Hard Working Life

Enclose you ever wondered why you work so hard? Why getting the next promotion, the biggest plus or the highest praise is so important to your sense of accomplishment? Why you wake up every day determined to work harder to be better than you were the day ahead of? Why the incessant drive for more and more success both energizes and exhausts yo
It doesn't take years of analysis to conclude that all of our current behaviors started when we were kids. We were born innocent, free of expectation, with our only concerns being ease and love. But then, just a few short years later, we are being taught what right vs. wide of the mark and good vs. bad is from our parents and family who surround us. Our school living introduce success vs. failure, in the form of intellectual rankings and social grouping. By the time we hit adulthood and our first professional job, we have received our vital programming: the harder you work, the better you will be, the more people will like you, and the added material success you will have.
go through society's standards. How much money you earn, where you live, how many children you have -- I'm beat even writing about society's high standards for success! But we continue it up, we work harder, we strive to be the best, to have the best and to present the best. Most of us do find some happiness in this continual uphill climb -- until the day when we ask ourselves, "Why do I work so hard? And the answer doesn't make us happy anymore.
It's not easy. Living and years of mind programming, from our parents to our teachers to our boss through to the constant stream of media that surrounds us. It's exhausting really. We don't make out how to relax because relaxation is viewed as being something you only do on leave (and yet we rarely fully relax, even on vacation). Relaxing during the day is painstaking lazy by some of our standards. Why do you think you multitask reading a magazine/book/email while watching TV? Because just sitting there letting ourselves slow down is not working hard enough.
We don't know how to pronounce no, because saying no is not nice. We don't know how to enjoy what we have as there is always something better around the corner. We don't know how to stop and take stock of what we really want to have and feel because we are terrified to think or be different. We feel unsafe, scared and guilty; so we just do what we know is "right," and work harder.
But what if we be to work harder at being truly happy? What if we could take all of what we have cultured in our lives so far, and apply our overachieving, perfectionist, and Type-A personalities to the pursuit of happiness? What if we defined our true happiness as our ultimate victory? Well, all of a sudden, working hard isn't so hard anymore. In reality, it's quite enjoyable!
Working rigid is good for you when you know what you are working for. Working hard reaps the utmost rewards when you are enhancing your life and the life of those around you. Years of chasing the life of a unbeaten corporate executive was extremely hard work, until I started chasing my success as a life coach. Nothing is more exhausting that expenses your days trying to facilitate others find their best lives, but its exhaustion met with happiness at the end of my day. A far cry from my stress migraine of the olden days. Do I ever think that the hard work of my infancy, schooling and professional years would lead to this? Nope. Not for a minute. It took a bit of reprogramming, a splash of faith and an on the whole desire to define my success and my hard work, in my terms.
We work hard because we strive for success. When we understand what success really means for us as individuals, and not how we were influenced by others, we can let go of hard work being a life defining feelings, and cuddle the freedom to work just as hard as we want to.