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Dec 4
Trapped in Routine Work?


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 skillsvision2010_index_01_000.jpg. 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?

 


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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.

Shaun, thanks for stpping by -- and you speak for many emails we get here at the brain based renewal center. Our focus on brain functioning is extremely useful in that it allows another look at how to move forward with the unique talents we each bring to the table.

You are right in that many people set out with hopes of using their talents and education to help clients or patients, but have run into poorly managed or otherwise toxic workplaces.

We show people who think they are stuck -- how to begin to use their talents to step forward past the ruts that claim their energies:-)

I like your approach to 'bloom in place" and agree that we can often come alive where we are to help others there too -- to step forward out of shared ruts!

As you suggest it takes ... " Small steps, with as little emotional turbulence as possible," but it also takes knowing how to work with rather than against the human brain. Let me know how we can support your fine efforts in this area! All the best! Ellen

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