Items tagged with "work":

If You Can’t Be With the Job You Love, Love the Job You’re With

A recent Huffington Post story that is doing the rounds talks about the negative effect working in a job you hate has on your health. All of the effects that are listed are also symptoms of burnout. As I frequently maintain, we get burnout from doing too much or too many of the wrong things – the...

Sunday Night Blues

You’ve had a wonderful holiday. Resting, relaxing and being in the moment. No worrying about the report that is due, the presentation you need to make at the next meeting, the conversation with your hated boss/client/colleague that you have to have. No work worries at all. But, now, the party is...

Love and Work

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Way back in 1930 Freud made the observation that much of our life purpose is influenced by our ability to do meaningful work and our ability to love meaningfully. Not much has changed since then. We are still defined – rightly or wrongly–...

M is for…Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business Byron Katie says that there are three kinds of business in the world: my business, your business and G-d’s business.  She says that much of our discomfort and anxiety comes from getting out of our own business, or allowing others into our business. When we are in other...

Change What You Can

There are many things in life that we can change. The clothes we wear. The colour of our hair. The people we spend time with.  The things we spend time and money on.  The way we think about and respond to events… And then there are the many things that we cannot change. The weather.  The...