One of the biggest reasons that people often hover around a job search, wondering if they really need to make a change, is missing a sense of contribution in their role.
Here’s what it has sounded like to a few of my clients:
“What is important for me to do in this world before I go, and what are the strengths that I want to contribute toward that important thing?”
“I feel quite sad that I’m not realizing the potential I have. I’m wasting precious time on this earth with wasted energy that I could be contributing.”
“Now my pressure centers around the question of what am I doing with my life? What do I want to spend my time doing? This constant questioning of life’s big questions and feeling inadequate has me feeling overwhelmed and frozen.”
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Contribution is something that’s incredibly important to many of us, but when I ask my clients more about their impact in their work, I often hear an insidious phrase sneak in - “well I’m not saving the world or anything…”
What a strange response that we’ve been taught to give. We’ve been led to believe that we’re either saving the world (in a very narrowly defined way) or we’re doing nothing to be proud of.
Who gets to say what type of work is “saving the world”?
What if we got to define what it looked like to contribute to the world in our own unique way?
What if we got to say whether work was our contribution to the world or whether we choose to contribute in other ways?
I challenged one particular client to look at what she actually wanted and what a meaningful contribution would look like. Her response was “earning money and producing something I feel good about”.
“Saving the world” is filled with pressure and ambiguity, “producing something I feel good about” got to be tied to values.
For another client, her response was “I don’t need to be saving the world but I want my work to have a fast and direct impact on the consumer.”
Before you launch into a full-on job search, what if you remove any disclaimer or assessment as to whether your work is “saving the world” and create your own definition of the contribution you want to make, in your work or your life.
Either you’ll relieve some of the pressure you currently feel about your existing job or you’ll know exactly what you’re looking for in the next move.
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