InPower Women Essentials: 2024 Worklife Mini-Reset Part I

Welcome to 2024! Let’s start off the new year with focus and excitement. See below for how we can do that together! ~ Dana Theus

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2024 WORKLIFE MINI-RESET

At the beginning of each year, I ask myself what will give me the most meaning in the months ahead.

I’ve written before about how ‘happiness’ is no longer the brass ring I’m reaching for and how ‘meaning’ has become my go-to focus.

But what is ‘meaning’, really?

Finding meaning every day

In the search beyond happiness I’ve come to find that meaning isn’t necessarily something I think about, it’s something I feel. It feels like a light coming on inside me.

The strangest things can have meaning. Little pieces of junk I can’t move off my desk because they bring back memories that matter. A smile I didn’t intend to cause on someone else’s face. Something I gave on purpose. Things I worked hard for and things I didn’t.

The best part is that when I look for what has meaning, I find it all around me because it results from all the little daily choices I make to focus on things that light me up inside.

Photo by Brett Jordan

Big choices have meaning, too

All the little choices do add up, but when I’m trying to decide the big things–what to commit to, what to stop doing, who to spend more time with, how to arrange my stuff, my time, and my energy–finding what lights me up takes a different process.

The big things–like a new year’s focus–require something that feels more like hitting the ‘reset’ button. Taking three steps back to get perspective and putting aside all the existing commitments so I can decide what’s most meaningful going forward.

This does require thought, but it’s still that feeling of the light coming on inside me that lets me know I’ve found true meaning.

Getting ‘meaning’ perspective is hard

Sometimes that little light goes on inside me for a big decision and I notice it, but if I don’t take time to process it, it can go out all too easily.

That’s why the ‘reset’ process is so important. To reset my life and work around true meaning requires:

• Getting clear of the weeds and hanging out in the treetops long enough to look around for what could light me up
• Sifting through what’s possible to notice where the light shines brightest
• Letting myself dream and enjoy the idea of allowing that light in regularly
• Being realistic about what keeping that flame lit will ‘cost’ me
• Deciding how I can commit to it given the things I can’t change?
• Committing to it and giving it a voice - sharing it with the world

This year I am in the process of resetting my life and work around a big project. (More news on that in the months to come.)

One of my favorite things to do with my clients is offer them the opportunity and space to go through this process, so it doesn’t feel so hard. When we do it right, it’s truly joyful.

We’ll be doing this on January 17th in our Worklife Mini-Reset Mastermind session. I hope you can join us.

COACHING QUESTIONS

Go deeper into this topic by setting your phone timer and spending at least ten minutes thinking/journaling on these questions:?

• When was the last time you were “lit up” at work? What was going on?
• When you think about 2024 and the things you can’t change, what already lights you up?
• What more can you add to light you up if you did make some changes?
• What would you have to give up–let go of–to let the light in and keep it there?

Want to talk about it? Bring your thoughts on the above to our next InPower Women’s Mastermind meeting where we’ll discuss this and more.

NEXT MEETING: INPOWER WOMEN MASTERMIND JANUARY 17th @ 12pm EASTERN - 2024 Worklife Mini Reset. Learn More & Register

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I hope you have a wonderful New Year!

Dana Theus

Executive Coach

InPower Coaching

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