Harmonious Return – Job Reset With Coach Taylor Short

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No matter where we end up in life, we will periodically need to reset. Even in our jobs. Just like the seasons, we must also adjust and change to fully live our lives before we reach our breaking points. In this conversation with Stephen Jaye, Taylor Short, founder of Harmonious Return and author of Reset Your Relationship To Your Job, sheds some light on the different manifestations of burnout and how people reevaluate their lives when change becomes necessary. She also discusses the need to slow down, step back, and look inward, as well as how to do just that. --- Listen to the podcast here Harmonious Return - Job Reset With Coach Taylor Short A major component to our lives especially in the 21st century, although I would argue it has always been a major component to the human experience, is the idea of a reset, a time when you have to re-evaluate. I feel like New Year's in its purest form is a natural built-in reset into our schedules. Every year, we take time to stop, re-evaluate and figure out what it is that we want. On the topic of reset, I bring to you my guest, Taylor Short, the founder of a wellness business as well as an author of the book, Reset Your Relationship to Your Job. Taylor, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm glad to be here. Let's start off by talking about Harmonious Return, your wellness business. It seems like you have different types of events and coaching but all around this theme of resetting. Briefly describe what the business is about, what the goal is and what your methods are. I love that you can see the overarching. We can even start with the book. The book is the catalyst and the most accessible way to work with me or understand the work that I do in the world but on a broader level of this reset. You're so right. The whole idea around this was when I came from Corporate America. Extreme burnout on the inside but on the external, feeling conflicted because I had the corporate salary and title. All of the things that I thought should make me happy but I was feeling this incongruency within myself. Through my own journey, I started to say, "What is going on here doing this reset myself?" Mind you, this was a gradual progression over a few years but in my discovery, I looked around and said, "We are moving at this pace that is unnatural. Us humans, we are nature and nothing in nature moves and expels their energy 100% of the time." I started to dive deeper into the work that I do to help people. The first step is to pause like, "Is your life working for you?" Because we get so caught up in the days turn into weeks, months and years. I would revel in some of these people that were at the end of their lives. They have lived a long life and looking back at some of the advice they gave to us that we're fortunate enough to learn from what they learned in an entire lifetime. Many of them had many regrets, "I would have paid attention to my life more. I would have done more things that I wanted to do." The reset is around that intentional pause that we don't normally do at this pace to say, "Is work working for me? Is life working for me? If it's not then what do I need to do to reset that?" To start off the story, what was this corporate job that you had? It wasn't necessarily just one. As anyone does, I think when we graduate from our undergrad studies, at least I didn't question it. You get a job, work your way up and that's what's going to create your success or happiness. Along the way, I did that. I was successful at jumping promotions to getting salaries. I had been in different industries but in the end, I was spending time in the financial services world and was successful to all my family and people on the outside like, "You've got the salary and this title. This is awesome," but inside it was like, "I am miserable. There is something significantly wrong here." I've started to look at that like, "We're pushing for more, harder and work faster.