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You Understand Your Business But You Don't Like Doing It!

Debra Templar-Group - Friday, September 11, 2009
You understand the business you are in but you just can't take it. 
   
   
It's no longer for you.  You're just going through the motions.  You open the store.  You tend the counter.  You take the money.  You pack up the goods.  You are courteous (except when you are pushed) but you just can't stand it anymore.

There's no real purpose to your work - even your life.

And the worst news is you are the
owner!

I know how that feels.  So do countless others across the Western retail world.  We expect to enjoy our work and decide whether it is meaningful enough for us before we'll agree to put our heart into it.  It seems as though we have an epidemic of 'the right to enjoy our work'.  Once upon a time people simply worked; down the mine, at the forge, at the mill, in the paddock and the helm.  They didn't think about anything but death separating them from their lot in life.

We're getting choosier

As you've noticed, all that's
changed.

Most of us are well enough educated and multi-skilled to pick and choose between many options in a lifetime. Whether that is right or wrong is not for me to judge.  It is, however, the reality of today's working environment.

So little wonder that you might be reading this and wondering whether you'l ever be able to develop a passion for what you do.

Take the test:
Here are a few simple questions to clear your head:

 1.a.  Are you really at your wit's end, or

    b.  Do you just need a holiday?
                                  
  If a. go to Question 2.

If b. go on  a holiday and come back a nicer person or if your holidays aren't due, get longer sleep, exercise a bit more, eat less fat and sugar and don't rage so much on your days off.  You might be surprised at how much better your job looks after a week of early nights.  You'll certainly look better.
 2.a. Is the job you are in the only one you can get, or

    b.  Are your skills instantly portable?
   If a. either: stay where you are and get to like it, or
start a study course that will equip you with new skills for either a promotion or a new job, or
compound your problems ten-fold by leaving and not having a job.
but please don't stay there wasting away.

If b. give fair notice and go find somewhere else to work so you can catch on fire with a new purpose.                                                            

















 3.a. Do you just think a change will do you good?

    b.  Do you understand that every job requires you to have a passion about it?
   If a. remember that shifting a dead body to a new coffin willnot bring it back to life.  You'll simply be taking your worms with you.  You need to sort out why you're on the planet first.

If b. (as in 2 b. above), give fair notice and go find somewhere else to work so you catch fire with a new purpose
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More questions in the next instalment....

      

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   Over the past 20 something years I have gained many skills and worked with fabulous people! I am a retail enthusiast, keynote speaker, consultant and business coach, trainer, author and 'doer'.

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