Resilience – Pagina 2 – Crisbie Coach

Are You Ready for the Job of the Future?

Nowadays, we see that a lot of jobs no longer exist in the market, or they are about to disappear. If they will not disappear, they will change tremendously.

In the future, there will be more people that are self-employed then employees. Flexibility and life-long training will be more and more needed as it will be necessary to switch from a competence to another one, depending on the project or job.

Besides your own professional network, you will need to develop a professional identity. The more it will be clear and coherent, the more your competencies will be noted.

To build a professional branding, you need to act on two levels:

Professional: knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA);
Personal: values, purpose of life, engagement, without speaking about your private life unless it has implications on your job or project.

Whether you are an employee or a self-employed, the future belongs to those who train themselves not only with the new technologies, but also strengthening their own abilities to act in diverse and complex situations.

By participating in training courses, managing a new project, starting a new job you may learn new KSA. Try to anticipate trends or find a niche to develop.

Working with the uncertainty of the future (temporary contracts, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) will mean not only knowing how to manage your own finance between one salary and another, but also a certain inner anxiety caused by your vision of the future, your personal identity and the reflection on your values. You will therefore need to develop your intuition, learn or improve project management and quickly direct your experiences, transforming them into added value for others.

In summary, to be able to work in the future you need to learn regularly and to develop great resilience, so that you will be able to influence your environment, the organisation you will be working for and even the society, through the development of:

1. a strong professional identity;

2. appropriate meaning and values;

3. continuing training.

You don’t know where to start from? Send me an email and we will look at it together!

Happiness at Work

Who is happy at work? If you would win € 10 million, would you keep going to work? Not me. I don’t think I would stop working in the sense that I would stop doing any activity, but I would no longer do the work I am doing now. I would dedicate myself to one of my passions, for example travelling. I would also volunteer, I would continue to write this blog and go to Pilates.

In short, I would more or less continue to live the life I am living now without doing the same job and without feeling obliged to earn enough to make my living. This is actually the core issue: in most of the cases we work to support ourselves and our families and not because we like it. So talking about happiness at work is an exaggeration, at least in some cases. Ask an underpaid worker who works on the assembly line if they are happy to go to work. Or to a teacher harassed by the students if their job motivates them. Or a nurse doing stressful night shifts, if they’d rather stay at home to sleep.

The concept of happiness at work seems to me a bit forced, yet a lot of people talk about it, without considering that a large number of employees do not like the work they do but have no other choice, especially in economic downturn such as the current one (at least in Europe). It seems to me a bit like a race towards a goal that cannot be achieved.

Then let’s look at the increase of the cases of burn-out. In Europe, France holds the record with their 10% of active population suffering from burn-out. Is it better in other European countries? Actually, the key question to ask would be if there is a good balance between private life and working life. People are better where Governments implement policies to balance work with life.

The problem of work is therefore the space it occupies in our lives. Attention, space not time. Space means not only the time actually spent at the workplace, but also the time spent thinking about work, the famous work that you take home and that disturbs our private life.

What to do then to change this constant thought that we have towards work?

Have a look at the techniques described in the following posts:

5 Tips to Start The Day Anxiety-Free

5 Reasons Why Hiking Is Good for the Body, Soul And Spirit

How to Relax in 10 Steps: Making Space Within You

Try also to be grateful for what you have without thinking that this means lack of ambition. It simply means to stop chasing a chimera and to seek your well-being in what you have. Well-being, not happiness, because well-being is a state that can become permanent, while happiness is a moment, or some moments, that may fade away soon.

Pursuing well-being means beginning a journey made of small steps that could lead us to happiness but if the longed happiness is not achieved, the most important thing is being well.

Burn-out and perfectionism

Are you the kind of person who targets higher and higher and is never satisfied with the reached result? It is not a defect, don’t worry. Being perfectionist, however, is a weapon to double cut. If you are too much demanding with yourself, you are a candidate to the burn-out.

Perfectionism is like stress: in small doses it is fine, but when it is too much it is too much! It takes different forms and changes according to the people. Generally, the perfectionist is a victim of the working environment, or of the social or family pressure.

For instance, people who always want to try to be a model employee and always work more, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, they are perfectionist.

This behavior can be harmful because it can turn the initial motivation into professional fatigue. A person of this type works in an inflexible and rigid way. They don’t take distance from their job and they don’t accept to commit errors.

Other kind of perfectionists, get lost in details, they work a lot but not in an efficient way. Others still focus on smaller assignments, because they are afraid to face greater projects and not to succeed in managing them and to conduct them up to the end. The fear of failure that some types of perfectionist feel, can prevent them to accept new challenges.

Sometimes, they also behave like that at home, in a familiar environment. Their place must be always under impeccable conditions and when they come back from work they don’t let go and take a rest, but they start rearranging and cleaning.

In the long run, people like that become fragile and vulnerable. They can go into a burn-out, alimentary troubles or a depression. In the case of a burn-out, their energy progressively decreases because of a constant overload/overwork. If then other factors are added like a little gratifying job or missing recognition of their contribution at work, the risk of burn-out increases.

What can perfectionists do? They should try to focus more on the process, rather than on the result. The result actually depends also on external circumstances that the person cannot always control. Moreover, those people can look for things they like and that are energising, like hobbies, passions, going out with friends, spending more time with their family. The perfectionists have to learn to know better themselves, asking themselves what they like to do, what gives them energy.

They should also learn that human beings make mistakes and that you learn by your own errors.

To invent the light bulb, 5000 attempts were necessary!

Becoming Resilient

What is resilience? Resilience is the capability to recover quickly from difficulties and withstand stress and catastrophe. Resilient people have the optimistic belief that failures can be opportunities to learn, develop new skills, ideas or career options. You can read further on what it means to be resilient here.

According to psychologists, you can develop resilience in several ways. First, exercise regularly and get enough sleep, so that you can control stress more easily. The stronger you feel physically and emotionally, the easier it is for you to overcome challenges. Then, focus on thinking positively, and try to learn from past experiences. Build strong relationships with colleagues and friends, so that you have a support network to fall back on. Set specific and achievable personal goals that match your values and will drive you to achieve your purpose. Work on building your self-confidence.

Have a look at those stories of individuals who have shown resilience to overcome failure and achieve success:

famous entrepreneur stories

23 Incredibly Successful People Who Failed At First

Would you like to learn how to respond to the challenges of your daily lives in a more balanced and sustainable way?

Would you like to understand your own personal feelings, needs and limitations?

Would you like to start thinking positively and to be creative?

Get in touch with me, I will help you to get there!