Spring Goal – New Job

Hi coaches
I am thinking about my next seasonal goal and would like some coaching on it.
So a big life change has happened last week. I started a new job after a couple years of not working and a period of burnout and depression.
I want to set up myself as best as possible for the next three months of starting and working in this new full time job.
My word of the year is Release, which reminds me to release a lot of my “baggage” like expectations, worry, need for control.
This is hard for me and after the first week of work my brain has come up with plenty things;
Worry I won’t be able to do it. Adrenalin pumping thoughts really fast. Trying to control the speed of learning. Already pushing out ideas and suggestions. Worrying that I will immediately run into a burnout again.
When it comes to a goal for the spring season I initially thought about honing in on:
“Have less expectations on myself”, however that feels quite hard and I often have the tendency to only call out when I did have high expectations and it feels like setting myself up to fail.

I then thought it could be something like:
“Enjoy working a job again”
So this feels lighter and points my thoughts towards something positive.

I can tell that my brain wants to tell me that I need to also be more careful and more organised and better prepared to not make the same mistakes as in the previous jobs and that the above goal might not be “enough”. Maybe it is more helpful to have something more consoling and comforting because being in a work place again also brings back a lot the bad experiences and feelings i had in the last job.

I am looking forward to your coaching

 

Answer:

It sounds like you’re approaching this with a healthy dose of self-awareness. Go you!

When it comes to the goal of enjoy working a job again, what does that mean to you? Tell us some about what it would feel like, what you might see yourself doing or feeling, and how you might know that you’re on track. Similarly, what are some of the tell tale signs of not enjoying your job that you might need to watch out for?