Are You Wasting a Lot of Time on the Job
Have you ever wondered if you are wasting a lot of time at work? And not being as productive as you could be? Here are five signs that you are wasting time even when you are at your workplace.
You Are too Comfortable
“ A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. “ – Charles Darwin. Time is by far one of the most important resources we have in our lifetime. Therefore, to make the most of it, one would need to overcome the desire to give in to comfort. It’s crucial to ask yourself how long it has been since you last challenged yourself. Either to learn something about your employer’s business or invested in your personal business growth. Being content is fairly okay. But it’s critical not to confuse being content in your position with not proactively seeking a better position that may requires harder work . Mediocrity is often a poisonous pattern many workers fall into for a variety of causes. It may be because you are too afraid to succeed or are scared of failure. It may also be due to laziness to take time to discover what you really want in your career and go for it.
When employees don’t confront self-doubt or apathy and deal with it productively, they stay hesitant and uncommitted. This then breeds inertia. When a worker chooses inaction, everything in their career then also remains stagnant. They lose their work connections, salary, supervisors, and co-workers’ opinions of them. And even their own health an suffer. Therefore, to avoid paying the price of too much comfort which is suffering, one has to decide to challenge themselves daily and commit to a personal growth plan.
You Have Settled for The Traditional 8 Am To 5 Pm Job
The 8 am to 5 pm job is nowadays considered traditional. This is because it is an old inefficient redundant way of surviving due to the dynamic way our world has been evolving. It is necessary to commit to this job in the short term since this will cover most of your living expenses. Moreover, this type of work can also be useful to help raise capital for investing in new active and passive alternative streams of income. Once those start to generate more stable income than your 8 am to 5 pm job generates, then you will have more reason to leave your current employment. That allows you to spend your time in the new ventures.
These new sources of income are usually flexible and provide a better work environment than the former. This too will contribute to better mental health and helping you have more time to spend on what you are truly passionate about. If your favorite time for your 8 am to 5 pm job is when it’s time to leave every day, then it’s good to start considering and investing in having a different career path for the long run.
You Are Holding on to Toxic Work Relationships
These are relationships that seldom add value to your life. Many personnel hold on to toxic relationships even though they may be seeing consistent red flags. It can be either friendship, family, or workplace relationships. All three have the potential to waste your time if not given careful thought. These usually are relationships with no vision, no positive plans, no clarity. It’s when one person uses the other to selfishly fulfill their objectives instead of looking out for the best interests of the other.
In the context of romantic relationships, one definitely will be wasting their time when they invest in this type of partner; someone who usually says, “let’s just go with the flow.” This person be it male or female is clearly showing you they have no vision at all neither do they want commitment. Rarely does this person ever actually invest in a long-term commitment.
When someone’s words and actions often don’t align, it is self-destructive and a waste of time to keep closely interacting with such workers. Rather, take time to understand your true worth and move on to relationships that are productive and healthy. Find co-workers who have career goals and try to meet their employer’s expectations.
You Do Not Know Your True Character and Purpose
This is the ultimate recipe for living a career of regret and disappointment. Everything created or made has a creator or designer. We discover who we really are and our purpose from our Maker. For example, I want to understand what an Apple phone is and how to fully utilize all its functions. Therefore I need to get accurate knowledge from the Apple manufacturers or a manual. Otherwise, l may end up just knowing how to call, send messages and maybe use one or two apps. But I wouldn’t know how to use the rest of the functions the phone has. I may even end up destroying the phone by trying to fix it the same way an android phone is fixed. Hence, to live a fulfilled life, let’s always refer back to the source of our lives for clarity and direction.
You Haven’t Had a Positive Awakening
Just what is a positive awakening or paradigm shift? It is “An important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way.” Your thoughts create your reality. Having the same thoughts every day leads to having the same choices. Unfortunately, when choices are the same, that leads to the same behaviors. Work behaviors that are consistently the same produce the same experiences. And that leaves you as a less engaged and less satisfied employee. All in all, this then creates your personality. Your personality creates your personal reality.
Therefore, for you not to re-live your undesirable past, you must create a different reality through ‘learning.’ Daily learn and practice having new thoughts, new choices, new behaviors, new experiences, and new emotions. That will certainly result in a new, improved personality. That produces a new reality. Indeed that becomes the solution to stopping the vicious cycle of wasting a lot of time.