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"A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally
well."
-- Anonymous
An estimated 20 million Americans hate their jobs but stay for the
benefits.
In fact, recent polls indicate that less than 10% of the working
public are really satisfied with their work.
"Choose a job you love and you'll
never have to work a day in your life."
-- Confucius
In today's workplace, most employees and executives are being forced
to wrestle with difficult and unexpected challenges.
In fact, dealing with the challenges of work can be a gut-wrenching
experience.
Why is it that more people have heart attacks at 9am on Monday mornings
than at any other time of the week?
Is your work environment becoming toxic to your employee's health?
"Without work, all life goes rotten.
But when work is soulless,
life stifles and dies."
- - Albert Camus
A negative work environment could lead to your employees suffering
from headaches, fatigue, and other recurrent illnesses like colds
or stomach upsets?
The emotional suffering and distress from feeling stuck and unable
to move-on can also lead to feelings of inadequacy and paralysis.
Is there a possibility in today's harsh work environments that work
can be as Kahlil Gibran wrote:
"Work is love made visible."
Is it too much to ask that our jobs be an experience that enhances
and enriches our lives, our health and our well-being?
According to the research, job stress is the single greatest health
problem for working adults.
If in fact John Maxwell is correct and,
"Life is like a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down
or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."
How can you stay sane at work in the middle of all the chaos?
"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work
and your life broadening and deepening,
if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you,
you have not found your place."
-- Orison Swett Marden
Del will share with your audience:
The 7 keys for staying sane in today's workplace
1. Take Charge of your Emotional World
2. Uncertainty will Prevail
3. Your Job is only as Big as You are, so Become a More Valuable
Asset
4. Take Care of Yourself: Balance, Strength & Flexibility
5. Leave work at the Office: Get a life!
6. Detach from the Outcome
7. Know when to Say Goodbye
Remember,
"If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you.
Work is an inanimate thing and can be made
lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it.
Your job is only as big as you are."
-- George C. Hubbs
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