The pandemic showed us all that life is unpredictable. Everything can change in one instant. So, why accept being stuck in a rut at work? Keep reading to find out how you can turn things and achieve the life of purpose you are desperately seeking.
Welcome back to the JMS blog!
Dear Readers, thank you very much for your continued support! As a small consulting firm that helps teams discover new avenues to face crises of all sorts with efficiency, the JMS team is all too familiar with the level of stress and uncertainty you have felt in the past year. We are all wrestling with the draining and dreaded pandemic fatigue! Your concerns around whether it is possible to move forward safely even if COVID-19 variants are running rampant are valid. OK, enough fluffing around, let’s get into this right now!
Reassess your priorities.
Dear Readers, you manage to pay your bills on time. You probably like your coworkers. The workload in your current position is, for the most part, quite manageable. Yet, you are feeling stuck and unbothered somehow. It’s time to reassess your priorities! After the year we’ve had, why would you want to continue to feel stuck in a rut at work?
To turn things around, Dear Readers, you’ll need a dose of introspection. Ask yourself what you want your life to look like today, later this year, and in the next two years. Contrary to popular belief, not having long-term goals does not mean that you cannot have a purposeful life today. Plus, the pandemic showed us to remain as flexible is the best way to cultivate a meaningful life even in the most uncertain, financially chaotic times as during a global pandemic. All you need is a clear vision of what you want out of life, and you’ll make decisions that help your career fit into that vision rather than slave away at a job you end up detesting. What do you think, Dear Readers? Do you know a better way to live the life of your dreams? Let us know in the comments below!
Career management requires time management super skills.
Yes, Dear Readers, you’ve heard this before. But it bears repeating! If you do not have a handle on your time, you won’t achieve anything. You could stop reading this article this very moment, throw away your goals, and shout on your social media channels just how unfair life has been! Otherwise, give us a chance to explore how improving your time management will help you avoid rotting away as you stay stuck in a rut at work.
Start by tracking your time.
Time is such a funny thing, Dear Readers. Have you ever noticed that everything always takes a lot longer than you could ever imagine?!! The JMS team hears clients express how defeated they feel when it comes to time management. How can you focus on improving yourself to avoid staying stuck in a rut at work when there is never enough time to do everything?!! So yeah, Dear Readers, this blog gets it! You are not alone! Just grab a notebook, nothing special, and start tracking everything you do from the moment you wake up until you are ready to go to bed for one week. You’ll end up with an honest rather than an imagined picture of how you spend your time day in day out.
Put your to-do list on your schedule.
Now that you have identified pockets of “free” time, you can start planning your next career move to turn things around. For example, a JMS client turned her breakfast time to research her next job rather than watch the news. Indeed, she understood that she had to find out the cost of changing course professionally as a mother of two adorable little kids.
Thus, the JMS team showed her how to use the first meal of the day as a learning period. She now had the time to explore alternative career paths and connect with people to do brief informal interviews. In doing so, the JMS team helped her test-drive her aspirations before jumping ship. Do you know a better way to plan the exit strategy for your current position? Tell us all about it over email us at jms@branding24seven.com!
Find out how you can upgrade your weekly planning process to improve productivity.
Take small steps.
Dear Readers, the temptation is to want to do everything as quickly as possible. But as this blog already established, the concept of time is often more an illusion than anything else! So, you have to plan your next steps meticulously. The JMS team suggests you commit to accomplishing one task by the end of each day for the next three weeks. You can research which certification you need to be able to move forward today. Tomorrow, you can search for the availability of such classes. The day after tomorrow, you can register for the options that suit you best. And just like that, you have to turn things around! You are no longer stuck in a rut at work and are on your way to creating the career of your dreams! Don’t you agree? Let us know in the comments below!
Final thoughts.
There you have it! The JMS team thanks you, Dear Readers, for taking the time to read today’s publication. The branding24seven community is here to inspire and encourage as you, Dear Readers, are embarking on the exhilarating journey to design the life of your dreams. This blog wants you to have the confidence to chase your goals with reckless abandon!
The JMS team thanks you for your support as you continue to submit requests by email or via the contact form. Don’t stop, Dear Readers! As a small consulting firm, the JMS team feels lucky to have the ability to support clients across industries through any given crisis that rocks their daily operations. We want to do the same for you, Dearest Readers. We love creating articles that make you think, question everything you thought you knew, and change your life! Come back every week for actionable tips to level up your time management skills and optimize your financial goals.
Dear Readers, we want to hear from you!
What are you doing to turn things around at work? Did you like our solutions, or do you think that we missed the mark? What else can this blog cover that will help you optimize your financial goals in 2021, Dear Readers?
Let us know by email at jms@branding24seven.com or by mail at JMStrategy LLC
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Dear Readers here is more content from the JMS team to help you get your lives on track and reach all your dreams:
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