Love Work Again, Overcome Work Anxiety, I hate My Job
How do you feel on Monday mornings?
•Are you raring to go, looking forward to another terrific day?
•Or do you get that pit-in-the-stomach “Oh boy, not another week at work” sinking feeling?
What happens when you get to work?
•Do you love your boss?
•Do you proudly proclaim “Yes! I’d do this even if they didn’t pay me!”
•Or are you just counting the hours?
•Or, perhaps, are you so rushed and miserable that you don’t have time to count the hours?
Work Anxiety is one of the most unpleasant, debilitating phobias of all, because for most of us ‘hating work’ means ruining the best part of every day. For some of us, the consequences are worse - missed opportunities, missed promotions, a sense of a wasted life. Does any of the following sound familiar …?
•You leave for work feeling depressed, knowing that the day stretching ahead is full of activities you don’t want to do, or people you don’t want to see, or both.
•You put things off. Rather than getting the important work done you waste time on less important stuff, knowing all the time that you’ll eventually have to face work that you really don’t want to do.
•Meetings are a real drag. You feel out of place, or embarrassed when asked to talk, or you just feel they’re a huge waste of time.
•You feel intimidated talking to your boss or ‘important’ people (who could include colleagues, customers, vendors, business partners). You don’t feel at ease and sometimes feel tongue-tied, uncomfortable or embarrassed.
•You live for the weekend. You heave a huge sigh of relief when Friday arrives, only to get that heavy, sinking feeling when every Monday morning swings inexorably round. Here we go again …
•You dread certain moments in the week. Perhaps staff meetings, or the times you have to talk to your boss, or particular activities — or perhaps just getting up in the morning knowing what’s in store.
Theories about overcoming Work Anxiety
There are, of course, many supposed ways to overcome work anxiety. Most of the advice floating around isn’t very good, because it misses the point. Here’s some of the advice you’re bound to hear – or that you may already have been given. “Just …”
•“Just get over it - you’re lucky to have a job.” The ‘grin and bear it’ philosophy is great for those who don’t have to put up with the realities of spending all day every day in a job they positively detest. And for some, the idea of changing job is in itself too frightening.
•“Just find a job you like.” At the other extreme, there are countless recruitment agencies who will tell you the only answer is to change to something better. And for some that may be an answer. But maybe you’ve tried that already. In which case, this advice might be the least helpful of all. You see, it might not be a particular job you’re ‘allergic’ to: maybe it’s work in general. Maybe you’re ‘burned out’ and the whole process of getting up, going to work and attending all those meetings has just become hateful. More on this below.
•“Just give up work.” Okay. Great. Give up and hope that something comes along. Who, exactly, is going to pay the rent in the meantime?
•“Just work from home.” This may actually be a better bet. There are some companies who will let their people telecommute. It’s worth checking with your boss. But there are still some downsides - like who’s playing politics back at the office while you’re ‘out of sight’ quietly working at home. And maybe it’s not an option in your line of work.
For some people, there really is no ‘escape’
Maybe you simply cannot leave your current job because:
•you’re involved in a family business, or
•you run your own company — or
•there simply isn’t another job on the horizon.
So let me ask a question:
Is it possible to learn to love work?
What would you say if I told you it’s possible to …
•eradicate that nasty Monday morning feeling
•enjoy the journey into work
•participate in meetings and have fun while you’re doing it
•love taking and making those phone calls – even from ‘difficult’ customers
•look forward to those meetings with the boss – even performance reviews
•savor every minute of what you do all day – wherever you do it
•speak in public confidently, lucidly, fearlessly
•overcome work anxiety permanently - with just a few days’ enjoyable mental exercises
What if you could make your work your hobby – something you’d do whether or not you were paid? It’s often said that millionaires are those who love their work so much that it doesn’t feel like work.
You’ve seen people like this. The ones who get into work early, leave late, and seem to relish every moment, every challenge, every interaction, every meeting, every phone call. No work anxiety for them - quite the opposite.
Is it possible to be one of them? Without changing your job?? You bet it is.
It’s also likely that you’ll:
•Improve your promotion prospects
•Get paid more for ‘working’ less
•Enhance every aspect of your life – at home as much as at work.
How is all this done?
The answer is that there’s a Home Study Course that’s helped thousands upon thousands of people.
It’s called Vanquish Fear & Anxiety, and you can use it to overcome any unwanted fear quickly and permanently.
I’m Rex Northen, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Senior Consulting Practitioner working with clients all over the world, and I worked closely on the production of this course with Seymour Segnit whose voice you’ll hear on the CD’s - so I can tell you in some detail exactly how and why they work.
Seymour will expertly show you, step-by-step, how to change your emotional association with work, and everything that’s part of work, like meetings, public speaking, the journey to and fro each day, interactions with your customers and colleagues.
Overcoming Work Anxiety Quickly and Permanently
Phobias are unwanted fears - the fears that don’t serve you well, or just don’t make any ‘rational’ sense.
Nobody is born with work anxiety. Nobody’s born hating the office or factory, meetings or the phone. That includes you.
Phobias are built through experiences.
If you happen to like the color pink, or the smell of sea air, or the sound of kids playing in the park, it’s because of past experiences. Your brain ‘labels’ experiences according to the way we happen to feel while we experience something.
Most of those feelings are pretty mild, so the associations we build are similarly mild. But sometimes we have an intense positive or negative experience. At work, negative moments could be the result of a really difficult customer, an unpleasant colleague or boss, or any number of other experiences.
Work anxiety could also be the result of things you heard or saw when you were a child - perhaps your parents or some friends of yours described work in horrifying terms; the seed could even have been planted by a book you read or a movie you once saw.
Just one intensely negative moment can be enough to put you off work, however much you used to enjoy it.
And therein lies the secret to enjoying work again. If you’ve learned to hate work, you can just as easily learn to love it again.
Vanquish Fear & Anxiety will show you how to overcome work anxiety by creating intentional ‘intensely positive moments.’ And to turn negative moments in future into ‘learning experiences’? That’s what the most successful businesspeople do. They don’t stress out because work is hard sometimes. They learn how to handle them better next time … and then sell their expertise to get a payrise - or a better job.
So, yes, you might end up with a better job. It might be a promotion. But when it happens, it will be your positive choice.
Vanquish Fear & Anxiety teaches a series of precise NLP mental exercises to help you change your emotional association. It’s a way of learning to enjoy things INTENTIONALLY. You decide what you want to like, and Vanquish Fear & Anxiety will show you how.
That means that you can train yourself to feel good about work. Instead of that knot in the stomach, you’ll find yourself automatically (yes, automatically) looking forward to the day.
What work can be like in future
Instead of shuddering at the thought of the next meeting, you’ll instead be focusing on how you can best communicate your ideas.
Instead of shying away from public speaking opportunities, you’ll be looking for them.
Just picture yourself a few weeks from now on your way into work.
You’re in good time, so there’s no hurry. You’re listening to your favorite music. The commute is a little sticky, but that’s OK – you’re contemplating what a great day it’s going to be.
You arrive at work, and are happy to find that you’re the most upbeat person there. You love what you do so much that the day just flies past in a whirl of productivity and good-natured interactions. You take it all in your stride now – everything that seemed boring is now fun and easy; everything that seemed hard is now a fascinating challenge.
You use your past experiences to improve your expertise. You savor the knowledge and the feeling that you really know what you’re doing - and that adds to the enjoyment of your job.
You’re prepared to do things that others don’t want to. The respect of your colleagues, your value to your company - and your paypacket - all rise quickly.
Now, when you get together with family and friends, it’s to tell them how much you enjoy what you do. On Sunday evenings, you find yourself planning out your week with pleasure. On Mondays, you get up with a spring in your step, and positively relish the opportunity to contribute to your own success and your company’s future, and to reap the growing rewards.
This isn’t only possible, it’s proven. Let me assure you that there are millions of people the world over who are grateful for their jobs and love their work. Sadly, there are millions more who don’t - people whose avoidable work anxiety makes their lives extremely unpleasant - not because their work is inherantly intolerable, but because they haven’t learned the secrets of intentional enjoyment.
Vanquish Fear and Anxiety will show you those secrets - techniques you can use to change your mind … within hours of receiving the program.
Picture yourself just days from now turning the corner, putting work anxiety into your past, learning the secrets of intentional enjoyment - all through a series of precise, intensely enjoyable mental exercises.
Author: Adrian Collin Png
June 17th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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