Enough Is Enough

Today just bought the November issue of Men's Health. I find that the article from the editor is very motivating. So I wanna share with you all. It can also be applied to ladies... I have highlighted some in bold which I totally agree with the author's idea.

If I allowed myself the time to think negatively about the state of my life, I would invariably find myself in the realm of dissatisfaction. As we get older, there seems to be more balls in the air than our ability to juggle them. Work, finances, work, relationships and work - any (or a combination) of these have the capacity to completely overwhelm us and bring us down. And the cause for all this anxiety and misery can be zeroed in one thing: negativity.

One of the most common place to find negativity is at work. We get it thrown at our faces from all corners of our little cubicle. And at our jobs being in contact iwth negativity can cost us our careers. This is how it usually happens.

- Your immediate boss yells at you in front of colleagues about your incompetence and ignores your explanations.

- Now you are fearful of making mistakes and get jittery in everything that you do.

- You get stressed out.

- You make more mistakes as you get more freaked out and fearful. You begin to doubt yourself.

- You feel de-motivated.

- You begin to think that you are really incompetent.

- You quit the job.

Negativity in its most potent form can incapacitate anyone. And it makes us think badly about ourselves, which is the worst thing to ever happen to anyone.

In any job there will always be people who will try to bring us down, how else will they look good and showoff their superiority? It is horrible, unfortunate, and completely unavoidable.

Perhaps we need to borrow the mantra from the movie Evan, Almighty. Self-affirmation. Just like Evan, we can look at ourselves in the mirror every morning and give ourselves a kind word or motivational pep talk. Say something like this, "Enough is enough, I will not tear myself down. Enough is enough, I will not let others affect my work." A reinforced healthy self-image may very well help us to stay the course and focus on building our career.