Most of us are. While many of us are still in recession-mode, many of us also want to move on and make the best of 2010!
Many may have made a resolution to start fresh and join the local gym, others may still have it on their calendar without any set up date.
Many may have gone through downsizing, mergers or bankruptcies and, in the end, we all strive to make this year the healthiest and wealthiest ever.
What are the most 7 common challenges most people face to maximize their health and wealth?
1. “I want to be healthy but it’s hard to start and maintain my plan, I’m too busy:”
Indeed, most people start with high expectations (i.e.: lose five pounds in one week, run on the treadmill for one hour, start meditating half an hour every week or cut work hours)
to then realize their targets are way too high. What happens next? Many people give up altogether.
2. “I have tons of work and I’m the only person who can do this:”
While we perceive a powerful position as being indispensable, this is one of the most common reasons for feeling overwhelmed with an amazing amount of work to do.
3. “I need to make $1,000.000 over the next three months to meet my target by the end of the year:”
It’s excellent to be guided by a specific, targeted goal and yet, if you have not made $500,000 in the last quarter, what makes you think you will be able to double that amount?
4. “I will only overwork for the next month and I will then go back to normal:”
While temporary decisions may be excellent strategies to boost a specific project, we tend to accommodate to doing more without going back to the previous state.
5. “I would love my work only if I could work alone, working with others stresses me out!”
Whether it’s a boss, a colleague, a client or an employee, people-stress may push us to the edge. . .
6. “My work life is perfect, I want to work more… My relationship with my wife and kids? Fine… Well, my wife is busy with her life and the kids don’t speak to me unless they want something. . .”
Most people feel the most important reason for their hard work is being able to provide for their loved ones and yet, many busy executives and entrepreneurs feel
distanced from their driving source of energy.
7. “I know I am gaining weight, my blood pressure is higher and my ulcer is acting out. I’m taking more medications and I can’t change anything in my lifestyle, this is the way it is:”
Most people who are already experiencing stress-related medical conditions minimize the impact their work-style has to do with their current issues until it’s too late. . .
Join me in this educational and entertaining seminar at our Miami offices where we’ll discuss all your interests about staying healthy while becoming wealthy.
These are some topics we’ll discuss:
Effective strategies to lead under pressure
Tips to manage work in life
Winning ways to deal with conflict and manage difficult people at work
Proven ways to manage your physical and emotional stress
Strategies to maximize your performance and productivity while staying healthy and well
1.Get organized to bounce back as soon as possible: Most of those who were laid off did not have any retraining or company-sponsored smooth transition. Although you may expect this from your employer, this is ultimately your responsibility. Update your résumé, write a list of all your best skills, write down each and every work-related positive experience or “win” that you have had and, once prepared, start searching for other positions where you could incorporate transferable skills from your previous job into a new job opportunity. Even if you had years of experience in one industry, keep an open mind and search in other industries.
2.Talk with your spouse: you are in this together: remember, together in good and bad times? Address your own concerns and acknowledge the fact that this is, indeed, a very stressful time for you and for your family: you cannot do this alone. Brainstorm about immediate ideas or possibilities about improving your situation and think of other possibilities that may be helpful in the long-term. Assess your financial situation. Make sure that you are not spending in some areas where you could cut down your expenses and look at additional ways in which you can increase your income.
3.Talk to your kids: our kids have been brought up in greater affluence than we were raised. Tell them you are in a tough situation and discuss ways in which everyone can contribute to improve the challenges even with the little things. May be they can help by taking on additional chores, may be they can help with their brothers and sisters, may be they can help with each other’s homework and so on.
4.Socialize with others: one of the biggest challenges is people tend to isolate from family, friends or other business colleagues out of feeling down, unsuccessful or just embarrassed. Acknowledge these feelings but avoid dwelling on them: whatever is lost is lost and the faster you can move on the more resilient you will become.
5.Stay healthy: smoking, drinking, using drugs, eating junk food or avoiding exercise won’t help you in any way. Use my Managing Work in Life® with LOVE formula to increase your resilience as you move on into your next opportunities.
With busy week schedules, many try to maximize their recreation time on a daily and weekend basis rather than formally taking time off.
Interestingly, generation Y seems to be slightly more worried than generation X about whether or not they will still have a job when they come back as per this study.
Younger employees and women employees may also tend to make their vacation plans while at work…
Thoughts?
There are many cultural differences around taking time off. For example, it is very unusual for employees to take more than one week off in the US. In other countries it is not unusual to take vacation for several weeks. Except if you are the boss…
Just as an example, if you feel swamped with the blessings and curses that instant technology brings to you, what about their situation? They have been born in the technology boom.
In addition, there are great disparities in the world of these children: those born into homes where they are well-taken care of and those who have experienced and lived atrocities that no adult or child should ever experience.
The stress children experience nowadays may be different to the stress kids exerienced thirty, fifty or one hundred years ago.
Back then, we would have been asked to snap out of it.
This new generation is more knowledgeable and accepting of mental health problems, medical issues and societal issues. On the other end, many worry about this generation’s work ethics, resilience and openness.
The taboo of suicide prevails. People avoid what is hard to understand and try to make sense of what may have little sense when people feel cornered, embarrassed and frustrated to the point of no return.
As stress increases during times of recession, so does the potential for violence toward others or self.
The recession has now grown its spreading roots. Those who didn’t think it was going to hit them have sadly come to terms: the recession is here to stay. Thousands of people have been laid off and thousands wonder if their current job will still exist. Either way, all of us have a family member, a friend or a client in this situation. Listen to this posting as a podcast/MP3: Balance Work in Life with LOVE
In an ideal world, we would spend eight hours of our day at work, another eight in recreational activities and the last eight hours asleep. The true question is how many of us live in the ideal world? Click here download as podcast/MP3: Maximize Health & Wealth
With the current state of our economy, we all need to re-organize our plans and strategies to focus on realistic expectations for success, especially when it comes to work-life balance for the coming New Year. Watch this interview as l talk to viewers about how to create a winning plan to achieve business and personal goals to be the best that you can be.
