At the end of the year, are you okay with the work of the year?
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “ Career Study Club ” (ID: xjysyyxs), author Cang Yan.
Recently, a workplace-related legal variety show “Emotional Offer” has attracted more and more people. The fairy fight between 8 interns is so addictive that you can really access real cases. Since then, everyone frequently rolls around in the workplace.
Deng Bingying, a talented girl at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, has always missed the first place. Even after staying up all night to do a good job, she did not get the recognition she expected.
She broke down and cried when she talked to her roommate: Obviously, she did her best every day, but she felt that she hadn’t done anything well. It was really hard. Is she so tired at work?
“Are you so tired at work?” While desperate to exhaustion, at the same time confused because you can’t see the hope, will you even doubt that your efforts are right? For what purpose?
If you ca n’t get the answer to the question, you will fall into the negative circle of thinking and lose your passion for work.
Should I continue with a job that has lost enthusiasm?
The “Zhilian Recruitment 2019 Workplace Person Mid-year Inventory Report” shows:
Only 29.8% of people are optimistic about the development of the workplace in the second half of the year, and the most think that development is hindered and do not have expectations, accounting for 42.8%. About one-third of the remaining Buddhist staff said they were bearish and that development would follow whatever happened.
Obviously, my busy feet stay on the ground all day, but I feel that I have nothing but exhaustion; I gradually feel that no matter how hard I try, I ca n’t reach my original goal, and I want to escape everything related to work; I ca n’t show enthusiasm in my work. I just want to touch the fish and other negative states such as follow-up. It seems that I am lost in the fog of losing my job goals and career prospects, leading to emotional exhaustion.
Emotional failure is a core feature of burnout performance and a very significant sign. Mainly manifested in the disappearance of enthusiasm for work, emotional irritability, easy to lose temper, and easy to get angry with others, appearing negative emotions such as pessimism, depression, depression, helplessness, hopelessness, depression.
01 Why do we have a burnout period?
Taking “salary” as the driving force for work
When choosing a job, the first consideration is salary. The purpose of the job is to support the family or to enjoy a better material life. However, “the skills and income have not increased” has become a life expectancy. The second biggest factor is not optimistic.
The way to increase salary in the workplace is not easy. According to the 2019 Mid-year Inventory Report of the HR recruitment, 61.8% of the workers said that the salary in the first half of the year was in place, and 17.4% of the people did not raise their salaries. It is said that more than half of white-collar workers are facing the difficulty of “increasing salary”.
TED talk “What kind of work will make you feel successful?” The American psychologist Barry Schwartz in “” said that in addition to material rewards, the work that makes people feel fulfilled is more important than intangible value, which is often overlooked by us.
Conviction is a continuous driving force for a person to continuously strive forward. Therefore, relying solely on “salary” as the driving force for work. When faced with a situation where it is difficult to raise the salary level or even be forced to reduce wages, a lack of work conviction will occur. Why the effort has not been rewarded in actuality and the confusion in the effort of not knowing why, hesitates.
I can’t feel the reward at work
My colleague Xiao Wei has always been a “workaholic” in the company, but his frequency of overtime has been significantly reduced in the recent period, and even the phenomenon of fish-fishing at work has been anomalous.
Xiao Wei said that he felt harder and harder. He used to work nervously every day. He did n’t dare to relax for a moment. However, he persisted for a long time but found that the results were very small. He didn’t get a chance to get promoted, which made him gradually lose his energy and motivation, and felt very confused.
In the face of work, it is very difficult for us to pay unconditionally without regard to any return, because the essence of work is the repeated cycle of giving and getting. Only when we always get a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction can we have the motivation to continue working hard.
However, Johnson once said: Great work is not done with strength but with patience.
Work is a battleground where strength and opportunity coexist. Capabilities are essential, but opportunities require patience.
If you keep your eyes on the present, neglecting “return” is not just for one acre and three points of land, but also forIn order to accumulate strength and wait for opportunities, falling into the strange circle of thinking of “why my pay and return in work is not always proportional” will only make the mentality more negative and immerse in the frustration of losing the sense of return.
02 How to get through the burnout period
Understand your domestic needs and strengthen your work beliefs
There is a hot topic on Zhihu, “Are you passionate about your work? What is your job for?”
One of the answers was endorsed by countless people: “90% of people have a superficial understanding of the meaning of work. They either never think about what work is for, or think that work is only to make money to support their families. They are forced to do nothing.
They always lament that the salary is not high, the life is miserable, some resent their parents for not letting them become rich second generations, some scold the boss for eating people without spitting bones, and cynical embarrassment on the way back. Therefore, 90% of the people in the society will spend their whole life in a haunting life. “
When you face the dilemma of workplace burnout, first ask yourself: what do you want?
When faced with a job, you must first understand your own domestic needs, what is your job pursuit, what is your belief, whether it is creating social value or industry achievement, whether you get a handy job, or hope to continue to challenge Yourself.
Only by seeing our own heart and needs can we help us to make a rational judgment; only by knowing what we want, can we have a clear goal of hard work and a steady stream of forward momentum.
Why do we feel fulfilled and satisfied at work? Because you can be loyal to your choice and respect your choice, you can always love your choice and get positive feedback from it.
To gain enthusiasm for work, you first need to find the belief to move forward with your career, rather than just barely reason to make money.
Adjust your work rhythm and increase your sense of accomplishment with small goals
Although people have no distant concerns, they must have near-term worries, but too far a goal will always give people a sense of distance and an unknown sense of fear, making people drift away and lack of action.
When you feel that your work is out of breath, and that patience and physical exhaustion are not enough for your workplace goals, try adjusting the pace of your work.
Divide your long-term goals into years, quarters, months, weeks, days, and even morning, midnight, and evening, refine your career plan, and stick to writing your small plan every day. Clear and easy-to-find goals make people more motivated and what to doRecording love with a pen will make people feel more missionary. This will not only allow you to have a clear time plan, but also allow you to review your daily actions and see every bit of harvest.
Positive attitudes allow people to maintain high emotions and enthusiasm. Opportunities are not the first obstacles when faced with difficulties. However, research shows that negative attitudes consume 90% of a person ’s energy and limit their potential. Play.
Frequently completing a small goal is more conducive to maintaining a positive attitude. At the same time, we can also gain a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence from the sense of accomplishment that comes from the accumulation of soil and the accumulation of water. Lay a solid foundation.
Learn to decompress the body and mind, and replenish energy in a timely manner
When we first entered the workplace, we were always enthusiastic and eager to work hard to achieve something. But over time, we always have to face more and more work pressure and changes in the workplace, which will inevitably make people feel tired and confused, and this feeling of exhausting energy is more people’s feeling than physical exertion. Powerless.
Qi said a debater Zhan Qingyun, wake up countless people: only work is lovely, life will be lovely.
If a job is always exhausted, how can we fall in love?
In his book “Efficient Resting Method”, Kuga Guliang proposed that brain fatigue is different from physical fatigue. Pure physical rest cannot completely relieve brain fatigue, and fatigue can still accumulate unknowingly.
We can try to relax the brain through cognitive action therapy-“Monkey Mind Elimination Method”: In the face of unthinkable problems, it is better to get rid of the current good and bad, think about the reasons why we have this idea, re- Consider your own deep needs.
While the brain is still cranky and unwilling to rest, let’s face our thoughts from the perspective of an onlooker, as if we were standing on a platform watching different cars with different labels filled with “thoughts” Trains, watching them go, shouting to myself “I’m fed up!”, Emptying them all out of my mind.
Work is not a process of eternal output. It requires continuous energy supply so that it will not be exhausted. Only a good rest can support efficient work and overcome fatigue.