Creating Happiness in Your Career
How can you create happiness in your career? In this episode of Your Superpowered Mind, host Kristin Maxwell welcomes guest Minda Zetlin to the show. What personal habits can you use to support your career success? How can you deal with toxic coworkers? This episode will answer all of those questions and more. If you want to learn how to balance work and life, and how to strive for success, tune in today to this episode on creating happiness in your career!Â
Kristin Maxwell:
Hello everyone, welcome to Your Superpowered Mind. I am your host, Kristin Maxwell. And in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today, I am talking to Minda Zetlin about improving your career life. And Minda is the writer for the laid-back leader column for inc.com. And after extensive research into real-world workplace issues, Minda has written a book entitled Career Self Care, Find your happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work. And I was really excited by the idea of interviewing Minda because most of us spend most of the hours of our days working and with varying degrees of happiness and success. And so there are for so many people work can be a source of pleasure and a source of pain. So what I am really hoping to talk to Minda and get started with them. When we’re struggling with difficult situations at work, what can we do to start to build a work life? That leaves you feeling a little bit better. So anyway, welcome to Your Superpowered Mind.
Minda Zetlin:
And well, thank you so much. I’m excited to be here.Â
Kristin Maxwell:
Yes, me too. And so I’m going to what superpower Did you uncover as a result of mastering your mind?
Minda Zetlin:
So I’m not sure I’d say I was mastering my mind. But the superpower that I kind of gradually uncovered over more than a decade of writing this column and thinking about this stuff, is to be easier on myself actually. And to honor the needs that I have that we all have to be human beings, as well as, you know, work is driven to work-obsessed career animals, which a lot of us also are. And interestingly, the more I learned about this stuff, because I was writing my column, the more I kind of put it into practice in my own life. And surprisingly, it was actually very beneficial for my career, and you wouldn’t think he wouldn’t think I am so sorry about it. There you go. You’re getting distracted, just like real life and real work.Â
Kristin Maxwell:
Just like real life and real work.
Minda Zetlin:
It was actually surprisingly beneficial for my career. And what I discovered was, it’s a sort of surprising, you wouldn’t think that doing things like saying, Okay, I’m going to take one day a week and do no work whatsoever, would make things better, you know, we kind of tend to think of the more we work, the harder we work. The more we’ll get done, the better we’ll get had, the more we’ll succeed, and the more we’ll accomplish, when in fact, that’s almost the opposite of true because there’s actual research that shows that for most knowledge-based jobs anyhow, working past 40 hours a week makes you less productive, not more.
And the thing that’s interesting, and that I see, you know, with my own experience, and family and friends, is that there’s a feeling sometimes that feeling powerless, that you have to work more than 40 hours a week.Â
Kristin Maxwell:
Yes, and that’s true.
Minda Zetlin:
We live in a society where that is very much expected. And certainly depending on the job that you have the industry that you’re in, and various the boss, the two have various connectors, you might be expected to work a ridiculous number of hours I’ve had those kinds of jobs. In my book, I wrote about a job that I had in the trade magazine publishing industry very early in my career. And that’s a highly competitive industry. And there is an expectation. There’s an expectation that if something’s going on, on weekends, good work weekends, people would come into the office on, people would work really late. And ultimately, that doesn’t work. So if you’re in a situation where you don’t have a choice, the first thing is to know that ultimately that doesn’t work. And then to look for ways to push back against it when you can, and obviously all jobs have crunch Times and there’s only, you know, certain moments when everybody has to all hands on deck because there’s a deadline or whatever. But that shouldn’t be every week or every month. And if it is, that’s not good for anyone.
So, so much in there to unpack. I used to be a litigation attorney. So I worked way more than 40 hours a week. And I can still remember the Saturday morning when my partner called me and said, Why aren’t you here at work?
And as I said, I’ll remember the job that I had at the trade publishing house, I called in sick one day and hadn’t planned on being sick. I mean, sometimes you could tell you’re coming down with something this time, I just woke up that morning, and I was sick. So I called in and said, I’m so sorry, I’m sick. I’m not coming to work. And the question I got was, okay, what are you going to be working on while you’re home?
Kristin Maxwell:
This is why we need your book. So before we start to unpack what can people can do, potentially if they’re in a situation like that, or you know, any other number of situations that come up at work? Where can people find information about you and your new book?Â
Minda Zetlin:
Well, the book is available for sale, at any place that you might buy a book, and a great place for people to learn more about me is my website, which is mindazetlin.com. And you can find links to buy the book to my columns in my daily texts to my newsletter and you know, basically, 10 different ways to get inside my brand if that’s what you want.
Kristin Maxwell:
Great. Thank you so much. Hang on, everybody. We will be right back and talk. To mend a little bit more about what can you do to improve your own career and work life.
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