This Wednesday, at 7pm UK Time, I’m hosting a free online workshop for the London-based Social Wellness Club ("SWC").

The SWC is a merry band of men & women who come together to support and inspire each other to feel their best selves.

I’ve been invited to run a workshop for their Career Pivot group.

The workshop I've decided to run?

How to Change Your Career without Changing Your Career

I know a title like this might get the literati scratching their pointy chins.

But it speaks directly to a quote from none less than the Father of Motivation himself, Wayne Dyer.

A quote which neatly summarises how I could quit my banking job in a fit of stress, exhaustion & burn out and then go back to the exact same job a couple of years later and find balance, fun & flow.

By the way – when I say the “exact same job”, I really do mean that. When I re-packed my bag and trotted into the same office a stone’s throw from St Paul’s Cathedral, my boss, my projects, my targets and my meetings were all the same as before.

Most of my colleagues were the same too.

Even the same office printer was jamming with the same unfailing commitment.

But I digress.

Here's Wayne’s quote:

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

Just replace “things” with “your career” and re-jiggle the words and you’ll see where I’m going with this.

We often think we need to change our situation to change how we feel.

That’s how I felt about my job.

But someone can spend months researching new job opportunities, pondering a change of career, discovering their “values”, figuring out what kind of people they enjoy working with, taking an inventory of their skills, tapping into their sense of purpose and deciding their preferred level of responsibility…

Then re-train for two years….

Then make a big, bold career change…

And a few months later they’ll likely discover that all their frustrations, niggles & bugbears haven’t gone anywhere.

The reason for that?

As Confucius is rumoured to have said:

Wherever you go, there you are

See, it’s not your job which causes your experience of your job.  

It’s the way you look at your job. 

Said another way: 

We cast our feelings onto work rather than work casting feelings onto us.

Wednesday’s workshop will explore this very idea. The workshop aims to answer the question “how can we reignite our motivation and find fulfilment at work without changing our career?”

I’m aiming to make the workshop fun, practical and hands-on.

Sure, I’ll be doing some talking. But I’ll also be asking you to consider some questions so you leave the workshop with next steps tailored just for you. 

If you’d like to join the workshop, you can grab your free spot using this Google Form

I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

p.s. as I said at the top of this email, I’ve been invited to run this workshop by London’s Social Wellness Club.

I’m opening up the workshop to readers of my newsletter too (the more the merrier).

But don’t be surprised if you see some SWC branding when you click the link…