Stressed??? Do we ever REALLY wonder why?

So how many people do you know that when you ask the question: so how do you like your new job? or how's work going? say to you: oh it's ok! or oh you know...work is work!

Sorry but newsflash: No it's not just work! We spend 40 hours a week at our jobs and almost all of us are miserable. I don't know about you guys but something is definitely wrong here! Do we not hear alarm bells ringing in this situation?

Now I know that there are many reasons why people put up with being unhappy at work but there is no reason that is more important than your happiness.

The sad thing is, is that we as a society have been conditioned to put your unhappiness aside because of "fear". Whether we stay at a position that makes us more money to put the kids through school or to pay off our debts, most of us are unhappy because "fear of failing" in some way, shape or form is holding us back. So we have settled! Settled to be unhappy because of fear!

We also have been conditioned as an instant gratification society; we get what we want now! or I work really hard so I deserve that! Don't we see that the huge marketing companies and the banks have conditioned us to spend, spend, spend.

"That's ok, I will go and buy all these clothes and shoes and my husband will buy the bigger and better tv and we will move into a bigger and better house and we will be happy with all this material wealth".

People, we have to wake up and smell the coffee! Material wealth will never make us happy. Granted, we will be happy for a little while after we purchase something new, however, when the excitement wears off, we are back to where we started paying more and more bills, working pay cheque to pay cheque and worse of all: being unhappy.

This vicious cycle of unhappiness is in your power to stop it! Start enjoying your life now!

I work for a financial company which we also do group benefits for major corporations. The number one drug that is prescribed to people today is antidepressants and the number one reason people take time off of work is, you guessed it...stress.

So please next time you wake up for work on a Monday morning and say: I don't feel like going to work today! Start listening to your feelings,rethink and ask yourself: Is this really all worth it?

"A useless life is an early death" - Goethe

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful" - HH the Dalai Lama


Remember: Happiness is the source of life!

You possess all the power to be what you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve.

Please feel free to contact me via email :)

Helen Hons. BA
Certified Coach Practitioner
Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming
helenraptis@gmail.com