High-achieving people usually look successful on paper, but that success could be coming at a very high price. It could be that they're feeling a lot of stress, anxiety, maybe a sense that they don't belong and they're not sure why.
Do you feel like you’re exhausting yourself way too much for work that you have no time to do things you enjoy doing anymore? Is it affecting your health and your relationship with your loved ones?
Terry Boyle McDougall is an Executive & Career Coach and CEO of Terry B. McDougall Coaching. She helps high-achieving professionals remove obstacles that keep them stuck so they can enjoy more success and satisfaction in their lives and careers.
Before becoming a coach, Terry was a long-time corporate marketing executive where she led teams, developed strategies, and advised senior leaders to drive business results. She is the author of Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She is also the host of the Marketing Mambo podcast.
In this episode, Terry stresses that working harder isn’t actually the answer to achieving both professional success and personal happiness in life. Here, she shares wisdom as she discusses ways we can be more impactful at work while keeping our life happy and balanced.
What you will learn from this episode:
● Discover how important the overlap of professional success and personal happiness is.
● Understand the importance of being more strategic with how you spend your time; and
● Find out how you can have more impact at work without letting go of your life’s balance.
“When we can feel satisfied with how we're spending our time and how we're investing our gifts, we're going to have more energy not only for work but also to enjoy our lives.”
– Terry McDougall
Valuable Free Resource:
How to have more impact at work without exhausting yourself: Read the free chapter of Terry’s book available at http://terrybmcdougall.com/book/
Topics Covered:
01:47 – Challenge is expanding that overlap between professional success and personal happiness while battling with a lot of stress and anxiety.
02:56 – Continuing to do the past actions and expecting different results: the common mistake business women leaders make before working with Terry.
03:44 – Valuable free resource to help you have more impact at work without exhausting yourself: Free chapter of Terry’s book available at http://terrybmcdougall.com/book/
04:21 – One free and actionable tip you can do to have more impact with less energy required: Be more strategic about how you invest time. Sometimes, this is actually going to get you better results and leave you with more energy left over to invest in things that you enjoy doing.
05:54 – Q: Is being happy at work important? A: Absolutely! Happiness has everything to do with being effective at work. Working harder isn’t the answer.
Key Takeaways:
“When I talk about having more impact with less energy, it really is taking a look at ‘okay, what are things that I'm working on that I shouldn't be working on? Am I working on my highest value work?’” – Terry McDougall
“Sometimes, just being thoughtful and strategic about how you invest your time is going to get you better results and leave you with more energy left over to invest in things that you enjoy doing.” – Terry McDougall
“Is being happy at work important? Absolutely! Being happy at work is important. Now, what does happiness has to do with being effective at work? It has everything to do with it.” – Terry McDougall
Ways to Connect with Terry McDougall:
● Website: http://www.terrybmcdougall.com/
● LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/terrybmcdougall
● Podcast: http://www.marketingmambo.net/
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