
How A Job Change Impacts Your Well-Being
A job change can hurt your well-being. Entering a new job is a significant drain on one’s internal resources. These resources, like focus and energy, are then missed elsewhere.
A job change can hurt your well-being. Entering a new job is a significant drain on one’s internal resources. These resources, like focus and energy, are then missed elsewhere.
Starting a new job often brings a mix of excitement and anxiety. Take a proactive approach and prepare well, clarify expectations with your boss, understand how success will look like, learn fast and methodically, build relationships and alliances, build trust and credibility by going for early wins, keep calm and composed, help others through the change, and have a risk mitigation plan.
Cognitive biases mess up our view of reality and tweak it without us knowing about it. All you can do is educate yourself and then keep a watchful eye on when they pop up. You will still miss many of them, but you may catch your brain playing a trick on you every now and then, and you may fight back.
Not asking for help often leads to not offering it either. You are too busy with your stuff to be bothered to help others. You don’t build relationships, you get disconnected from others, unable to get things done effectively, and no one cares about you and your success. When you ask for help, others will get invested in your success.