Shift your Frame of Mind

The Big Quit or The Great Reshuffle is taking the world by storm as more employees are leaving their jobs for greener pastures. In November 2021, LinkedIn noted a record 50% of people transitioning careers globally and the trend hasn’t slowed much in 2022 with CNBC reporting 44% are “job seekers.” But why the great unrest in job satisfaction? 

With the heavy hand of the pandemic lifting, leaving a new world in its wake, people are left struggling to cope with their new reality and are desiring a different experience in the workplace. In a global Zoom workshop on April 20th, 2022, NYT bestselling author of Designing Your New Work Life, Dave Evans, addressed the dissatisfaction with a challenge. What frame of mind are you operating in? 

 Evans presents that if you change your way of thinking, using the Design Thinking process, you can move forward to fullness of life. When a disruption happens (things will never be the same) we can respond with hope and build ideas iteratively to get closer to an answer. If we first accept the new reality, then build our way forward, we can actively make change and transform our experience. Like the Christian walk, we don’t ideate passively but walk out our faith. 

 So, before you quit, consider re-designing your work experience. That next job may not be greener on the other side, but your built-up trust and relationships at your current job gives you credibility and favor to propose a new work idea. A proposal that better fits your creative talent, uses your gifts, or fits closer to your calling. 

The key is finding more aliveness and gratefulness right where you are. Change your story by thinking differently about things. Don’t resign – re-design and give yourself a better job. Evans shared many tips, tools, and design ideas in Designing Your New Work Life as well as a new process called Disruptive Design which implements tools to design your way through disruption (like Covid-19) and thrive. Remember we are made in God’s image (Gen. 1:27) and we have the ability to design new things.