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As a career consultant, I’m in a unique position to have a mix of professional and personal experience alongside passion and qualifications. When I meet with clients, I draw on my recruitment experience, which equips me with insight as to exactly what employers are looking for from candidates, and my corporate career background, which means I’ve personally experienced most situations my clients present me with. Therefore, I can fully relate to the impact our career has on all areas of our life and well-being. Then, of course, my post-graduate qualification in career development and coaching enables me to help people shape and navigate their work and career with clarity, confidence, and alignment with their lifestyle and well-being needs.
The fact that our career is often the biggest source of stress in our lives, with the potential to significantly impact our well-being, is what inspires me to do this work. I believe that our career should add to our lives by enabling us to live our best life, rather than constantly taking away from our lives, which unfortunately is what many people experience until they find my resources.
I worked with a client recently on this and after completing the exercise I suggested, she was able to take back nine hours a week for herself. That’s a full day’s work! When we change our mindset to view time as our most important currency, we spend it much more wisely.
For one week, keep track hourly of what you are spending your time on. Be honest, and stick to your usual routines and activities. At the end of the week, review how you currently spend your time by allocating each activity a number of hours per week. For example, perhaps currently your total time spent exercising per week is one hour, but you’d like to increase that to three hours. Maybe there is another activity that you’re spending way too many hours on (likely your screen time!), reduce that by two hours and allocate those two hours to exercising.
It’s a really simple exercise that shows that you really do have control of your own time once you become aware of how you’re spending it and how you want to spend it moving forward. It absolutely takes discipline and a little tracking at first, but after a while, it will become a non-negotiable exercise for you when you realise how incredible it is to consciously spend your most important currency in a way that empowers you to live life the way you want to experience it.