Assess how feeling career stuck is impacting you across ten areas of life - in 30mins. Then, decide what you want to do about it.

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If you're spending valuable hours scrolling job boards or hitting the apply button on cold LinkedIn applications, it's time to rethink your job-seeking approach.

Why?

Because 75% of senior positions are filled through personal connections, not public posts. We could argue about that exact percentage, but the truth is clear, the majority of senior roles are secured before anyone ever thinks about posting a job advertisement.

So, if you find yourself spending a lot of time looking at job adverts, what that suggests is that your personal network isn't strong enough to fill the remainder of your career with work that brings you joy.

That might be a little bit harsh, but if this is the landscape, what can you do about it this week?

[00:30] Rethinking Cold Job Applications

[01:39] The Joy At Work Experiment - Plant 10 Seeds

[01:57] Build Your Work Network

[03:10] Expanding Beyond Work Connections

[04:34] Nurturing Genuine Connections

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Assess how feeling career stuck is impacting you across ten areas of life - in 30 minutes. Then, decide what you want to do about it.

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If you're someone who wants to be a little bit more engaging on LinkedIn, but can't get beyond shyly liking a colleague's post about their recent promotion or sharing those dull as dishwater company updates.

If you can’t figure out what to write, who to write it for, how to write it, what to start with, or who's gonna care and it all feels way too complicated, then you'll want to tune in to this Joy at Work conversation with Mel Booth.

In this conversation, Mel Booth, a digital marketing consultant and co-founder of the Marketing Lab, who is also a self-proclaimed LinkedIn enthusiast, gives practical ideas on how to be more human on LinkedIn while presenting yourself to your current and potential future employers in ways that don't appear robotic, boring, or just bleh.

Let's dive in.

[00:00] Introduction to Engaging on LinkedIn

[00:53] Common LinkedIn Challenges for Mid-Career Professionals

[02:29] Finding Your Sweet Spot on LinkedIn

[03:45] Effective LinkedIn Sharing Strategies

[05:38] Actionable Tips for LinkedIn Engagement

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Did you know that the average toddler, according to some research, hears the word no up to 400 times a day?

Yet it's a word that strikes fear in the heart of many a grown-up professional in their 40s, 50s or 60s.

If we treat rejection and the word no as a big, bad, fearful thing, then we're frankly less likely to ask for the things that we would love in order to thrive at work. We're even less likely to ask for the things that we need to survive at work

So if hearing the word, no, fills you with fear or freezes you into doing what you've always done. Then this week’s Joy At Work Experiment is designed for you.

[00:35] Why We Need To Be Desensitised to the Word 'No'

[02:35] Joy At Work Experiment

[04:05] Fun Rejection Challenges

[06:10] Embracing 'No' for Joy at Work

Get all of the details in our show notes.

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Do you believe that there is a connection between your level of joy and money?

Many people do, which is why it's so important to take a deeper look at the connection between the two.

Today I’m talking with Chris Budd, author of 'The Financial Wellbeing Book' and co-host of the Financial Wellbeing Podcast to discover how our financial habits influence long-term happiness, the set point theory of well-being, and practical advice on becoming more aware spenders. Chris also sheds light on the concept of 'financial well-being junkies' and offers strategies for achieving sustained happiness through meaningful activities and quality social relationships.

Let’s dive in!

[01:12] How can we become “better” spenders?

[01:42] Understanding Set Point Theory

[03:00] Financial Wellbeing Junkies

[05:51] Long-Term Wellbeing Strategies

[06:57] The Importance of Social Relationships

[08:33] Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Spending

[09:29] Conclusion and Additional Resources

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Here's a Joy At Work experiment.

Can you identify the people, the processes, the situations, and the environments that sap your energy, block your creativity, and make you wonder, Is this it? I call these mood vampires your kryptonite.

By getting clear on your personal kryptonite, you get clear on what needs to change, so you get closer to operating at your best more often, which is a huge contributor to joy at work.

The Joy At Work Experiment

Take a few minutes and write down just two things in your work life that drive you around the bend, that suck your soul dry, or evaporate your energy like there's no tomorrow. (If you need some examples, listen to the whole episode!)

Look at what you've written down, then crack open your diary. Is there a way you can banish these soul-sucking tasks from your week entirely?

Or, if full-on deletion feels impossible, could you try experimenting to shave off the time you spend knee-deep in your kryptonite? How about just ten minutes less? What kind of a difference might that make to the amount of joy you have at work?

[00:00] Introduction to Joy at Work Experiment

[00:31] Identifying Your Kryptonite

[01:24] Examples of Workplace Kryptonite

[02:32] Strategies to Combat Kryptonite

[03:30] Joy at Work Experiment Challenge

[03:36] Additional Resources for Life Satisfaction

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Are you constantly exhausted, frustrated, or just generally pissed off with people at work?

Are you job hopping hoping that each change will give you a better workload or culture?

Are you feeling a lot of resentment in your life?

Then you might be suffering from a lack of boundaries.

Louisa Clarke is a high-stakes communication consultant who talks with us about why it is so hard for us to set boundaries, how to recognize the signs that we aren’t setting boundaries soon enough, and a tip on how we can start to improve the boundaries we set.

Let’s Dive In:

[00:47] The Reason We Have Trouble Setting Boundaries

[01:22] Types of Boundaries: No and Need

[03:00] The Consequences of Unclear Boundaries

[05:30] Recognizing and Addressing Resentment

[07:06] Practical Steps to Set Boundaries

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

Too busy, bored, stressed, and unfulfilled at work and don't want another decade of the same. You're in the right place. I'm Lucia Knight, and in my daily work, I train professionals in their 40s, 50s, and 60s to design their work to be much more joyful. And as a result, they become not just more fulfilled, but also more energized and wealthier.

In this podcast, I'm going to show you high in 10 minute episodes. No fluff. No snoozy backstories and no woo woo. Instead, tangible, practical insights into your career happiness that can turn into joy at work today.

We've reached the end of the Joy at Work Summit. Over the course of this event, you've had access to 25 10-minute talks, each crafted to give you an insight, an understanding, an idea, or an action point to boost your joy at work by 10%.

Throughout this summit, I've held a tiny dream for you that you'd take one idea from one of these sessions and experiment with it to see if it's possible to increase your personal joy at work by 10 percent tomorrow.

To make this super easy for you, I'm going to share with you one idea from each of the speakers. That's 25 tiny, potentially joy-inducing experiments. Just pick one.

Try it. See what difference it makes. What have you got to lose? Big dreams, tiny actions. That's how we bring more joy at work. Who knows where this might lead? Become your own joy at work designer.

Next Steps:

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Life Satisfaction Assessment. It's a 30-minute program where I guide you through a deep dive into 10 areas of your life to assess what's bringing you joy and what's bringing you down. I call it Derailed and it's a fabulous place to begin a joy-at-work redesign.

https://www.midlifeunstuck.com/derailed