I go it alone on today's episode to talk about what it's like to experience unhappiness at work and how to change that. I start off by delving into the importance of professional exploration, and how you can't truly know if you're in the right place without considering all your options. While there are many reasons why we may be dissatisfied with our careers, burnout seems to be one of the most prominent. The teaching industry, for example, is familiar with burnout as they're infamously overworked and underpaid.

Considering how common it is for people to be unhappy with their jobs, I go on to discuss boundaries, positive habits, and healthy behaviors. By investigating what those mean to you, you learn more about your values and self worth, and you learn where to draw your lines which is healthy for you, not only professionally, but socially and personally, as well. Likewise, I want to abandon the notion that changing your career is suicide or starting over; there are other options, and I'm here to help you find them. In fact, I'm launching a new one-on-one coaching option to my site to help those in search of professional contentment in addition to a 6-month group program.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Why you could be unhappy at work
• The importance of professional exploration
• Why burnout is so prominent
• Developing good habits and behaviors
• Allow yourself to ask questions
• One-on-one coaching and 6-month group program

Quotes:

"Exploring is really important because it could turn out that it's just a simple tweak you have to make, right? It could be that you just aren't getting enough sleep, and that's the reason that you're miserable, right? Or it could be something bigger, but we don't know that until we do that work."

"Having a plan is really important, and that's the part that I think is not happening in a lot of cases. And I understand why people are just fed up and tired and just done, but if possible, doing the work, you know, taking that time is really important."

"When we talk about career change or adjustments, we're quick to think, 'Oh, that means I have to quit, burn it all down, and start over.' No! If you all know me, I think like an athlete, because I am one, and I have to have a plan."

"If we are trying to get to the top of the ladder, and we're at the bottom, if all of the steps are missing, and there's only the bottom one and the top, how do we get there? It's nearly impossible unless you're just a really good jumper. So we need to create those steps to get to where we want to go, and that takes time."

"Every time I've been in a miserable situation in my career, it inevitably seeped into my life–other parts of it, right. Whether it impacted my physical health, my mental health, my relationships, right, how I was speaking to people that I loved - all of those things are impacted."

"The biggest takeaway is for you to just start allowing yourself to get curious, to ask yourself those questions."

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