Qualified but uninspired: You can do your job, but do you want to?

Is your work zapping your passion these days?  Do you feel experienced, but bored?

I know I can do this, but do I want to?

This is the key question.  So many of us do things because that’s the road we are on.  If you are going to change things, you need to decide to get off that road.

It’s a positive choice you have to make.  If things don’t change, they’ll stay as they are.

Asking yourself “do I want to” enables a powerful mindset shift.  It moves you from the passive (business as usual) to the active (which way shall I go?).  And you’ll notice that it’s also a question.

This question works in a great many situations.

Try it on your job: I can do this job, but do I want to?

Try in on your relationship: I can stay in this relationship, but do I want to?

Try it on your body: I can be the same shape next year, but do I want to?

Humans rely a lot on automatic patterns and habits.  We start out along a way of being and we will continue along that way UNLESS something causes us to move off that path.

Sometimes it’s an external factor, like a change of management at work that causes you to see your job future in an unfavourable way that prompts you to update your CV and start looking.

But, if nothing dramatic happens it is likely that we stay on the same path, for years or decades.

This question allows us to create a checkpoint for ourselves.  To create an event forcing us to reconsider the way things are going and make decision.

It is powerful.