A Remedy for Low Passion and Motivation
It’s easy to lose the spark for work you once loved, but five strategies can help re-ignite your fire. Plus, how workers laid off for the first time are feeling.
The mindset to re-kindle lost passion?
As the recent trend in?‘quiet quitting’?has revealed, many people are losing passion for careers they once loved. Perhaps you feel the same way – even after securing a fantastic position, the daily grind may have sapped you of enthusiasm, too.
For some, a loss of zeal may be a sign that you need to change careers – but such a?drastic move?is not always possible. Fortunately, recent studies show that some people naturally apply “cultivation strategies” to re-ignite their passion and motivation – and there are many ways we can all apply these techniques.?
Read more from David Robson on reviving joy in your workday.
The workers laid off for the first time?
Shamari Coleman never considered herself a person who’d get laid off.
But in December 2022, five months after taking a product-marketing position, the 28-year-old found herself without a job. She woke up to an email from the CEO, announcing they’d decided to lay off 5% of their workforce. “A few hours later, I was invited to a meeting with someone from HR and a department manager, and that was that.”?
Like Coleman, many people affected by the?layoffs that have swept the globe in the past 12 months?have never faced redundancy before. Lots of these workers have been ambitious high achievers at top firms, who are now confronted by the brutal reality that hard work and talent isn’t always enough. Beyond scrambling to re-think career plans, some workers have found their confidence dented in an unexpected way.
Yet it’s not all bad news.
Read more from Megan Tatum on workers experiencing first-time job cuts.?
Thanks for reading this week’s edition of Worklife 101. There’s more on BBC Worklife?and?BBC Business.
–Meredith Turits, Editor, BBC Worklife
Civil Engineer at Hill International, Inc.
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Lowes at Lowe's Companies, Inc.
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