You've got no-one to blame but yourself
Leah Steele
Executive & ADHD Coach | Burnout Prevention & Career Sustainability | Supporting Professionals to Create Rewarding Careers | Reflective Practice | Trainee Therapeutic Counsellor
Dear lawyers, accountants, teachers, medical professionals and everyone else working a job that they have longed to do for years.
Did you know that your job isn't supposed to kill you?
Did you know that it is entirely, completely possible to be fantastic at your job and not have to sacrifice your physical or emotional health, financial security or ability to look yourself in the eye and like what you see?
Did you also know that it's not your boss's fault, your co-worker's fault or your client's fault that you're exhausted and angry and disappointed and ill and ready to quit?
You have no-one to blame but yourself.
No-one held a gun to your head.
No-one threatened to hurt your friends or family if you didn't comply.
I'm giving this to you straight because you're smart, you're emotionally intelligent and deep down you know it already.
You've done this to yourself.
You've whinged about the economy, about the workload, about how the people in the ivory tower just don't get it.
And you've thought about quitting.
Of pulling the covers over your head and switching your phone off for the day.
But ultimately you get up, drag your ass out of bed and around the office all day and do the damn job.
Do you remember when you loved your job?
When what you did inspired you, motivated you, was a reason to jump out of bed in the morning?
That was the beginning of the problem.
You've been like a shitty estate agent, viewing life through a fish-eye lens, a myopic view of this one thing in front of you and everything else gets pushed to the side and blurred around the edge.
Work was the focus.
Career progression was the focus.
Earning more money was the focus.
Getting the respect you think you deserve was the focus.
Ascending the ladder at a dizzying speed was the focus.
And everything else.
Well, it happened.
Sometimes it got you excited, too.
Your relationships.
Your wedding.
Your kids.
Your family.
But ultimately work work work was the focus.
Took up the time and the energy and the drama.
And now that you've given everything you have for far too long.
Now that you need a break.
Now that you can't do it any more.
You want to focus on anything but - and there's not a whole lot left.
The passion projects you had outside your career are buried in a cupboard under layers of dust.
You've run from one thing to the next constantly for years now and wonder why you're so damn tired.
And I know you're reading this right now thinking 'fuck off Leah, you don't know me and my life'.
Except, this is the best bit.
It's so damn simple to change it.
And the brilliant, beautiful thing?
Is it's all your fault.
And mean you've got all the responsibility, ability, option, to change it.
But you can't expect that person staring throuh a fish eye lens to have perspective, can you?
That's where I come in.
That's where I give you clarity and redefine your purpose and what makes you whole.
It's where I hold a mirror up to the real you, the proportioned you, the one who hasn't seen with clarity and good humour for years.
You got yourself here.
You've got no-one to blame but yourself.
And that's brilliant because it means, with a little bit of practice, you'll never have to come back here again.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
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After all, knackered as you are, isn't that what you want?
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