Monday. Why?

It's Sunday evening (last night). Quite late actually, sat with a beer, watching the great film that is Beverly Hills Cop. It's such a fun and quotable film, and takes me back to a less complicated time when I was a kid.

When we start adulting, we're often all full of vim and vigour, some naivety, and a bit green about what we're even doing there. I know I was. But as our careers grow and develop, we find the things we're good at (or not), the things we enjoy and the things we are valued for. However, quite often we find ourselves in careers that only tick some of our boxes and at other times, very few.

That can lead to a major case of the Sunday Blues. That dawning realisation that you've got to go to work tomorrow. See or speak to the same people, do the same work, in the same place, or just work on things that give you very little joy. I realised last night that, much like early years trauma in a very young child, this can stick in your muscle memory. I got up half way through the film to grab a drink, and suddenly thought "oh crap, I've got to go to work tomorrow."

It comes upon you from nowhere, and then sits in your front of mind until you get happily distracted by something else. Only on this occasion I was wrong. It was my brain muscle playing tricks on me. You see, once I'd realised that I was now working for myself, and for a swathe of clients that truly value the work I do for them, and that it's ticking my boxes of relatively fast turn projects, with true variety, engaging with lots of different people, providing a service that inspires confidence in the client and helps them make their own next steps towards something more fulfilling..... I could breathe a sigh of relief.

Tomorrow I wasn't going to work. I was going to get paid to do things I enjoy. What a great life-decision that was. Take a look at Simon Sinek's TED talk on Starting with WHY. I am pretty sure this sowed the seeds for me when I first watched it a few years ago, and it might do for you too.

For extra reading take a look at this article that I found whilst looking for a header picture! I drew my own instead. https://tinyurl.com/Sunday-blues, and here's a link to the Simon Sinek TED talk https://tinyurl.com/Simon-Sinek.

Phil has spent 20+ years working in recruitment, building and leading teams, campaigns and strategies to hire more engaged workforces. He now provides interview guidance through 1-1 coaching and writes CVs giving his international clients the confidence to change their careers, and lives, for the better.