We all have times when we feel unhappy with our work.

Whether it's about feeling bored or discontent with our career path or unhappy with the boss or culture, the truth is, our career (and life) is made up of peaks and valleys. 

The key is finding your way through it in a way that serves you.

But most of us try to solve our unhappiness problem by looking outside of us. By focusing on changing the situation. 

I know I certainly did that for most of my career. 

I truly believed that there was this magical right place out there and if I could just find the perfect combination of industry, geographical location, company size, etc., I would find the key to career bliss.

But the truth is, it's never the things outside us that are making us unhappy. 

It's always what we're thinking about those things outside us that's the source of the issue.

What we're choosing to focus on.

The filter we're using to determine how we feel about the content of our job or our day.

And that's 100% within our ability to control.

In this episode, I give you three things you can do - starting today - to shift out of unhappiness, boredom or whatever negative emotion you're feeling. And how to intentionally choose a perspective or way of thinking about your job that can generate feelings of satisfaction or fulfillment. Or at least generate a sense of neutrality.

From this more positive emotional place, you'll be better able to make the important decisions we all have to make from time to time and that is, what to do next.

You want to be making important decisions like that from an emotional place that serves you. Because running away from problems will rarely get us to the place of career fulfillment that we're longing for. We want to make those big important changes from a place of feeling empowered and good and from a place of possibility and clarity.

For more, give the episode a listen.  

    

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