How does your mindset affect work?
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How confident do you feel in your job?
If you’ve gone through a series of events in your career that make you doubt your abilities in your job, then you may feel like you don’t have the confidence to excel in your job.
Maybe you’ve been unsupported in your role, burnt out, and unsure how to move forward.
Maybe you’ve taken a few jobs to help you pay the bills and you’re not sure how to get your dream job.
Maybe you’ve had to take some time out of your career to be a caregiver.
Maybe you’ve been jumping from job to job, unfulfilled and unhappy, and unsure why you keep repeating the same thing over and over again.
Let’s say you’ve tried ‘everything’ to get the ideal job that you want and it’s not working. Consider how you react. Do you feel stuck when you get rejected or do you take that rejection to drive you to keep moving forward?
If you’ve been out of the job market for a while, you may think that you don’t have the skills to get the job you want. What if you could see things differently? How can you use your gaps to give you a competitive advantage?
Reframing your current circumstances can be challenging when you’re ‘in it.’ So do what you need to do and acknowledge your feelings and emotions.
Here are 3 reminders to train your mindset to give you more confidence:
Remember the learnings that you’ve gained along the way. What were the lessons that you learned in your previous jobs? How did these lessons shape the person that you are today?
Be grateful for the failures. This can be tough if you’re going through it, so give yourself the time and space to acknowledge yourself. Your failures gave you more information about yourself. Consider how much stronger you are for overcoming the challenges and struggles that you didn’t think you could handle.
Building confidence comes from learning how to navigate through failures, so keep reminding yourself about the learnings that you can take into your next job. Keep stacking those positive learnings and remind yourself that it took courage to go through failures.
When I think back to my early days of baking sourdough bread, there were so many ‘tester’ loaves that were over-proofed and un-proofed. I kept testing over and over, followed different recipes, and reached out to ask questions to improve my bread-making skills to keep refining and learning. In that way, I had to get over my ‘failures’ to keep going and improve. In the same way, can you think of how this analogy can apply to your career?
3. Remind yourself that you went through experiences that are valuable for your job and career. Your life experiences give you a unique perspective, so use these experiences to tell your story and share your learnings to help others who may be struggling.
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