October 23, 2024 – JOLT – Are you moving at the speed of pain?
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If Pain Pushes Until Vision Pulls, Is It Time to Vision Up?
I recently heard someone say “I move at the speed of pain.”
It’s a sad but true comment on how, as humans, we tend to only move forward when we can absolutely no longer remain where we are:
- Our spouse or partner says, after many signs, that the gig is up and it’s over.
- The doctor’s diagnosis is that, if we continue doing what we’re doing (or not doing what we’re not doing), our health and life ahead is questionable.
- We go into work one morning and are shuffled unexpectedly into a room with our senior executive manager and the company’s chief people officer to be let go.
Over the years when I would participate in such massive corporate layoffs — as the helpful career guide waiting in a separate room to meet them after that layoff — I’d be amazed at how much folks had been paralyzed in pain.
Upon offering tissues to those noticeable caught off guard and upset at the news, I’d ask “So, did you ever consider that there may be a future for you outside of [X company]?”
Many would reply, while wiping away tears or blowing their nose, “Oh sure. I’ve been wanting to get out of here for years!”
Yet, here they sat, completely at the effect of their career movement rather than in charge of and causing it. A victim to the capricious and impersonal nature of corporate entities looking out for their own welfare.
Why aren’t professionals constantly looking out for their own welfare?
Because they don’t treat themselves like a business. They have an employee mindset vs a business owner mindset.
If you weren’t aware, let me break it to you gently, before you may one day learn it the hard way:
You OWN your own business. You always have. You simply lease out your employable assets.
And one thing any business owner must always do is constantly be on the lookout for the highest ROI while directing their resources in those directions.
What is a higher ROI? Of course, more compensation or benefits is often the case, but there are many other factors, depending on the person:
- Better work culture or management vision
- Work hours, location, and hybrid/virtual options
- A role more aligned with one’s passions
- Opportunities to expand in influence and/or responsibilities
- Opportunities to move back into former responsibilities one now misses
So, your AI (Aspiration Intelligence) enhanced challenge between now and New Years Eve, should you choose to accept it, is to take all of the factors mentioned above and create a VISION around them now!
Spend 15min per day simply sitting in quiet rumination of those ideas and, when your attention is more focused on your VISION vs your accepted and seemingly bearable pain, you’ll find yourself taking actions you would have never imagined.
One might be to talk with a career coach.
Think differently, play better.
Radically,
Darrell
CareerGuy and Back Forty Freedom Flier
P.S. Want to explore how pain can be pointed toward a passionate and purposeful career? Attend the upcoming CareerGuy Passion & Purpose Breakout!
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