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Do you know that nagging sensation when you feel you are not up to the job?
Maybe you have changed jobs recently and you feel like you shouldn't be there because you don't know anything...
Or that feeling of becoming part of the furniture of the place you have worked in for a long time, and that you could do your job with your eyes closed while catching up on Love is Blind (pun intended)?
These are symptoms that your skill level is not commensurate to the challenge you have been given.
Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (it took me a year to learn how to pronounce his name. Google sorted it in the end) was known as "the father of flow".
For most of his career, he studied what it means to find flow in the activities we carry out.
Flow is that mental state of complete absorption when you forget the time and sometimes the space you are in and really enjoy the process of carrying out a task.
Csikszentmihalyi argued that when your task poses a high challenge that is proportionate to your skill level, it's enjoyable and the results are powerful (see the drawing below).
Spending regular time in a state of flow makes you happier and healthier in the long run.
So my question for you is:
How can you take yourself from either a bored or stressed state to a state of flow?
What do you have to change in your life to make that happen?
If you find it tricky, consider hiring a coach.
Oh, I happen to be one 😬
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