When your work does not fill you: psychological factors and solutions

We live in a world and system focused on materialism and consumerism, but also oriented towards work. Your work or professional development can be a source of satisfaction or, on the contrary, suppose a headache and constant frustration.

However, what are the most important areas for your professional development? They are always personal factors (your focus, emotion management, stress management, etc.). Behind the lack of professional satisfaction or vocation is a very common psychological problem in our time. The objective of this article is that you discover it and above all that you find solutions in your own personal change.

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The phenomenon of professional dissatisfaction

Why focus on your personal change? When you feel that your work does not fulfill or satisfy you, they are always external factors that you cannot control. It is true that sometimes the professional context itself is not adequate, but in the vast majority of cases the problem is in how we understand and manage situations.

In the last 10 years I have accompanied people from almost 20 different countries as a psychologist and coach (while I was traveling) in their processes of personal and professional change. The problem of professional dissatisfaction is frequent and has a very clear origin in the low tolerance to frustration. We will delve deeper into this problem and finally the solution. I also leave this entire article in a video where I explain it to you in my own words (so you choose the format that you like the most). Hit play!

A focus error

Let's look at the context first: living in a materialistic and consumerist age, there is the constant idea of ​​achieving an ideal way of life and work that is still an unrealistic way of approaching personal and professional development, where the external factor is always unpredictable.

The big mistake we make is to focus on what the profession offers you and not the different tasks that make up a profession. I'll explain it to you with a concrete example: what are the different tasks that a medical professional can approach? Some would be diagnosis, intervention, research or care for families.

A professional may enjoy one of these tasks - an empathetic and kind family doctor who makes women feel good. people but with little interest in research) or others (the typical Uranian doctor but great in his analyzes diagnostics).

In all professions there are diverse tasks, and learning to understand and manage the frustration we feel in their development is key to be able to harmonize your personal and professional life and feel personal satisfaction. Some of the most common consequences of this problem are:

1. Attachment to vocation

It occurs in people who Due to their attachment to working in a certain way, they end up losing opportunities to develop, learn from other fields and grow personally and professionally.

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2. Permanent dissatisfaction due to self-demand

No matter how much you do at your job and succeed, you always feel like it's not enough. The root problem is that you base your personal assessment on your professional results, thus leaving your well-being in the hands of external factors and neglecting your personal life

3. Feeling that they do not value you

Although this problem is real and involves a day to day (especially when working in complex and hierarchical institutions), when your well-being depends on factors that you cannot control ends up making you feel frustrated, and over time, insecurity and discouragement

All these consequences lead to professional discouragement and the reason of origin is the same: the way in which you approach your well-being and seek value and how you understand and manage your emotions (specifically, insecurity, dissatisfaction and discouragement).

The origin of the problem and the solution

The perfect job does not exist and no job or profession has been created to meet personal needs. However, living a process of change where you learn that your well-being depends on you will help you manage stress in a more functional way and be able to harmonize your personal and professional life. That (your personal growth) will be what first of all improves your professional life forever and helps you achieve better results and find more opportunities in the long term.

At certain moments in our lives, human beings want and need to undergo a process of change. If you want to take a first step, at empoderamientohumano.com you have options to take it, schedule an exploratory session with me, study your case, see what the problem is, how to solve it and how I can accompany you to get it at 100%. That your satisfaction, above all, depends on you. This is the change of approach that will give you the most satisfaction.