How to Love Your Job Anyway…Your GPS System ©
By Joyce Anderson
www.conversationswithyourself.com
…is your job so routine that you feel you could be replaced at any moment… problems with coworkers or your manager…low morale due to organizational change or down sizing…do you feel no one appreciates your talents…do you count the minutes until the weekend arrives? What happened? Somewhere we’ve stepped out of integrity and listening to our intuition. We worry about everything around us instead of what goes on inside us and how we do our work.
Integrity – adherence to a code of values, incorruptibility, soundness, and completeness. Believe it or not, this is our natural state, it is our higher self. The evidence is we feel good when we’re in it, and feel bad when we’re not. Integrity or lack of shows up in our health and circumstances around us.
Phase I: Let’s step back to your interview for your current position. You and your new employer agreed on a job description and remuneration for a job well done. You wanted to do your best and hoped for growth beyond this position, your personal contract. No matter how significant the position was, deep down there was an excitement and feeling of “you’ll be glad you hired me, I am unique and will be an asset to the work.” This represented a fresh start and a new chance. You were energized and excited. What was your code of values at that time?
Phase II: Your job begins. Your main concern was to know your job, coworkers and navigate the work to your manager’s expectations. You put your best foot forward. Remember the first time your felt competent? Job well done! How did you feel during this stage, still energized? Were you code of values still in tact?
Phase III: Whoops, the honeymoon is over. Now we’ve taken our focus off of the learning and are possibly focusing on the drama around us, as we do our work. It’s natural for the newness to wear off, but are you still doing your daily best for what you were hired for…for your sake and future opportunities.
Below is a list of some behaviors you might relate to. How much do you get paid for these, and where do they fit in Phase I and II?
- Consistently 4 to 6 minutes late everyday (personally used this one a lot)
- Every moment scheduled from waking till sleeping, constantly working overtime. This is an indicator of not valuing your whole life, out of balance.
- Too many personal phone calls, complaining (the “if only” syndrome), and gossiping
- Procrastination, excuses, others have to do your work
- Over involved in others work
- Minimally do your job, won’t help others
- Padded sales calls to leave early on Friday (guilty again)
- Isolated manager from workers creative ideas and thoughts
- Afraid to voice your creative idea
- Absenteeism
These behaviors are barriers that you have chosen which hide your talents and creativity. They come from past hurts…get over them. When we don’t feel unique, we feel bored and disposable. What is the key to individuality? Intuition. Think of intuition as your global position system, GPS. It shows you how to navigate your vehicle (talents and ideas) and which road to take to get to your desired destination. You are in charge of your GPS, no one else.
How do we use our GPS system? Pay attention. Just like in your car, a voice speaks to you and a map appears, with directions on where to turn, when you missed a turn, and how to get back on track. It never gives up! Your intuition acts the same way:
- 1. You receive a hunch, crazy idea or dream that excites you (this is a clue that your talents will be used).
- 2. Help appears, synchronicities: coincidences show up, a strong feeling to do or not to do something, an inner voice (heard or silent) speaks to you, an urge to call someone that pops in your mind, an article or movie hits the nail on the head…synchronicities begin!
- 3. Take action, don’t ignore them. At first intuition might not make sense, but it always works. It bridges our creative side with the ‘can-do’ side. Use courage!
Action Plan
This day you act with integrity, your new bumper sticker: “Values on Board”. Identify and eliminate one of the behaviors you were not hired for. This is how you transform and let go of the past. Once you eliminate one, the rest are easier to let go of.
Grab the feelings from Phase I and Phase II as fuel for you GPS system. No one can take them from you unless you allow your thoughts to focus elsewhere.
Turn on your GPS system and follow it. Where you are in your job right now is one of your roads. Navigate the best you can. We only have the present to work on. What you do now leads to what is ahead. Integrity and intuition are the tools you have to handle whatever comes your way. It will lead you to delivering your talents to a world that needs them, the best destination ever!
You were hired for your unique qualities, not as a cookie cutter, let you special qualities out! Only you have that power.
Joyce Anderson started her company, Conversations with yourSelf, in 2004 with the goal to help people unleash their intuition to hear their dreams and use their talents. This leads to integrity and job satisfaction. The principles and techniques applied by Joyce are the result of on-going study and training over the past ten years. She is available as an moving speaker and group facilitator. Website: www.intuitionbyjoyce.com, Email: joyce@intuitionbyjoyce.com Phone: 336 282-2072
