When Your Work & Worth are Misaligned: How to Reevaluate & Reconfigure

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In a perfect world, our jobs will move and progress along with us. In reality, when we grow as people, it’s natural to realize that the job has not kept up.

When your job feels like it’s out of alignment with your priorities and your values, there are many options to course correct. We owe it to ourselves to advocate for change on our behalf.

How do we check in with ourselves and uncover misalignment between our lives and careers? Why do we need to make sure our priorities match what we do day in and day out?

In this episode, I talk about the importance of making your job line up with you, and what to do when it doesn’t.

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

The power of growthWhy do periods of growth force us to reevaluate our priorities, and what can we learn from it?

Why you need to check in with yourself regularlyHow do you uncover a misalignment between your career and your life before it becomes catastrophic?

How to respond to misalignmentIf your job and life are misaligned, can you salvage the situation or do you need to plot your exit?