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When We Identify With Our Job

When We Identify With Our Job

Most of us when asked ‘so what do you do?’ at a typical party conversation end up describing our job profile and the work that we do, as it makes up our main identity, and sometimes the only identity we have.

Our career takes up most of our time and energy, but only defining oneself professionally is limiting and even diminishing our self-identity.

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How To Describe Yourself Outside Of Work

Next time you are meeting a stranger or a party attendee, describe yourself with something less career-oriented, like how you spend your free time, what is it that you are really proud of, or what you do during your weekends.

This can lead to authentic and stimulating conversations, and re...

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Dangers Of Identifying Yourself With Your Job

  1. It limits you to a single identity.
  2. It gives an incomplete and shallow picture of you to others.
  3. It doesn’t leave room for connections and serendipity.
  4. It leads to burnout as we keep running the same treadmill of work and start to think we are only something becau...

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Enmeshment: One Becomes The Job

Common signs of enmeshment, when the boundaries between personal life and work are fuzzy, are:

  1. When the job is eating up all their time, with none left for hobbies or family.
  2. When the job is the only thing in the mind, and the only thing to discuss in any conversati...

We are preoccupied with our own struggles

It's easy to think that the whole world is watching your every move and listening to your every word.

That is not the case. That everyday struggle we all experience takes most of our attention, meaning we don't have time or energy to look if you made a mistake.

Feeling has a direct  relationship with our thought process.

Feeling has a direct relationship with our thought process.

4.How you feel about yourself determines the relationship you have with yourself.

  • We are always exerting and giving our energy to things that only bring us down.
  • The worst & most common way we do this is by criticizing ourselves. We give our power to unloving t...

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