This Is A Time for Making Work

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So, you have a little time on your hands?

Maybe you’re quarantined at home (as most of us are during the unprecedented, wild spring of 2020 while the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic) and you’ve earned a few hours back from commuting and other times usually spent in an office.

Maybe you’re in between work, or appropriate work, and are wondering how to get back on your feet.

Maybe you’re employed but bored or anxious for the next thing.

Let’s use the time well.

Often, I start clients who are in pursuit of meaningful work with a flexible working equation.

I say:

“Start by thinking of the time you have available to devote to career development in three segments.

The first segment should be spent intelligently applying for appropriate work. (more on this another time)

The second segment should be spent networking intelligently. (more on this another time, too)

The third segment should be spent MAKING WORK. “

Over time, this equation will bend and flex in service of the individual, their search and their results. We might spend more time in one segment in a given week, and less the following week. Still I think the last piece — making work — fits in everyone’s equation.

The concept of Making Work comes from years of researching and coaching people in need of better work. What I found, and what I find, is that the ability to direct and create one’s own work accelerates the experience of ‘career renewal’, which I define as the state where we:

Making Work takes many forms. For some of us, it’s pure creation, for others it’s an independent professional project that we exchange for revenue, or it’s a personal project that’s intended to clarify our thinking and advance our own learning.

You can use the time that circumstances have offered (or might I suggest you even MAKE time) for this. Here are few forms I’ve seen Making Work take:

Making work doesn’t have to public, and it doesn’t have to be brilliant.

It has to exercise the part of you that creates. You can put that part of you back to work with or without the ‘ideal’ job. Give it a try, let me know how it goes.

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Helping people do their greatest work in the world. Create a better relationship with how you spend most of the day. www.naylabahri.com

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Nayla Bahri

Helping people do their greatest work in the world. Create a better relationship with how you spend most of the day. www.naylabahri.com