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Jan 27
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3 of 8 ways to get into the zone and find the fun in your work

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The girl in the train

Next step towards regaining your joie de vivre and find the fun in your work is this:  Find something or someone to inspire you.

Read on to find all 8 tips and for the ‘how to’ and ‘why to’ for tip number 3. Find something or someone to inspire you.  We will give you more information on each tip over the coming weeks and as you incorporate these tips into your life, you will be well on your way to regaining your joie de vivre and finding the fun in your work.

Daily checklist:

  • Be at peace and in silence for 15 minutes
  • Clarify your purpose
  • Find something or someone to inspire you (for information on ‘how to’ and ‘why to’, read on)
  • Do something today better than you did yesterday
  • Any time you feel tense, breathe deeply and be still – it will pass
  • Take responsibility for your wellbeing
  • Avoid blaming others
  • Write down one thing you’ve learnt about yourself today

Find Something or Someone to Inspire You

Have you noticed on your way to work, someone takes the last seat on the train, or they cut in front of you when you are driving.  Perhaps you find yourself dealing with Jobs Worth who seems to enjoy the game of blocking everything you are trying to achieve.

We are very good at spotting the things that wind us up.  For some it has become a bit of a sport – something to keep them occupied on the journey in.  A way of letting off steam.  Yet, as addicted as we are to being negative about others, it doesn’t actually do us many favours, apart from a brief injection of energy and excitement.

If you really want to get into the zone and find the fun in your work, take up a different sport.  Look instead for inspiration.  On your train journey, see if you can spot something or someone who inspires you.  Anyone or anything at all.  It could be completely unrelated to your life and situation.  But make it your quest to find inspiration.  If the last seat is taken, you will barely notice, so focused are you on looking for what might inspire you.  If someone drives in front of you, then pull back a little and let them through, because you have just seen an apple tree that you haven’t noticed before, growing bravely and rather incongruently by the side of the road and you are inspired.

Find something or someone to inspire you daily and before long, it will become such a source of fun and excitement, that you’ll be hooked.

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Jan 27
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2 of 8 ways to get in the zone and find the fun in your work

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Happy young business woman enjoying success at work

So far so good… You are finding 15 minutes a day to be at peace and in silence.  You are now ready to incorporate the next step towards regaining your joie de vivre and find the fun in your work!

Read on to find all 8 tips and for the ‘how to’ and ‘why to’ for tip number 2.  We will give you more information on each tip over the coming weeks and if you follow the advice, you will be well on your way to regaining your joie de vivre and finding the fun in your work.

Life just got more interesting – Here we go!

Daily checklist:

  • Be at peace and in silence for 15 minutes
  • Clarify your purpose (for information on ‘how to’ and ‘why to’, read on)
  • Find something or someone to inspire you
  • Do something today better than you did yesterday
  • Any time you feel tense, breathe deeply and be still – it will pass
  • Take responsibility for your wellbeing
  • Avoid blaming others
  • Write down one thing you’ve learnt about yourself today

Clarify Your Purpose 

This is worth taking a little time to think about at first.  So it might be a good idea to take yourself off to a quiet corner with a cup of tea and a notebook.  It might take you 30 minutes.  Once you have clarified your purpose though, it will be easy to create a daily reminder.

Why do you come to work?  What are you there for?  Have a think and write down what comes to mind.  Then, read it back and ask yourself is this my purpose, or is it what I do?  For example:

“Credit Control” – Is this my purpose, or what I do?

Credit Control is more of a job title than a purpose.  It describes the function, or what one does, but it is not the purpose.  Let’s take this example as a starting point, and find out how to find this person’s purpose (their why).

Q: Why?

A: So that customers pay on time

Q: If they paid on time, what would that mean to you?

A: We’d have a healthy cash flow

Q: If you had a healthy cash flow, what would that mean to you?

A: I would be doing a good job and would have a good review with my manager

Q:If you were doing a good job and this was reflected in your performance review, what would that mean to you?

A: I wouldn’t resent working as hard as I do

Q:  If you didn’t resent working as hard as you do, what would that mean to you?

A: I would enjoy coming to work more.

Q: If you enjoyed coming to work more, what would that mean to you?

A: I would have more energy.

Q: If you had more energy, what would that mean to you?

A: I would enjoy speaking with my customers!

Q: If you enjoyed speaking with your customers, what would that mean to you?

A: I would want to help them.

Q: If you wanted to help them, what would that mean to you?

A: I’d feel really happy that I’d made a difference to their day!

So, in this example the Credit Controller’s true purpose for coming to work, might be better described as:

I help my customers pay on time, because it makes them feel good and that makes me feel happy!

There’s a big difference, isn’t there, between coming to work to control credit, and helping my customers pay on time, because it makes them feel good and me feel happy?   Can you imagine the different conversations that you would have with your customer with that as your purpose and how much more enjoyable it would be to do your job?

Now, using the example to guide you, take yourself through these steps to help you find your purpose at work and feel the difference.

We all have lapses at times and forget our purpose.  We get bogged down into the daily grind, we become task focused.  That is why a daily reminder to focus on our purpose is so important.  It lifts us up and we can ride on its coat tails for the day.

Lucy Windsor is the Author of People Aren’t Widgets, Communication Specialist and Executive Coach.  Call us on 01932 888 885  or email lucy@theperformance.biz to discuss how we can help you and your organisation.

 

 

Jan 24
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8 Ways to get in the zone and find the fun in your work

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zipper for the sky

Widget [noun & verb]

  • A small mechanical device with limited functionality whose name is unknown or can’t be recalled – unnecessarily applying too much attention to detail.

Sound familiar?

Have you ever felt like a widget at work?

Does it spill into your personal life too?

That feeling of working hard, doing your best, but somehow your best is just not good enough and stress fractures are beginning to show; just like a mechanical widget that has been going at it so long that wear and tear is setting in.

Everyone wants something more from you, something different, so you bounce from professional at work; to personal relationships; to family responsibilities; to maintaining hobbies and it seems you just can’t please everyone all of the time.

This chronic struggle slowly drains your joie de vivre.

So, we’re here to give that back. Help you to get in the zone and find the fun in your work, in your life!

We started by creating a checklist of 8 things you can do daily that will create changes, we call these quick wins.They take no time, just the determination to win back your joie de vivre and, like cleaning your teeth, they need to be done daily to build a new momentum.

In a moment, you will see the daily checklist.This is followed by some ‘how to’s’.We want you to really have clarity so you can make these small changes and enjoy the results.We have also included a chart for you to print out and plot your progress over the next month.

So, if you are ready to regain your joie de vivre and find the fun in your work, here is a good place to start.

Daily checklist:

  • Be at peace and in silence for 10 minutes
  • Clarify your purpose
  • Find something or someone to inspire you
  • Do something today better than you did yesterday
  • Any time you feel tense, breathe deeply and be still – it will pass
  • Take responsibility for your wellbeing
  • Avoid blaming others
  • Write down one thing you’ve learnt about yourself today

So now you have your checklist of 8 things to do daily. Over the next 8 days, we’ll post a short blog explaining how to’s for each of the eight and why they matter, so stay tuned for more…

Lucy Windsor is the Author of People Aren’t Widgets, Communication Specialist and Executive Coach. Call us on 01932 888 885 to discuss how we can help you and your organisation.

 

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