BORED at Work??? Challenge Yourself.

BORED at Work??? Challenge Yourself.

 

 

In case you are spending most of your days clock-watching & have started to feel like you’re stagnating, and you’re doing just the bare minimum, don’t fall into the black hole of boredom! The best way to stay on your toes is to make a conscious effort by pumping again.

When you’re emotionally invested and actually identify with your work, you’ll find yourself naturally more engaged and happier—which leads to more success. You can see where this is going. It’ll become a self-perpetuating cycle of engagement, success and happiness at work! Check out how:

1. Change Your Mindset: Work as if You Own the Company

“Challenge yourself by working as if the company is your own,”

When you’re working for yourself, work for yourself and you will be much more effective and definitely not bored.

2. Automate the Boring Tasks

If you're busy doing something that's very repetitive, explore options for automating that task. Constantly question if something could be done easier, better, or cheaper. For instance, use of MS Excel, can make your reports and number related work simpler. Work smarter, not harder!

3. Get Involved With Other Teams

Getting into conversations & networking within the company is an easy task.

Chat about what other folks are working on and challenge yourself to add value to their team with your unique skills.

Even if the suggestion is for another department and they reject the idea due to resource constraints, offer to help them implement your suggestion. Coming up with new ideas is okay, but it’s when an individual helps to get that idea implemented that they become challenged and excited.

4. Turn your job into a game

You can do that by setting timer & creating a realistic goal for your task at hand. If you are able to hit that goal within the time frame, reward yourself with a piece of candy, a soda break, or quick peek on FacebookJ. Or anything that motivates you within few minutes.

5. Learn a New Skill

Quickly finish the task at hand & then go help someone in another department if they promise to teach you about what they do. It is never late to learn a new skill.

6. Create Tough Soft Deadlines and Goals for Yourself

Maybe you’re bored because you’re not realizing your potential. If your goals right now are easy and breezy, create your own goals!

Sometimes you will find managers don’t have the time or inclination to tailor goals to you as individual goals that challenge and motivate you. So, the best way to challenge oneself is to set own goals.

7. “Done is Better than Perfect”

Another reason boredom strikes is when you’re too afraid to fail. If you haven’t started yet because you’re waiting for the perfect time and the perfect idea, you’ll naturally become too overwhelmed to start.

So, a great way to break out of this bad habit is to work with the mantra “done is better than perfect.” Even if you make mistakes along the way, you’ll have grown a lot higher than if you succumbed to your boredom!

Staying engaged and fending off boredom can help you in so many ways that it’s silly not to at least try. Your career happiness will benefit for both the short and long term when you make the decision to proactively end the cycle of boredom.