People feel trapped in routine work that pays the mortgage … but fails to challenge their minds. If that describes you – why not fuel a brain based approach beyond boredom.
In order to launch your new career without financial losses along the way …
1. Block out 10 minutes daily … to create a wider vision for your skills
. This reflective time could be during a commute. Or it could be a regular break at work. Tt should be set for the same time daily though. That way your brain will map out new spaces for reflection. And before long future planning will become a regular habit ... as you build neuron pathways that move you past boredom and toward a custom designed enterprise.
2. Ask What if …? Then consider how one interest you’d like to cultivate could generate a revenue stream. What if I build cupboards to sell at Christmas? Or … What if I used my accounting skills to start a business for clients who need help with income tax returns? The key is to ask a question that draws your top talents toward an income opportunity.
3. Create one target to move another step toward the possibility you’ve envisioned. It could be as small as redesigning a room to work at home … or as broad as talking to a bank manager to check out business loan possibilities.
4. Try this survey to spark your interest and draw from your unique mix of intelligences. Where could this mental glance … beyond tedium … lead you, as you continue to pay bills at the same time?
The idea is to look beyond dull work routines that simply pay your bills in order to develop new neuron pathways toward talent that could fire opportunities. People who drop their jobs cold turkey often take financial hits too hard to fix. Have you seen it happen?
Those who plan ahead … even while they pay bills from boring jobs … can create a mental organizer with new neuron pathways toward a finer situation. Could it work for you?
I’m enjoying your website very much, and think the focus on brain functioning is extremely useful.
Some of the people I work with I call “Desert Island Professionals.” They’re people who are in professional positions they can’t stand, but can’t leave.
Boredom is not usually their problem. In most cases, my folks have taken professional positions in the hopes of using their talents and education to help clients or patients, but have run into poorly managed or otherwise toxic workplaces. The reasons they’re stuck are often good or valid reasons – e.g. compelling financial circumstances, flexible hours that dovetail with child rearing, health benefits, and so on.
One of the outcomes of facing up to their circumstances is to adjust to having to be there in a way I call “bloom in place.” So I’m looking at the utility of your “brain based” based exercises for boredom, and applying them to people who are also “stuck” – possibly for different reasons – but need to make the present liveable or even better. Small steps, with as little emotional turbulence as possible, is the way – and your website looks like it’s full of little tips in that vein.
Thanks.
Posted by: Shaun Kieran | December 5, 2007 1:01 PM | Permalink to Comment