Embracing a cause that is bigger than yourself fuels internal change, creates community and clarifies your personal intention. It’s conscious work toward a greater purpose. This doesn’t necessarily mean changing jobs or careers, but perhaps identifying the elements of significance in your own work or vocation.
Our invincible nature as human beings allows us to not only survive burnout in our 24/7 work life merge, but also to evolve and thrive. By cultivating resilience, we can spark our own unique restorative skills, navigate info-overload and foster innovation to consciously evolve in the workplace.
In our 24/7 world, which is struggling for a collective social conscience, I believe that the value of the HUMAN experience as we strive for a better WORK LIFE experience, must be acknowledged in the workplace and in business if we are to evolve as a society. Profit too frequently trumps the people component in the business cycle.
Among them, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, in an unusual gathering in Southern California designed to discuss a more conscious approach toward the problems of the world. It sounds like a lofty goal, but from that original meeting emerged a manifesto of sorts called A Call to Conscious Evolution.
A study done by Bright Horizons Family Solutions (which offers employer services) in conjunction with Dr. Jamie Ladge of Northeastern University found that employees who work for companies that offer child and elder care support reported less stress and health issues.
Author Rebecca Shambaugh chronicles Clinton’s resilience factor in her new book Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton (McGraw-Hill 2010).
Might be a good time to give it a shot. Pamela Slim’s, Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, is a great place to start. She’s profiled in this weeks WorkLife Nation Webisode with Judy Martin.
In Careerbuilders latest survey, it wasn’t the fact that nearly 1 in 5 workers were looking to switch careers that sparked my interest even as we slowly recover from the job sector doldrums, but the reasons why.
Workplace stress has a way of escalating during the holidays. Case in point, over the Thanksgiving holiday, a normally exuberant co-worker seemed uncharacteristically disengaged from the typical office banter, and seemed on edge.
