The more true we can be to our true selves, the better we can show up at work. If it’s not okay to be who I am, then one of my tasks becomes to pretend to be someone else… to change into someone different than myself. That’s an enormous pressure.

It’s pressure without poise.

Poise comes from getting comfortable in your own skin: your own working style, your personal values, your supervision preferences, your areas of interest, your goals and aspirations, your particular skills, etc.

How centered do you feel as you face the pressures of your working day?

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You’ve got to be kidding, right? Who would choose to create their own stress?

In this week’s show, Claudia and I discuss the importance of challenge to a successful career. In other words, we’ll be talking about a positive form of stress relating to getting something done or achieving something new.

We all have a part of ourselves that wants to contribute and make a difference. To accomplish something.

It’s not enough to simply get by. If you aren’t challenging yourself to achieve, then you’re doing yourself a huge disservice.

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It’s a fact. It’s a fact we neglect at our own expense.

To take care of ourselves, we need to keep growing. To stay interested, engaged and feeling alive in our careers we need to keep developing ourselves.

There’s nothing worse than the suffocating feeling of being stuck, bored or overwhelmed day in and day out, year after year.

What is the alternative? In this week’s show, Claudia and I discuss becoming a lifelong learner as a smart career move.

Where is there room to learn something new? You might be able to simplify a complicated procedure. You might work on improving your leadership effectiveness. You might offer to help a respected colleague in order to learn from them.

Far from being purely self-serving, taking care of oneself by learning and developing benefits everyone.

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Then you know the importance of staying motivated and inspired in your efforts.

This week Claudia and I discuss the value of motivation to our ability to show up and perform on a consistent basis.

These are stressful times. How do you keep your spirits up at work?

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Not at the expense of your own well-being!

Self care is neither arrogant entitlement nor antagonistic self-protection. Self-care is realizing that you’re the one who has to show up and perform every day, and you can’t do that well if you’re overwhelmed, overstressed, bored or afraid of losing your job.

Claudia and I have started a new series discussing self care.

Self Care. A Smart Career Move
Week #1: Thriving Instead of Merely Surviving
Week #2: Staying Inspired and Motivated
Week #3: Learning and Developing Yourself
Week #4: Challenging Yourself to Achieve
Week #5: Keeping Yourself Centered and Attentive

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