Exercise: How to Find Passion in Your Job
We all have the innate power to transform ourselves and our life situations for the better. Most of the time, it is as simple as a shift in our perspective. The following is an exercise to help us get out of that space consumed with negativity about our present situation. The exercise is tailored to finding passion in your job, but it really applies to every area of life.
1) Take a notebook with you at all times.
2) Systematically note down things that are pretty darn good about your job. Things you enjoy. Things you are grateful for. Co-workers you like.
3) Take one thing from this list that is important to you and significant to the company. Come up with a simple one month project where you will be increasing that component in your daily life. Example, if you work with a few pleasant customers, then the project could be: How to get more customers like that? Or, How to get our current customers to be like that? Or, How to get more work with those pleasant customers?
4) Do something every day to help you accomplish your projects goal. It’s best to do this in the morning as a priority item, but anytime during the day will give you a boost.
5) Evaluate your progress at the end of the month. Give yourself more time if you need.
Through actively practicing the exercise above, you will discover an enormous amount of things that are great about your job and your present situation. The act of noting down the things you like will take you to a different space. If you continue with points three to five consistently, by the end of the year you will have completed as many as six projects that are important to you and are significant to the company.
This exercise forces you change what you focus on, which changes your perspective and outlook. You will find that you are no longer in the job you dreaded, your entire professional life has changed, and your ideal job has grown around you. Recognize that you were the creator of that ideal job and the creator for this positive space you are currently living in.
Parting Words
Sometimes we spend so much of our free time thinking about how much we dislike our current situation that we forget that what we repeat in our heads becomes our reality. The more we repeat that story, the more we reinforce that story. As we reinforce the story, we identify with it and it changes your perspective. What we often do not realize is that these stories we tell ourselves are hurting us. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is to recognize that we are not our stories, and to becoming aware of when our mind chatter starts telling these stories.
We are never as stuck as we think. We are never as “incompetent” as we think. We are never as insecure as our minds have us believe. Practice being the observer to your mind, thoughts, and stories.
To find out more please read How to Make Profound and Lasting Change.
