How to Find Job Satisfaction Through Personal Development and Growth
Learn to Control Your Anger
Do you get “set off” easily at work? Even if you don’t have an outburst, seething with anger doesn’t help you do a better job. Perhaps it’s time to focus on this area of personal development.
Consider these thoughts:
Why do you get angry?
How has your anger affected your work, especially relationships?
Who takes the brunt of your anger?
Has your anger had any consequences, such as losing your job?
Often, anger arises because you are searching for control but can’t find it.
However, if you work on accepting situations and circumstances, it becomes much easier to not get angry. This can help to increase your job satisfaction as you are no longer frustrated by your lack of control.
Don’t Hold On to Grudges
Another way to find satisfaction in your job is to not hold on to a grudge. For example, you are displeased because a coworker was promoted to a new position ahead of you. But holding a grudge because you feel overlooked only make things worse at work. And it certainly doesn’t promote a healthy work environment.
Instead, us the process of personal development to analyze why you hold on to those grudges. Are they helping you to advance in your career? Or are they, in reality, holding you back?
Think about how you can let go of those grudges and toxic thinking. You’ll feel much happier at your work.
Accept People for Who They Are
Focusing on your personal development also allows you to be more open to accepting people for who they are. When you realize that you cannot force change, that concept becomes very liberating at work.
It means that the boss who has the annoying way of delegating tasks isn’t as annoying. Or the person who takes way too many breaks doesn’t bother you.
However, being more open and accepting doesn’t mean that you have to do away with standards, especially those associated with courtesy and professionalism. But it does help with coping with those little habits and mannerisms that plague every work environment.
Be Open to New Ways of Thinking
The owner of your company has just dropped a bombshell. Everything you do at work is being turned upside-down. The old ways of operating are being tossed out the window for an entirely different system.
You start to feel the tension in the room as your coworkers get stressed-out. Change is hard, especially when it feels the old way of doing things “worked.”
Yet, if you can accept that change is inevitable in life, then it becomes less distressing when it happens to you. And it won’t diminish your enjoyment of your job.
How Can You Daily Foster Personal Development and Growth?
You don’t have to go on a retreat to a monastery to work on personal development and growth. Rather, you can start right now on little changes that can pay-off down the line.
For example:
Allowing yourself some personal time in the morning before work
Practicing breathing exercises to control your emotional reactions
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes to gain their perspective
Talking about these issues with a trusted friend or even a therapist
If you are struggling to find job satisfaction at work, it’s time to start focusing on your personal development. By shifting your perspective, even a little, you will find that work isn’t the chore you thought it was.