If previous years are anything to go by, clients return from their holidays having consciously or unconsciously reflected on their current role and career trajectory. Wondering if now is the time for a change.
If you are doing so don’t forget to treasure the intrinsic motivators as well as the extrinsic rewards. We tend to over index on the latter in our decision making. What we might earn, how we want others to see our status, the power a new role may afford us etc.
What about the intrinsic? For example:
– can you do this work from a place of joy rather than resentment?
– can you do this work feeling physically healthy rather than worn out and depleted?
– can you do it in a place you want to live rather than want to escape?
– does this work afford you new learning and growth?
– will your new team and manager be people you want to care about rather than tolerate?
– does this work allow for a purpose and meaning that contributes to the world, not simply take from it?
Sometimes living in a hut that meets your intrinsic needs, can be a better choice than building a cathedral that meets only the extrinsic ones.
Live in a hut while building your cathedral
