Is What You Are Doing What You Really Need To Do?

What happens when you realize what you currently are doing professionally really isn’t what you need to do. How do you react? Do you accept your current situation? Or will you take action on what is possible when you move one millimeter beyond what is comfortable?

Is what you are doing what you really need (or want) to be doing, moving forward?

As I mentor more professionals who feel stuck in their current roles, I often ask them this question. Self-realization time: many of these professionals are comfortably in control of themselves (and others). They take pride in always having the right answer to the question. As a result, they fail to look beyond themselves for additional information that can get them unstuck from where they are today. Yet they continue to feel out of sync within their current professional environments.

Is what you really need to do no longer aligned with the professional role you currently fulfill?

Next, put a lot more thought into what frustrates you. Often these factors involve ideas, skills, capabilities, and mindset which are new, next, and changing. Then consider whether you are open to making changes in the mindset, habits, and potentially skills which hold you back from moving forward. Why or why not?

Also, it is not up to someone else to read your mind, understand your professional frustrations, and then rush off to make you happy. How can people know you need assistance if you consciously (or unconsciously) shut them out? Is it time to reach out into uncharted waters so you can professionally evolve and break through?

Then, consider that your current professional role has more breadth and depth to it than you realize. There are people already waiting for you to reach out to them. What is possible for you resides one millimeter beyond what is professionally comfortable.

Why continue to try to figure out the right answer or control your scenario yourself? Instead explore your organization. Identify individuals who have more creative and innovative answers than you. These professionals often are outside your professional discipline, pay grade, level of education, or generation. Take another one millimeter forward to get to where you really need to go.

Start working through the questions I ask in this post. Then take the next one millimeter step forward towards what is new, next, and changing. Click here. Let’s get started together, one millimeter at a time.

How do people who solve problems differently collaborate more successfully? Are you a relentlessly curious problem-solver or are you a traditionalist? Or are you described as a cost center or a revenue generator? Then again, are you proactive and anticipatory about what is new, next, and continuously changing or do you play it safe and comfortable, letting others assume risk?

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