🏢WorkLife Wednesday: Revitalize Your Work Life

Welcome to WorkLife Wednesday, where we deep-dive into work-life dilemmas to provide valuable insights with tips and tricks to make the work-place a better place.

Good morning. You know the seasons of life where you’re just not excited? You go to work expecting to deliver the same outputs every day, just for the weekend to come and go. This can go on for weeks, months, or years. It’s a notion that millions of people become complacent with, but it’s not too late to revitalize your career, and your team’s. Today we’re covering 3 ways successful people revitalize their work-life so you can get excited about Mondays again:

1. Continuous Improvement

2. Switch Your Routine

3. Get the Hell Out

♾Continuous Improvement. 

A lot of jobs are clerical work. Maybe you schedule a ton of meetings, clean up and enter data in a database, or prepare and process purchase orders. Although these jobs are wildly important to the continuous improvement of your business, they become boring for people like you and me. One way to revitalize your work-life is to step out of the box by revisiting, and improving, your company’s outdated processes. If you’re a business owner, this is essential to growing your business. If you’re an employee, this is essential to climbing the ladder. One reason you might feel stuck at work is you don’t find it challenging enough. Take initiative by identifying projects centered around waste in the processes you have control over. Every company has these wastes:

Look at your companies processes, and flip the stones that haven’t been touched in a while. You’re going to see a few improvements in your work-life after you identify continuous improvement opportunities.

• You’ll find a purpose by improving business processes.

• You’ll build a network by working with cross-functional teams.

• You’ll help others by making their job easier through soft savings.

• You’ll gain visibility to management through proven results and word-of-mouth.

Slight Flex. I recently took this advice by analyzing a category at work that wasn’t touched in a long time. We were overpaying for a product. The fix was easy. I conducted a Request-For-Proposal (RFP) and got updated pricing for the product, giving the company annual savings of $80k and reducing supplier complexity from 11 to 4, giving soft savings to planners and buyers and building a more robust supply chain. This project got me out of bed through its duration. I was excited to work with the cross-function team I built, and they relied on me to deliver, giving me purpose in the work-place. I not only created opportunity for the business, but I built a network that will vouch for my quality of work for future opportunities.

🛌Switch Your Routine.

Remember the excitement of waking up the morning of a field trip in grade school. Most of that excitement can be attributed to a simple change in your routine. The only thing different in your adult life is you’re in control of your time instead of somebody else telling you what to do. For me, this newsletter has changed my routine a lot. Instead of waking up and hopping on my phone, I wake up earlier so I can write for my Wednesday and Thursday newsletters which kickstarts the way I think about the day ahead. Thousands of people have a side hustle that get them excited but there are other ways too. Here are just a few ways I’ve switched my routine to revitalize my work-life:

Make a new work friend. After all, we spend 90,000 hours of our lifetime at work. Building comradery among your network is critical to a successful work-place. You’ll have a new perspective on trust, collaboration, and innovation by getting to know those around you. You’ll find yourself sharing risky ideas, respectfully disagreeing, and building that friendship before you know it.

Challenge: introduce yourself to somebody new at the office.

Use your phone less. Y’all may not want to hear this, but attention spans are shortening. Millennials’ attention spans were measured at 12 seconds in the early 2000s, and Gen Z’s are now at 8 seconds due to the amount of information we have available.

Challenge: commit 1 hour every day, uninterrupted, to any project.

Say “Yes” more. We pass up on a lot of opportunities at work because we get complacent. What’s the point in being here if we don’t experience life?

Challenge: say yes to the next thing put on your plate… no matter what.

🚨Get the Hell Out. 

It’s entirely possible you’re at the wrong company. If you’re not respected, adequately paid, given opportunities for advancement, get the Hell out. Nearly 100 million people quit their jobs in 2021 & 2022, signifying a period economists call “The Great Resignation”. But studies show that people aren’t quitting the workforce altogether, but instead for better opportunities as wages at competing companies were increasing.

Pro-Tip: if you’re searching for a new job, save yourself the headache of falling into another dead end job by reading reviews about working at that company on GlassDoor.com.

_{Written by Bailey Hepler}

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