I'm Jody Moore, and this is Better Than Happy, episode 429, when you hate your job.

This is Better Than Happy, the podcast where we study what the healthiest, most

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Hey there, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I haven't talked about this topic in this

way before. I don't know why, but I've been coaching a lot on it. I feel like lately,

seems to come up with a lot of men, although, of course, it can come up with women as well.

But I wanted to talk you through this topic of when you hate your job. And coaching is a really,

really powerful way to take a look at this and create more of what you want in your life.

No matter what your job and no matter what's going on with your particular job situation.

So the first way, or the first thing I should say that I want to encourage you to try on,

I want to just offer it to you, is that we have to shift out of blaming the job.

That is the temptation is to list all the reasons why this job is worthy of hating.

And I get it. You don't have to tell me all that. You don't have to tell me how terrible

the conditions are or how horrible your boss is or how demanding it is or any of the things that

I know you're probably pretty practiced at talking about. And I've been there, believe me.

You've probably gotten really good at this story. You've probably thought of details that make it

even more dramatic because that's what we do, right? And you're really good at talking about all

of that stuff outside of you, your co-workers. Again, whatever the situation is, you have to be

willing to stop focusing on that and willing to start focusing more internally on yourself.

Okay, now that doesn't mean that we go from blaming the job to blaming you. That's not what I'm saying.

Okay, and that's the temptation when I tell people, what if we stop looking at all the external

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