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You are in pursuit of happiness and so is everyone around. You have cracked your dream job or might be trying for it, to find a part of your ‘happy life,’ others might be in the process. The real goal is to be content and happy. When things don’t work your way, or according to your expectations, or when things aren’t ‘fair’ disappointment creeps in making way for discontentment, sadness, depression, anxiety, and stress leading to emotional disturbance and related issues that can jeopardize everything that you have created so far.
The Baseline
You must keep enhancing your knowledge and take every day as a new day, without the baggage of past success or failure. Often, we are too satisfied and content with our success and tend to slow down, don’t feel the need to improvise and that’s exactly how to head towards career decline. So, you must check your regular activities and progress – what you did today. If you aren’t satisfied with your day’s performance, improve it tomorrow and if you did well today, try to do better tomorrow without pushing yourself too hard. The trick is to moderate, stay humble, and be disciplined.
Blame Stress; It Emerges from Disappointment
Prolonged stress is a silent killer. Unchecked stress often manifests as cognitive illness, difficulty in remembering, depression, alcoholism, chain-smoking, and addictions as a means of quick escape. Addiction gives you a false impression of relief but since it’s quick we tend to prefer it. The National Institute of Mental Health mentioned on its website that, substance use can lead to changes in the structure of one’s brain and its functioning. It’s a critical condition due to which individuals may develop mental disorders like depression, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) personality disorder, bipolarity, and even schizophrenia.
Dealing With Stress at Its Origin
Failures and disappointments are the other side of a coin; so be prepared for them and know the tables will turn. When preparing for the next career upgrade, you must also grow your acceptance and flexibility with failures, identify areas to improve and bounce back as soon as possible with more effectiveness. Apart from these here are a few more things that you would need for creating a balance and ensuring good mental health and wellness.
A Support Group
Self-talk helps, however a group of friends or colleagues or any support group can be an ideal support system. You need someone to talk to when things don’t go right, your confidence dips down, or you are clueless about anything at any point in time. A support group reassures you, helps to reinstall confidence, dilutes stress, and replaces it with self-confidence and encouragement.
Enough Time for Yourself
Lack of proper rest, disappointment for not being able to do what you like to, take care of yourself and overwhelming work often leads to stress. Unchecked and unattended stress creates self-doubt, loss of edginess and brilliance. That’s why you must make time for yourself. Spend time doing what you love to do, or doing nothing at all.
Good Food
Contrary to popular belief, binge eating can affect your energy levels, may cause indigestion, and affect your skin, and your mood as well. Instead, balanced meals can make you feel lighter and happier. So, when you feel down, try to grab a nice bowl of salad or a nutritious meal to alleviate stress before it gets the best of you.
Time to Read
Books are a perennial source of inspiration and mood booster. You can have a thousand self-help books, biographies, fiction, and non-fiction to feed your mind. Unless you struggle to focus on reading, you will find joy and unexpected findings that fill you up with amazement, inspiration, and zest for life that you find stressing over things too useless to waste your time on.
Regular workouts
Exercising boosts your dopamine and makes you feel content and happy. These are great stress-busters and keep you fit. A fit body helps you to have a happy mind and keeps you positively inspired and solution-oriented. Thus, there is no space for stress.
Journaling
When worry creeps in, you better put it down on paper; write what’s bothering you, what you can do to get through the situation, one of two actionable plans, and then start implementing them. This is called brain dumping and has been an effective method for releasing stress and finding workable solutions to all kinds of problems.
Mediation
A calm mind can see through things instead of getting caught in the tides of trouble. So, make it a point to practice meditation; it could be for 10 to 15 minutes or an hour, depending on person to person. Take a closer look at the lives of successful and renowned people, most of them meditate. Meditate to become self-aware, informed, and confident. Once you gain control over your mind, you won’t get stressed or at least get affected by it. It’s the ultimate elixir against stress.