Find Some "Alone" Time. Work On Yourself Today.

I can’t take it anymore.

I feel like I’m the lone wolf that has to take care of everything.

There is never actually “alone” time. I’m always on call and constantly getting alerts and or emails or whatever it maybe. I am constantly awakened and miss out on my personal life because of work. 

~Worker Living in MASSACHUSETTS

If today you are in a situation where you are SO important, always on call and have lost your life by giving all of your time to your job/corporation/boss then you need to ask yourself HOW LONG you are going to continue to make someone else’s dreams come true?

HOW LONG are you going to make someone ELSE rich while today you feel like you are missing out on your life? 

HOW LONG?

 It’s up to you. Remember, you have to be smart enough to figure this out.  You’re SO important.  You’re taking care of everything at work.  You’re a Lone Wolf. Great, now do something for yourself.

Are You "Maybe" Depressed? You Pulled Out Before...You'll Do It Again...

I’m always exhausted and I think that I may be depressed.

I have no training in any career path but I know working meaningless service work is not what I want to do.

~Worker Living in Canada

How do we know if we are “technically” depressed?

Exactly how do we know we are depressed or when we are on our way to becoming depressed? 

We can research it online, but we need to know what it feels like in our own bodies. Emotions are embodied and it’s different for each of us.  We need to be able to recognize depressed emotions in order to know how to pull up out of it.

The Future - A Plan - A Better Day - Just Hold On

I feel depressed every morning when I drive to work. Sometimes I cry, often I just want to.

I don’t spend enough time with my fiancée and I haven’t even been able to make plans towards our wedding because I’m tired every day.

~Worker Living in the United Kingdom

Today, we need to take a look at our lives and our future.

What are we looking forward to? What are our plans for the future?

Now, how does our current job fit into our future? We’re just taking a look down the road at our future.

Exactly how does this current job fit into our future plans?

Look At The Hand You've Been Dealt. Now Be Creative And Play It Well.

I am bored at my job and I’m not learning anything that pertains to my degree that I am pursuing.

Since I am about to graduate I want to spend my time working on my portfolio and learning things that pertain to my career and find a new job.

~Worker Living in VIRGINIA

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Sometimes we can find ourselves in the situation where we are pursuing a degree for a particular profession, but we are currently working in a different profession.

It can be frustrating because we don’t feel like we can apply what we are learning in the classroom to the real world.

So, we have to think creatively because we might not be able to change jobs right away.  We might have to volunteer somewhere, or interview people in the profession we want to work in, or start freelancing in the new profession. We just need to move toward what we want to do…take some real action towards the goal.

Feeling Like A Failure? GREAT. Join the Club. Now S-t-a-r-t Again.

I work over 12 hour days during the work week and still work on the weekends and I am still behind.

Upper Management is now giving me attitude no matter what I tell them about the challenges and what I have done to try and overcome them.

My health is being affected and I am always finding myself sick.

No matter how much harder I try to catch up there is more workload coming at me.

~Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Today, figure out EXACTLY how much time during the week that you have to focus on YOURSELF and improving YOUR situation.

There are 168 hours in a week. Everybody only gets 168 hours each week, including YOU. 

How many of those hours can you carve out to work on yourself and do what you need to do to “let come” the future that wants to live through you?  Once you have that number…even if it is only one hour a day or a total of seven hours a week… use THOSE hours to change YOUR life.

Even if it takes you a year (7 hours x 52 weeks = 15 full days) make the best use of those hours.  

NO MORE EXCUSES…COMPLAINING…HOPING… WISHING…PRAYING…

TAKE ACTION – STARTING T-O-D-A-Y

You Only Live Once - WRONG. You Live Everday...You'll Only Die Once...

Because I dislike who I have become.  I am drained all the time and this is affecting my home life. I want to be able to spend quality time with my son without falling asleep or not being able to listen to his daily adventures while he is talking because I am trying to wind down from my work day so I can be ready for tomorrow.

I am over worked and under paid as well as unappreciated.

This job is affecting my confidence level in many areas in my life and it just isn’t worth it anymore.

~Worker Living in MICHIGAN

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Today, dedicate quality time to do something that you love or be with someone that you love. 

You have to take your  life back. 

You are in control of your time away from work.  (That means you HAVE to control your mind and what you are thinking!)Slowly, you can be there for yourself and for those that you love.

Start today to slowly find yourself again.

Chronic Job Stress Is Like A Cancer...Remove It & Live Out Your Passions

I hate it. I wake up every day mad because I have to work that job.

It’s a cancer in my life and future.

~Worker Living in OHIO

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

You can make a change.

You can remove the chronic job stress that is like a cancer in your life. 

If you have identified that your job is like a cancer in your life – you can remove it and heal yourself with work that does not cause you pain.

P.S.

After more than two years of reading and meditating on the survey entries I believe chronic job stress CJS (that’s what I call this phenomena that is happening across the globe) is like a cancer.  It is slowly killing people from the inside out.  

Thinking of it that way – like a cancer –  I am pondering:

1. what is the treatment for CJS?

2. how do we give CJS sufferers empathy or at least sympathy and understanding?

3. how do we give CJS sufferers support?

P.P.S.

I feel like I am coming full circle with this blog post. I don’t know why, but it feels like puzzle pieces are coming together. When I started this blog I had the dandelion theme, let go to let come from Theory U, the tag line (for individuals, organizations and countries) came while I was in a conscious dance class (countries??? it just kept coming back that countries would be impacted by the work I needed to do) and now all the people who are painfully employed feeling like their jobs are a cancer in their lives. Something new is being born…just waiting for this new thing to be born from all of these bits and pieces over the past few years…