Are you trading your hours for dollars and feel that you are getting nowhere fast? 

Do you even like what it is that you do that pay the bills? I’ve asked a lot of people over the last few months if they like what they do and I can count on one hand how many of them like, not love mind you, but like the jobs they are currently employed to do.

This led me to ask them “Why do you spend your precious time working a job you don’t like?” This is some of their responses:

• Better the devil you know
• I’ve done this all my life
• No idea if I could do anything else
• I don’t have far to travel
• I could walk to work if I wanted to
• It pays good money
• I can’t afford a drop in wage
• I don’t have any other skills
• I’m too old to learn new things
• I’m due for retirement soon
• l’m too close to long service
• I don’t want to start at the bottom
• It’s taken me a long time to get to where I am

Do these excuses sound familiar….? I must admit I stayed in a previous job because of one of these excuses, but it didn’t take long before I realised that by doing so was detrimental to my health and happiness. 

Let’s look for a moment at the negative side of staying stuck in a dead end job that you don’t like.  Over time you may start to notice the following:

• bullying
• depression
• lack of self esteem
• lack of work ethics
• lack of co-operation
• lack of self confidence
• lack of pride in your work
• Increased alcohol and/or drug use
• Increased arguments with partner and peers

There are lots more but do you see that by being unhappy in where you work or what you do, that over time it will have a detrimental effect on your health.

By spending a few hours a week you could invest in learning new skills that would then give you the opportunity to choose another line of work or lifestyle.  At the very least you will become aware that there is another option. 

I appreciate that there are generally two types of people:

The people that do. These positive people want to improve themselves and their lifestyle they will have an open mind and will see the possibilities of learning new skills. Most of these people will follow through once they have learned these new skills.

The people that don’t. These people are generally negative and have a limited view of life.  They are the people who will set about to prove you right, you know who I mean, the people who say things like:

• You can’t do that
• That won’t work
• You will never amount to anything

These people are happy to experience life as they know it and that is ok, but don’t let them bring you down.

If you get nothing else out of this, please just accept that there is always a choice, another option, another way of doing things.  Life is never meant to be simple, but it doesn’t have to be hard.

Vicki Williams

Your Destiny Unfolds

As I sit here in my office at 5.30am I know that winter is on its way, why? because I have had to find a cardigan and dust off the control to turn on the heater and I don’t think I will be eating my breakfast outside this morning BURR!! They are advertising a quick getaway to grab one last burst of sun in the Whitsundays, very tempting!

I happened to catch an interesting conversation on Sunrise  about the best places to work which got me thinking about all the places I have previously worked and it’s funny, when you think of your workplace in that context, what thoughts do you conjure?  It took me back in time and I was flooded with some wonderful memories, mainly people that I haven’t thought about in ages.  On a personal note I have loved every place that I have ever worked (what I can remember), although there were times or things I did that I didn’t particularly like, but overall I have no complaints.

I firmly believe that you choose and create your own working environment.  Most businesses today are doing what they can to provide their employees with an environment that is safe, bright, happy, friendly and fun.  You only have to look at Google to see how this can work.  If you want to view a working environment that provides everything an employee could ever imagine check this out  and see how the other half works.

But seriously, what is it that makes YOU want to go to work?  Find out more…….

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