Last night I attended a workshop put on by Innerspace called Empower Yourself at Work. I've struggled with my happiness at work and more recently have been struggling with my workload the past month or two. I definitely felt like I could use a pick me up, something to change my mindset around work and maybe a few tips to use to maybe cope a little better.
I was a bit disappointed as the workshop was very similar to the Believe in Yourself lecture I previously attended by Innerspace. But it did remind me about a couple things I should be doing at work to calm my mind and I hope that I can use these things daily to be a bit happier.
The thing that I found especially useful was the Power of Packing Up. It's probably kind of obvious but it means that you don't bring extra thoughts and issues with you throughout the day.. instead you should travel light. This is a tool that also seems to be very useful in going through the journey of life. You choose to deal with your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and issues and then pack up and move on lighter and freer. In the workplace this is about your daily work tasks. Once you finish sending an email or in my case having a keywork session... you take a couple minutes and pack it all up, take a minute to reflect then move on. I find that I very much too often start thinking about what I have to do next while I'm still finishing the task at hand and go on like that throughout the day. Lately I find more and more that I am skipping back and forth between different tasks without completing any right away so my mind is constantly flitting around what I am working on and I'm not being as effective as I used to be.
So this is the new challenge at work. I want to try to be happy in the role that I'm in, the role that I wanted for too long./ I'm afraid that I am living with the idea that the grass is always greener and am quickly forgetting the reasons I do the work in the first place and what I enjoy about it. I need to be calmer within myself in order to move forward and not stay in the rut I've been for too long. I'll let you know how it goes!
