Need more joy in your work? The critical starting point...
You’ve figured out that work is the problem…
But what does that matter? Everyone’s bored in their job, aren’t they?
Nope, they’re not.
If work is genuinely causing you a problem right now, you need to address it. I have ways to help you do this. We can fix this.
Instead of resigning yourself to thinking that this is your lot, there are ways to stop (over)thinking and start figuring out the three or four activities that have the power to bring joy to your working days.
Your Superpowers are WAY more powerful than your strengths. They energise you to move mountains, lightly. They fuel you to create and solve, quickly, lightly, easily. And they press on your hidden deep-satisfaction-button like nothing else.
The starting place is discovering your Superpowers.
I’ve never met anyone, no matter how successful, who can articulate their top 3 or 4 unique Superpowers - the skills that allows them to control their work satisfaction - succinctly, off the top of their head.
Which hamstrings their control over the joy they feel in their daily work-life.
So, when I work one-to-one with clients, it’s the only place to start.
When we work together to discover your Superpowers, I work with you as a partner who understands your world but isn’t actually a part of it.
This isn’t the time for empathy.
It’s time for objectivity.
Think of our work together as some kind of virtual jigsaw of happiness.
But before you rule this out as all being a bit happy-clappy, know that it’s really the best metaphor we can use. Because, without having your corner pieces firmly in place at the start of your game, it’s anyone’s guess at how easily your picture of the future is going to take shape.
Those corner pieces… well, for the sake of this metaphor, they’re your superpowers.
Yep, the only place to start is finding your superpowers…
Let’s talk Superpowers – what the hell are they?
When you nail down your three or four unique Superpowers you can wave goodbye to doing below-average, soul-destroying work that erodes you from the inside out. Instead put yourself behind the driving seat, and in control of future work happiness.
Your Superpowers energise you to the core.
They are your unique-to-you ultra-strengths - the skills you could happily use every minute of every day and still have the will to live (get sweaty, love your partner, engage enthusiastically with the kids) when you get home from work.
Your Superpowers make time whizz by.
They are the skills that you’re busy using when you glance at the clock and realise that half the day has already gone (in a good way).
Your Superpowers turn you into a keen bean.
They are the activities you’re keen to do first and do often – and generally find yourself putting your hand up to do for others.
Let’s face it, you love this stuff.
Discovering your three or four Superpowers is the place to start– right now - if joyful work is attractive to you.
Why are Superpowers so important?
When you have a total hold on the three or four superpowers that are unique to you, you can:
Say “No!” to stuff that doesn’t make you happy (and not feel guilty about it).
Say “Yes!” to ideas that, actually, just might work for you….
Silence the screams that come from that irritating ‘fear of failure’ complex that wants to keep you rooted right where you are.
Clear that annoying fog of indecision from your future, because that’s keeping you stuck to the spot, as well!
Throw out any romantic notions of ‘a leap of faith’… (don’t get me started on how absolutely unnecessary this is).
Stop wasting valuable time overthinking, worrying and complaining - and start taking some action.
Even though I offer a couple of programmes to enhance your work-life-satisfaction, if you work with me one-to-one we’ll need to start right here, discovering your Superpowers.
How you look to others when you’re using your Superpowers…
To others, it looks like you’re scaling mountains but this is easy, light, fast work for you. That you can deliberately design into tomorrow, and every other tomorrow.
Why do we start with Superpowers?
Because we need to lock in those corner pieces of your jigsaw – if that metaphor still works for you.
We need rock-solid foundations upon which to build a future career strategy because everything else is just tactics or trial and error.
Do you really have time for trial and error?
I’ll answer that for you. No, you don’t.
But you DO have time to pick up the phone and call me now to get started!
Want proof?
Discovering their Superpowers during The Personal Redesign programme had a big impact on all of these clients.
Get the low-down on the finer details…
The quickest, lightest, easiest way to discover your Superpowers is to invest in the done-for-you The Personal Redesign programme where I do some the heavy lifting. Or all of the heavy lifting - if you choose the Speedy Sherpa option.
Here’s exactly what we’d do over our first month together.
If you’ve got more time and energy to invest in discovering your own Superpowers for yourself, I show you how in The Fierce Emporium programme.
In this little Tedx talk, you’ll hear about a formula for career happiness that I discovered after waking from my “career coma”. Hint: Superpowers play a big part in the formula.
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