increase your ability to take full responsibility for what is happening at your workplace through increasing your self-awareness.
Ability to deal with challenges increases job satisfaction
Self-awareness is THE key to personal power and happiness. The more aware you are of what you are feeling, thinking, and expressing at any giving moment, the better you understand how you influence the world around you. The better you know yourself the greater your ability to choose who you want to be. Every time you can face a challenge of any kind with deliberate calm, an open mind, and appreciation for everyone else’s effort in it, you’ll gain respect, confidence, influence, and satisfaction with yourself. What’s more, an open mind allows you to see solutions that before had not been apparent.
Again, there are many ways to increase your self-awareness, and all have merit. The Work of Byron Katie teaches self-awareness by inviting you to ask questions of yourself – inquire into your thoughts and beliefs during the situation that challenges you.
What is the stressful situation for you? Is it that your colleagues don’t respect or help you enough? Your boss or your patients don’t listen? Someone, or you, keeps losing their temper? The workload is too high? You are scared of making mistakes and being sued? The hours are too long? Is the money not good enough? Whatever it is, these obstacles to being happy and fulfilled in your workday are YOUR PATH to healing and to living your fullest potential. If you don’t transform them now into self-knowledge and appreciation, they’ll follow you around until you do.
Try changing your perspective on the stressful situations at work or in your life!
Sign up for “Happiness at Work: Be the change you want to see”. This 4-day challenge is for medical professionals and everyone who wants to transform their stressful beliefs into happiness and understanding. You’ll learn to use Inquiry-based stress relief or the Work of Byron Katie. It’s my main tool to help medical professionals operate with relaxed efficiency and joyful excellence.
Check out this free resource “5 Steps to having a career in medicine that is deeply satisfying“.
