Have you noticed….?
It’s one thing to be uncomfortable in social settings, quite another to be uncomfortable at work. In most instances, we are choosing our social settings—where we want to be and with whom. While at work, where colleagues, bosses, customers, clients, and all other related workers are there without any input from us, our choice to interact or not is, for the most part, severely curtailed.
You might dislike your boss or your coworker or your client, but rarely is there an opportunity to do something about it.
Or at least that’s how it usually feels.
- What if there was a way to feel less out of place, less uncomfortable, and less frustrated when you’re at work?
- What if there was a way to feel more confident, more together, and more at ease when you’re at work?
- Would you jump on it?
I would. And I would have so many years ago when I spent my days in corporate America facilitating human resource classes for a large insurance company…and feeling the pain.
Why Can’t I Be Myself Around Others at Work?
What I didn’t know what that I was feeling all that pain because I was feeling all the feels—the feels related to being that highly sensitive person going around picking up what everyone else was putting down like a vacuum cleaner, only a spongy psychic one. Picking up every single crumb, scrap, and speck of energetic detritus landing in my vicinity.
I didn’t know that the way I was—all the crying, sadness, empathy, compassion, fear, overwhelm, and anxiety was something other than my own cross to carry. And believe me, my cross was big, heavy, and all mine to bear.
Or so I thought.
Cut to the present. It’s many years later (don’t ask). It’s taken career paths, marriage, divorce, remarriage, death of my spouse, and to learn the true nature of who I am and how shifting my perspective could change my life.
The 3 Best Tips Ever to Be Yourself at Work
- Recognize that you bring yourself with you wherever you go. If the self you’re carrying around is comfortable in itself, it will remain that way wherever you are.
- Understand that feeling what everyone else is feeling is a sure sign that you are an HSP, a Highly Sensitive Person. This means you have access to tools other people don’t!
- Focus on the fact that your own version of Intuitive Logic is the way to glide through your work days unscathed. USE your tools, don’t diminish them. The key is learning how to use them effectively.
While I no longer work in the corporate world, and haven’t for many years (preferring to do laundry in between writing and seeing clients), it’s the tools in the Intuitive Logic Toolbox that save me in any setting.
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