Use R4 to turn your life into a Dynamo of Power

Are you tired of being tired, and want more from our work/life balance? From the first day we join our professions are days are numbered. Think about it, once hired you will eventually leave; one way or another you will leave. As we go further along through the years we become distracted, loose focus, and eventually become lethargic as we sail our schooner on the Sea of Apathy. But there is hope! We have R4 to help you get out of the doldrums’ and rejuvenate yourself and your career.

No one intentionally gets apathetic about their careers, it just happened. Time to get out of denial and reclaim your given right to be happy, motivate, and excited about your life and work! Use R4: Reset, Reassess, Reconnect, Reinvigorate

Reset: Bam! Take a look at your work life balance, a true examination of your life, thoughts, and feelings. Are you happy how things are going? Did you once have more energy and zest for life? Well, if you want to improve you need to hit the Reset button. Make the commitment that things will be different. Change the course of the schooner from the Sea of Apathy and head to the Tranquil Ocean. You must make the commitment. You are worth the time, just hit the Rest button and go after it!

Reassess: Time to go back and look at your priorities. Do you have any? Do you have too many? Is this where you want o be in life? Well, a little secret, priorities are a list from 1 to whatever number you want. Go back and number your “chores” and turn them into priorities. As we move along in our careers we often feel our time with our families or retirement become higher priorities than work. I said priorities are numbered, right. I didn’t say they were all in the same path. You can have an outside of work set of priorities and a different road that has at work priorities. The problem people have is when they try to make both roads converge. Don’t keep them separate. While at work, reassess you priorities.  Determine what you want out of your work and set those priorities. Do you want to learn new skills? Well take the bull by the horns and go learn new ones. Do you need new challenges or want more responsibility? Well, go out and take more on, don’t wait for someone to bring something to you. GO GET IT! Once you have reassessed, don’t get bogged down by the new challenges that come along.  Make a set of challenges and list them from 1 to what ever number you want. When you finish number 1 the next one in line becomes the new number 1. Work your way down till you have finished all number 1’s. 

Reconnect: This may scare your friends, family, boss and coworkers! Start over and make the connections that you once had and made your work enjoyable. (If your new work priorities indicate you need a new job then make the connection with a recruiter at a new business, make the call and make the connection.) Go out and talk to your co-workers. Talk, don’t bitch. Make the connections to people and find out their interests again. You may have more in common than you once thought.

Reinvigorate: Once you have reset you attitude, determined what is important through the reassess process, reconnected to those around you and made new connections with people you have begun to meet, you will begin to be reinvigorated. Once your life’s priorities are in alignment with who you really are then everyone stand back, because you are about to be a dynamo. You will have more zest for life and begin to live life and not muddle through the time you still have on this earth. Go out be daring, and make a Splash on the Matrix.