THE BLOG
You’re usually primed to fend off the stinky vibes of the office moodhoover, but they caught you on a bad day and now you’ve caught their WorkGloom… You really wish you had a boss or a leader you could look up to, but they’re too snowed under/too underqualified/too crap, to give you a second thought… […]
Your comfort zone has become a dead zone and you know you have to make a change, but you can’t imagine getting up the courage… Your company has announced ‘exciting changes’, which may or may not be code for ‘restructuring and redundancies’, and you don’t know whether to stick or twist… You’re just bloody knackered […]
It really can be hard to tell whether you should stay or you should go, especially when you’re struggling under a cloud of WorkGloom. Sometimes you absolutely do need to request your P45; equally, sometimes it can be a good idea to take a breath and do some proper thinking before you march to HR. That’s what this guide is for. To help you pause, help you weigh up options, help you see things from a different perspective.
Hands up if you find boundaries…let’s say…problematic. No one teaches us the skills to deal with this new culture we’ve found ourselves in, how to create and protect firm boundaries or how to exercise our ‘no’. Enter, moi.
You’ve been chasing work-life balance for who knows how long, but as soon as you seem to get close, it slips through your fingers again… You’ve been gunning it for so long, you’ve got nothing left. You don’t eat well, sleep well, you’re always ill and you can’t muster the enthusiasm for anything… You played […]
This one’s for the coasters – those among us who are kind of drifting along in their job, feeling like they’re lucky to even have a job and probably shouldn’t ask for more. IIf you’re feeling like you’re drifting off track and want to get back on, you’re absolutely in the right place.
I think most of us know what brings us joy. But something baffling happens: even though we know what brings us joy, we don’t do it. We cancel our own joy and then some time later find ourselves in the depths of gloom and wonder how we got there.
There’s one topic that my community just can’t get enough of. They love the module on it in my course and the chapter on it in my book. Yep, squads. And with good reason.
We all have stories floating around in our heads. The problem is, we sometimes forget that they’re stories at all.
WorkGloom is feeling like we’re not in control of the work we do and/or the career being laid out before us. Feeling like someone else is calling the shots can make anyone miserable, but there is light at the end of that particular tunnel. Promise…!
