Career Coaching: Why Am I SO Exhausted?
Career Coaching: Why Am I SO Exhausted? Many, MANY clients have shown up exhausted in the last couple of years and they have absolutely no idea why…
… and yet, when we begin to look at both the content and the context of their work lives together, swiftly, all becomes clear — What’s usually beneath this chronic level of fatigue is A Core Value’s Conflict.
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What’s that? It’s a situation where a situation in either your life or your work begins to corrode you from the inside.
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We each have our three or four core values. For example, mine are “Justice, Authenticity and Joy” (who knew ??? joy and career coach in the same sentence – this is unexpected!)
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Having identified these, I can use them in my decision making process — If a client or an organisation that wants to hire me ISN’T going to bring me any of these OR is going to go against them, I am learning to pass this work on.
Likewise, once yoo know your core values, if you look at a job vacancy or a promotion and this wont honour yours. You can save a whole heap of time by not filling in the job application at all — it isn’t a role you want need.
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“Nobody on the outside will mind. Probably nobody on the outside will ever see it. You however, on the inside, will be doing battle with yourself.”
However, if you are already in a place of work where your values are in questioned you WILL in time become increasingly tired. Why? It’s because working for an organisation or doing a task that compromises your core values, creates conflict within you.
Nobody on the outside will mind. Probably nobody on the outside will ever see it. You however, on the inside, will be doing battle with yourself.
Career Coaching: Why Am I SO Exhausted?
For example if one of you core values is honesty and you know that the widget your organisation trades in doesn’t do what it says on the tin, or it’s production involves covert slave labour then, you will carry that core values conflict within yourself during every single interaction you have every single Work day
This Is Exhausting
So, if you feel exhausted – maybe there’s a core values conflict happening for you. And, maybe your conflict has been going on for far too long.