Career and Life Changes That Shouldn't Be Ignored.
We've all been there. Decision time. How do we make educated decisions (not guesses) about important career and life changes? Nothing brings this up more than the changing of the seasons, the end of the year, heck for that matter the start of the new year and even a new moon.
When it comes to your career don't quit and run out just yet! I talked to Makenzie Chilton, (she's done her BA in Psychology, Masters in Forensic Psychology and Life Coach Coaches Training Institute Diploma an ICF Accredited Program) about exactly this. This is her jam, and lucky for us she's helping people to love their Mondays!
In this "Gratitude and Fortitude Interview" video Makenzie walks us through life choices, decisions, and the power we have in making them.
Makenzie has got to be the coolest counsellor I’ve met, she so graciously had this very real conversation with me about how we should stop complaining about stuff and do something about it.
Do you Love Your Mondays?
I was driving my two hour way into the office again. Thinking about the two hour return I'd be making later. On my way to meet my babies after their long day at daycare. The commute to my office was exaggerated by the multi-year construction project on our main throughway into the city. Feeling out of alignment is an understatement.
How did I end up living out of the city? How did I end up not loving my job? Was it me or was it the situation?
Thankfully at the time I had an accommodating boss. An employer that respected my life outside of work, the balance I was carefully practicing being a Mom of two and a successful member of her Business Development team. I explained what I was up against, this feeling and challenge of the daily grind. Luckily, I started working from home three days a week. This clearly would be the alignment adjustment I needed. Right? Not quite.
It was a bandaid. I was unclear why I was still not feeling lit up. To be fair young motherhood sends you all sorts of mixed messages. I continued on, I couldn't see past the construction, commute, the challenge of balance. Feeling stagnant and stuck in wondering what I should do, I sought another change to my career. I would work closer to home.
You know when you finally make a decision, it's like a huge weight lifted. This surely was the decision I'd be aligned with.
Truth told. It was ok, but it wasn't it. I continued on like this for quite a while. Most likely I stayed with it too long. You see, when we're out of alignment there are no bandaids, there are very important and big decisions that must be made.
Exit stage left! I did. Being so far out of alignment with what I felt I needed (and even then at that time I didn't know what it was), my only choice was departure. This decision felt golden. It was.
via MakenzieChilton.com
"You deserve to be happy at work and if your complaining more than you’re happy it’s time to make a change." - Makenzie Chilton
Check this video above, join the convo this article was originally published at LaurieAshley.com
Find Makenzie Chilton at MakenzieChilton.com and on Insta (because she loves Insta) @LoveYourMondays