Frustrations at Work.

Well, I have not been writing in here nearly as much, mostly because I think I am the only one who logs on, but regardless, I am going to continue to write.

I wanted to mention today, something about happiness and work.

Although working is sometimes a necessary evil that we must endure every Monday through Friday and sometimes on the weekends...I would like to make a recommendation for your future frustrations at work.

1. Realize you are frustrated.
2. Calculate the hours left in your work schedule.
3. Regardless of the hours, recognize that you will have to be there the remaining time, and despite your frustration, that day will go on.
4. Step back (sometimes I do this literally) and think about if the frustration is worth it. WHY are you frustrated, and how can you relieve some of it in order to get back to working normally?
5. If all else fails, divide the remaining hours up into 1 hour segments. For each hour, come up with something positive to say as a mantra that hour. Change it every hour or 15 minutes as needed.

I often use a very simple phrase "It is going to be okay." I say this perhaps 100 times a day when things get really bad, but I always can remember that something is going to get better.

Enjoy and keep smiling....
JM

Traffic

Nice thing that happened today:

I was driving home from my job, needless to say in rush hour (or should I say rush 4 hour) traffic when I noticed an interesting thing.
Many cars were trying to converge into a several lanes, and thus there was a great deal of signaling, not signaling, cutting people off, etc...but very few cars were letting people in.

I decided, because I was stuck in traffic anyway, that I would let a car or two merge into my lane. Despite the car behind me honking, I noticed that a couple more cars that were in front of me did this as well, and so on.

Is this a GROUND-BREAKING discovery? No of course not. But it was nice and made me smile.