Is your job draining you?

1. Remain a victim

Option one is to be at the effect of the circumstance. This includes a feeling of loss of control, powerlessness, frustration, and depression. Remaining in a job that decreases your energy can drain you until nothing is left. The dissatisfaction often spreads to other areas of your life, and you lose vitality.

Questions to start the ball rolling:

• What do I have control over?
• What are my options?
• What is my part of responsibility?

2. Leave the job

One of the options is leaving the job. Sometimes the best choice is respectfully leave the job, knowing that the end of one phase creates space for new beginnings. There is no judgment necessary.

Raising personal awareness and taking responsibility for your role in the dynamic helps you create different future outcomes.

Questions to start the ball rolling:

• What do I want to leave behind?
• How do I want to change?
• What would the ideal job opportunity look like?

3. Accept the job

When you accept the job, you suspend your judgment, stress, and your burden.?

You stop resisting it. You accept it just as it is and that it is okay.?

It could mean that it’s just not worth the effort to change it. When we cannot change something, the wisest thing we can do is to accept it.

Questions to start the ball rolling:

• What do I resist?
• What do I need to accept to have peace?
• How does this job support my long-term vision?

4. Change the job

You can take proactive action to change your role or some aspects. These small changes can have a significant effect on your satisfaction levels.?

There are two types of job crafting that you can do:

(i) Task crafting- change the number, the type, or nature of the task you do;

(ii) Relational crafting- alter the number, type, and intercity of relationships, change the style of interactions in the way that they change the meaning of your work.

Questions to start the ball rolling:

• How can I change this task to gain more satisfaction/a sense of purpose/ meaning?
• What can I change to have more fulfilling relationships?
• What medium of communication suits me best?

5. Change the job by changing your perspective.

Finally, rather than changing the job with actions and new behaviours, you can shift how you look at your job.? It involves consciously choosing the meaning that you assign to your experiences.

You decide what to want to focus on and the filter through which you want to see your circumstances.??

Questions to start the ball rolling:

• What qualities of this job do you appreciate, and how can you stay connected to your appreciation of these qualities?
• What are the opportunities available to you on this job?
• How can you look at this job with a fresh pair of eyes?

I am curious,

Which option do you tend to go for when things get tough professionally??

Which option would you like to try?