By I am sure that the reason why it is so hard to change your life is because you feel stuck. You feel like you are holding yourself back. You are not sure why you are not achieving the things you want.
I think that the reason for this is that we are so good at what we do that we don’t even notice what’s been happening. We just keep going, oblivious to the fact that things have been moving out of our control. We just keep moving forward and never give a thought to the fact that we may not be moving forward at all but that we are still moving.
When I first started out in business a few years ago, my boss asked me to quit my job and start consulting at a new company. I wasnt going to do that, it seemed so pointless, and I didnt want to give my boss a reason to fire me. I was only working 30 hours a week at the time. I asked for time off and he said that I could work up to 40 hours a week, provided I did consulting part time.
But guess what? This is the same mentality that’s at play in your daily life, whether you’re working for yourself or a corporation. You are working at the business level, and your time is being spent on a project that does not benefit the business as a whole. Businesses are not in the business of taking care of their employees.
I am fortunate to work for a company that has no employees outside of the two of us. The only employees we have are ourselves and our contractor(s). I am also fortunate to have an incredibly supportive boss who allows me to take off a little bit of time from the day job to help with the business. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated. I do. I am. I also have a long list of other things I am not very good at.
As an employee I feel like I’m responsible for everything that happens in the company. But I am not. I’m responsible for my own actions. In fact, I think that’s a big part of the reason I enjoy working for a company like michael allio. I get to choose my own actions, my own responsibilities, my own bosses. I get to give things to people and I get to have a say in the decisions that I make.
The most frustrating thing about working at michael allio is that we have a very long list of tasks that need to be completed and yet we are never actually done. Even when we get close to being done, we always end up doing more work than we had planned. To me this is a huge issue when it comes to how I feel about myself and how I deal with the fact that I am responsible for a lot of the things that happen in my job.
I don’t know if I have to tell you, but I’ve had this problem in the past. It’s not one thing, it’s just a lot of little things. Sometimes it’s when you’re dealing with people that are less than competent, and in those instances, you find it hard to maintain a work-life balance.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to have people talk me out of a project because they’re not sure if they should have done it. Ive had to make up excuses for things that went wrong. I feel like I have to do everything for myself and always have someone else doing the grunt work, even when I know it’s not really necessary.
