Here are six top tips to feeling more liberated in your current role.
- Re-fresh your self-knowing: Re-visit your strengths, values, sources of meaning, what matters most. Self-awareness allows you to make choices aligned with your authentic self, leading to a greater sense of liberation.
- Be-friend your emotions: Emotions create momentum, keep you safe, connect you with others, make you human. Dancing with fear and confidence means befriending your emotions—knowing them by name, recognising them more quickly, listening attentively to what they tell you, learning how to respond intelligently.
- Establish your boundaries: Establish healthy boundaries in relationships and work-life balance. Knowing when to say “no” and prioritising your well-being can prevent feelings of being overwhelmed or trapped.
- Catch other people’s courage: Emotions are contagious, especially strong emotions like courage, awe, anger, fear, pride. When you experience someone else’s courage to be themselves, it can trigger your own, even if nothing else has changed.
- Practice self-compassion: Treat yourself with kindness and understanding, acknowledging that everyone makes mistakes and experiences setbacks. Avoid being overly critical of yourself.
- Become a ‘not-knower’: Not having to know everything can be very liberating. Get curious, ask good questions, listen intently, be open-minded. Invite people to share their insight, experiences, learning. Invite them to be curious too.
Includes excerpts from Dancing with fear and confidence: How to liberate yourself and your career in mid-life by Laura Walker
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