How to make work feel more effortless | Sneha Mandala | TEDxReno

We’ve been told that relentless hard work is the key to success, but as a result, professionals around the world are burning out. Is it even possible to build a sustainable career you feel good about? If only you could make your work feel effortless! In this talk, Sneha Mandala, an ICF Certified Professional Coach, describes the two factors that can consistently help you get into a ‘flow state’ at work, making your day feel more energizing, natural, and free-flowing - ultimately reducing burnout.

[rgs]

She just described something that I figured out just now at my 40's. This really makes all the difference. Not only for the person but for the company. At the end, productivity and satisfaction at work goes hand to hand. I believe this is one of the biggest switches we will have following psychological safety.

[AlauddinAlAmin]

1. drive your work you love
2. work style & environment
3. own your career, turn work into game

[julestempest]

I will be sharing Sneha's talk with my colleagues.

[iammatrixmike]

Right from the start I was completely drawn in on how she perfectly described the dangled carrots of career building. Just keep working harder and harder, take on more responsibility and keep on doing it every single day. In the meantime, in the name of career and driving at the wheel of success there goes another birthday, and the many events along the way. To do lists, racing through the day to get it all done, running to or racing through traffic. One day melts into years of being in the game, playing the game and then what? The person you once were drains away. This a wonderful talk about how to turn that mindset around and add purpose to living, not just working. Childlike curiosity doesn't have to be lost, though it sure does require acceptance. This age old belief of boss & employee, driven by measurable results turns data into action and matter of fact of decisions based on bottom line numbers and machines. Since Covid, and for the first time "burnout" is a new buzz word and mental health is now a recognised detractor to the bottom line. And so is the uncovering of modern slavery.

[macyduens]

"In the zone." I hadn't felt that in years and if I did it was a fleeting moment. The success train is a sales pitch and that's okay if you buy into it. The most amazing thing is when you recognise you have a choice as to how you're going to take this all in. Chasing success is a tireless commitment. Recognising success in the moments, seeing there is challenge is a process. This is not the beginning or the end, its a journey of peaks and valleys with lessons and triumphs to be contemplated and/or enjoyed. The mind is a silent achiever, it will give you as much disappoint, drama or joy that you program into it.

[slavacroates]

In my experience it doesn't matter how many times you're headhunted to somewhere else, if you're not fully engaged with your work you'll feel trapped.

[solitacroberts]

Congrats Sneha!! What a great talk. Presence, poise, and message all look effortless.

[scottzsanders]

Less than a minute in and already I can relate! Took me a very long time to figure out that we can decide what success looks like.

[ruchidj]

The core message is so grounding…made me really go inwards and reflect on some tough questions on how and why I do what I do at work, and how I can get more productive effortlessly. This talk is going to stay with me for a long time - in-fact for as long as I have a career!

[janeepstein]

What a great talk! Delivered with poise, humor, smiles, and three easy actionable steps to finding flow, effortlessness and joy in our work. Well done!

[ishathalwar]

I always wonder how much of a difference mindset and inner dialogue make. We are a species so void of compassion for others but even more so for ourselves.

[anilshiv]

That was Authentic stuff. Going with the flow means Following your PASSION and making it a PROFESSION.
People follow Careers and Jobs looking at the Salary and Perks.
People should instead follow their PASSION and Spend 10000 hours PRACTICING & PERFECTING doing what they Enjoy.
Thank you Sneha for your Wonderful Speech with a Great message.
You are also a Great Public Speaker.

[ulisseditaque]

Pretty interested to see what she has to say, we all need to work to pay bills so making it feel effortless would be a plus.

[ashwinisadineni]

Wow !!!! Sneha speech is enlightening, stimulating, …… and just amazing🥹❤️ proud to be your cousin 😇🥰

[aiankitarora]

What a phenomenal Speech! We spend most of our time at work in our lives and we should make our work life effortless, This speech is a reminder for every one of us to see our work life whether we feeling burnout, struggling, or effortless?

[jackstanger]

Attitude is everything, or so they say! Change is easier said than done. Thoughts verses action, lists verses doing, requires discipline. Mind over matter is a heck of an internal conversation, and most likely the mind is eager to deliver a conditioned or learned response. Tie in some expectations, desires to be accepted and highly avoiding anything that might attract being excluded, can fill you with debilitating fear, the kind that freezes you. Its not the thoughts that change you, its the actions wrapped around your daily mantra and what your working toward rather than staying stuck where you are. Change is not meant to be easy because if it was you'd miss the joy of seeing effortless possibility. Hold it gently with full awareness.

[kotakgmasuk]

Your effortless approach is brilliant!!

[AbdulBarikOfficialVlogfun]

Thanks for this informative content.
TEDx is my favourite Youtube channel.

[rosemerle]

Do what you love, that is the answer.

[coppersense]

Exactly right. Human beings are not lazy. We want to be connected and useful creating an abundant, needed service or product. Let the machines do the soulless repetitive work of factories. Tax the robots, and fund a UBI that will free humans up to study what they love, volunteer and work out of their gifts and strengths.