Why are so many of us so awful at taking breaks? What it about our culture and conditioning as adults that prevents us from stepping away from our seemingly important tasks in order to briefly recharge?
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How did I get here??? A client asked in a recent conversation. As a career strategy and burnout coach, I hear this question ALOT.
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When I first left the corporate world, I was grateful to have my yoga “career” to fall back on. It was great to have to show up somewhere each week, deliver and to have a small but steady stream of income.
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Let’s set aside the unrealistic ideal that leaning in hysteria has set for women as leaders in society and instead focus on another side of the argument, leaning in (specifically, working longer and harder) quite simply isn’t how men or women do their best work.
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As a recovering perfectionist, its easy to get really down on myself about the lack of continued progress in this area. It’s even easier to mask what I’ve learned about the power of making space in your world, and live under the illusion that I really can DO IT ALL.
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What if I told you that you aren’t stressed out because of stress? That indeed there are other people who have the exact same amount of stress in their lives, if not more, who don’t feel stressed out at all.
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A recruiter recently told me when I asked her about her decision process in candidate sourcing. Roughly translated her response really meant that she goes hunting for a candidate’s story.
Which means she is looking – online – not in a pdf – for the real scoop.
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For a long time, I’ve pretty much just accepted the tension I regularly feel as a part of normal life. Because, yes, even with all of the yoga and meditation I do, I too get stressed out and have lingering physical tension. Tension is a state of disembodiment. And I quite simply cannot do my job if I am not embodied.
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I once had a colleague flat out ask me why I just didn’t quit. I had another announce in front of a large group that she was downright furious with me for staying in a job I hated.
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Conventional wisdom is changing. Rather than believing you need to say yes to everything – people are starting to use a previously forbidden word. “NO.” They are drawing the line in the sand, setting mindful boundaries. And even better – sticking to them.
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In a perfect world you’d have 100% control over your career. You’d have the power to do what you wanted, how you wanted and when you wanted to. But I’m guessing you don’t always feel 100% in control.
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