unhappy at work

Ep #198: The Secret to Career Happiness

Big, exciting changes in your career can bring a whole bunch of happiness into your life…temporarily. You’ve experienced this cycle before. Over time, we go from being incredibly happy about a new role, a new organization, a new team…only for the work to eventually feel like, well…work. Here’s the problem: Working for an organization is never going to be enough to create long-term, meaningful happiness for you. So what will? Teaching. But not necessarily in the way you’d expect. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how sharing what you're currently learning, the challenges you've overcome, and the leadership principles you stand for will help you create lasting happiness for yourself.

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#135 - Career coach Kelly Whalley explains how to identify what’s not right at work, create a better work-life balance and take responsibility for your career.

What you'll learn

• [1:33] How Find Your Wings helps people through transitional career periods.
• [2:20] What “brain-based science” is.
• [3:07] What motivated Kelly to start her own coaching business.
• [4:46] How coaches can help people who are beginning their careers.
• [5:56] How receptive businesses are to coaching junior staff members.
• [7:25] The seven key areas to developing a healthy and happy career.
• [9:49] How to figure out where your needs aren’t being met.
• [12:19] The extent to which your job should reflect your passions.
• [13:17] How to spend more time doing the tasks you enjoy.
• [15:33] The value of finding developmental opportunities in mundane tasks.
• [18:13] The importance of being proactive in your learning and development.
• [20:25] How to assess if your work fits in well with your life.
• [24:24] Steps you can take to figure out where improvements can be made and where there’s misalignment.
• [27:20] How to know what needs to change in your work life.
• [34:24] How to discover which careers fit with you.
• [38:03] Where to compromise when searching for your dream job.
• [40:13] The importance of perspective and being positive.
• [41:49] How to explore potential alternative careers.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Episode 129: How to sell your ideas to your boss - with Brigitta Hoeferle of Center of NLP
• The High Performance Podcast
• Squiggly Careers book and podcast

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/why-am-i-unhappy-at-work/

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Pulling back the curtain on what the hell actually happens in a life coaching session, with real-life client, "Liz".

We talk a lot about work, which is a massive source of frustration for so many people, and we also dig beneath the surface, to see if we can get to the root of the reason some of these things are so incredibly challenging. Including what to do when you're triggered by coworkers or your boss.

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Note: The point of views of guests on this podcast are not always the view of the podcaster. And the podcaster is only expressing her own opinions. This is the disclaimer portion where we remind listeners to do their own due diligence, and that Maia is not a doctor or therapist and that you are a responsible adult, who is capable of knowing when to stop listening and when to seek professional support and help. 

In this episode I address an email from a listener regarding her unhappiness at work. She is finding it hard because she doesn't really feel fulfilled so work has become more and more painful. It is hard to juggle work, kids, marriage and limiting beliefs at the same time. This could also be an issue of self-worth so we need to dive deep into self awareness. 

Sometimes there are only subtle signs that we are unhappy in our jobs. Are any of these signs there for you? 

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