Transform Your Work Life A Story of Hope (101) - Dailys SHORT with Kim & Jill

Feeling stuck in your career? It's time to take a stand and explore new paths. In this episode, Kim and Jill dive deep into understanding what truly depletes you at work and how to transform those feelings into opportunities for growth. They share personal anecdotes, like the enlightening "coffee pot" story, illustrating how small shifts in perception can lead to profound changes.

Key Takeaways:
- Identify aspects of your job that drain you and question their impact on your well-being.
- Embrace change when your current path no longer aligns with your beliefs or values.
- Transform mundane tasks into meaningful experiences by shifting perspective.

Tune in now to discover how embracing change can open doors to a more fulfilling career journey!

Hello, everyone, and good morning, Kim. Morning, Jill. Morning, everyone. What is our beautiful message for today? 

All right, it's time to. Oh, all right. This one's hitting me hard. It's time to take a stand in what you believe in. And then I hear career change. Okay, so not necessarily career change, but possibly staying in the same career field, but just different job. And then I hear all one and the same in regards to this message. Okay? So it is about looking at your trajectory in life and where you're going. 

If you are struggling to believe you are on the right path or you are on the right job, you're like, honor that thought process and then start looking inwards as to what do you want to create? What do you want to feel at a job? How do you want it to enhance your life, not deplete your life? 

So to be able to do that is look at the things that are depleting you in your current job and ask yourself why you believe how they are depleting you. What aspects of that role depletes you? And this is this something you can change? Is this a choice or habit that you have created? You're like, really look in depth at those things that are depleting you at your job. 

They may not be depleting you; they may be showing you a way. They may be showing you aspects of yourself that you may want to dive deeper into—some healing work, possibly some understanding about areas that you may have judgments, areas that you may not feel well about yourself. Maybe you're judging yourself or there's a different perception that needs to be done. You're like, all in that. 

Look at what is depleting you. There are things in life you cannot change. There are things in life that that company where you're at is set. Do you want to continue to follow that belief system when it just doesn't resonate with you? You can't change your views anymore because they just do not align with you. Then it's time to go. It's okay to leave. It's okay to say yes to yourself and give yourself permission to just follow a different path.

Nice. Yeah, I have a... It's actually... It's a... It is a... I'll call it career, but career story. So anyway, years ago, years ago, I was at a place where one of the things that I was asked to do was to make the coffee—set the coffee pot up the evening before and put on a timer. And this really bothered me because it had nothing to do with my job. So irritated by it; so irritated by it. And it drained me because I was so judgy about it.

Right. And every time I do it, I was complaining in my head—blah, blah, blah—and I was judging about a lot of the things in that career too. So this particular one stands out because to me it's just very funny—so judgy—I just remember. And finally I was there, and I had tuned in, and I couldn't leave right then, but my ambition was to leave—which I did eventually.

So in the interim, I worked on myself to become really involved in this coffee process. And I will share that I eventually loved making the coffee also. I still left. Yeah. That's okay. But obviously that experience still sticks with me.

That coffee pot thing comes to me when I get all judgy about things when I feel things sucking away my energy. And sometimes I just can't shift something—that's when I know like, okay, I can't shift; it doesn't align like you said, Kim—and there's change needs to happen.

But I've surprised myself at times when I've been able to shift something. And I'll say remember the coffee pot? And I mean, I kid you not; I had deep joy as I was making this coffee and blessing the people that were going to drink it in the morning—that they experienced joy from it and started their day off well—and it was coffee I'd never drink! And I love coffee.

Wow! You played with it! You turned it into a little bit of a game! And we talk about that a lot! So, you know, just to bring a little levity—to lighten things up a little bit—because sometimes when we find out what's draining in our life it's not super fun to look at that.

Yep! But it's very important and you can do it with that game mindset in mind! And it took me—it wasn't overnight—I had to practice! I like incrementally worked my way from like resentment and judgy—intensive resentment and judgy—into that deep love for it! It was a process!

It was so valuable! It was so valuable because it's something I still use today—the coffee pot way! And you know what the most beautiful thing is about that? Is when you learn to appreciate those things that annoy you or that you're very judgy... Oh! You actually give yourself that permission to let it go!

Yeah! So it creates more doorways to open up for you! 

Yeah! Yes! Oh yes! Fantastic! Yeah! Good stuff again as always Kim! Thank you so much!

Thank you! Thank you Jill! Thank you everyone!

All right until next time!