Set a Goal
I have yet to work for a company that didn’t have some kind of contest going that was meant to improve morale (and sometimes performance). In an effort to engage employees and show them some perks, department heads create these challenges for their staff. Well, what keeps us from setting up our own goals? If your work life is something you dread but you’ve determined that you need to stick to it for whatever reason, set a work goal. Maybe you’ve had some level of success in an area but there has been some measurement that has eluded you that you can aim for. Maybe there has been a relationship with a coworker that has hindered your work that you can examine. There could be an account that you’ve tried to land or a customer service goal you find interesting. The fun thing about this goal is that it’s one you set for yourself. It is not mandated by anyone else and it can be as serious or as silly as you want it to be. If you’ve been in the pits about work, there are chances that your attendance or tardiness has become an issue. Well, set a goal that you will be attentive and on time for the next 30 days. Do this thing for you, and not for anybody else. In this, you keep your power and you are working for yourself! It should be a personal challenge and doesn’t need to be shared because the goal is not that you be recognized. The power lies in the fact that you took a bad situation and made use of it for your gain.
Get Real, You have Bills to Pay
So here’s the cycle. You start off life with whatever your parents gave you. At some point, you start working and you earn your own money. We begin the life of consumers and we consume. We partner with people and our interests are multiplied so we work more and start earning more money. Countless books have been written on personal finance so I will spare you the common rhetoric. You know you have to work. People are counting on you and your responsibilities are your responsibilities. Regardless of the work environment, be professional. Your misery has to be managed and your attitude needs to be capped. It is unfair for us to make the workplace worse by infecting it with grief. So please don’t get to the point where security is called over and you’re being walked out the door. When you leave to find a better work environment, it should be on your terms at the time you determine.
Darice Rene is Bizrighter. With a passion for business and leadership, she publishes getting through the work week, (www.bizrighter.com) a blog that brings attention to the legions of unhappy employees at work. As someone who has held far too many “jobs”, she’d like to take some of the dread out of Mondays through comedic, sarcastic and sometimes harsh reality.
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