Don’t be fooled by my LinkedIn profile. Yes, my LinkedIn profile shows my linear career path and promotions over the last 20+ years working in HR.
To some it appears that I had all my sh*t together, and some days I did and some days not so much.
I worked hard, and then harder with the next promotion in sight each time. I learned a lot, and I cried a lot (in my car in the parking lot).
This is why you will often hear me say:
I am thankful for the lessons and the blessings.
My career has been rewarding but there’s a point in almost every career, often after years of being the reliable one, the one who handles it, the one who takes on more and more, when busy stops feeling the same as productive.
When it stops feeling sustainable.
You realize that taking more on without letting some things go or grinding harder doesn’t earn you what’s next. It’s setting you back in your career or in your personal life.
Maybe you’re circling a promotion. Maybe there’s a project sitting unclaimed that you’d love to work on. Maybe you’re circling your way towards something entirely new.
Welcome to the 5-Week Work Mindset Shift.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll walk you through the mindset shift that continues to help me grow, develop, and make room for the work I want to do.
It’s a shift that I have leaned on to stay successful at work. It’s a shift I now also use to make room for wellbeing and new things I want to learn and experience.
This shift is not about avoiding hard work. Hard work is fulfilling, builds resilience and feels pretty damn great when you’ve tackled a challenge.
This shift is about doing hard work without grinding yourself to the ground by taking on more without limits.
Some of those promotions you see on my LinkedIn profile were a result of taking on more responsibilities and projects without letting go of old responsibilities.
I took on more work, worked more hours while also being a mom and caregiver to family members. I love to work but I worked so much that my love of work burned out.
Until I learned to work differently, some may call it working smarter.
I call it working heart-er.
A way to do hard work with heart, in a way that makes you feel excited and expanded about the work you are doing and that allows you to make room for the other things you want to do and experience.
So, let’s get started with part one of the work mindset shift. Each part will build on the last.
