Here’s my positive take on my workplace and work life. This was going to be much more aggressive rant that I was actually going to post at work here since morale is at an all-time low and everyone just wants to whine, complain and bring everyone else down. It’s getting frustrating but instead after my wife’s encouragement and better judgement I’ve just been gently reminding everyone of this one on one.
The way I see work, and pretty much every other situation in life is that, it is what you make it. We all control our own environments and happiness. It is a choice we get to make. When I was a kid and my dad would drag me places I didn’t want to go, he always reiterated this message, if you choose to be miserable when we get there, then you will be, but if you decide you are going to have fun and make the best of the situation then it will be. It took a while but I eventually learned this from a young age and it’s really helped shape my life and my positive attitude.
At some point someone encouraged me to read “The Secret” and the whole secret was pretty much this same damn thing. Send positivity out to the world and that’s what you’ll get back. She went and bit deeper and made it sound like magic energy and stuff but to me it’s not magic or voodoo we get to decide how we perceive, interpret and react to events all around us.
There are people in terrible worse situations then us, than still thrive and enjoy life and are happy despite it all.
This is the same for work and if it’s really that bad and you can’t find a way to make the most of it, then you need to make a change. I’m a nurse and every week there are at least 5 posting for other jobs in the hospital and who knows how many in the community. So if you can’t find a way to stay positive and make the most of your job then change it. I feel you have these two options and you need to decide one and commit to the path to make the most of your life.
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A meme someone posted at work after a recent management crackdown!
I can’t understand why people choose to come to work daily and be miserable and negative. I can appreciate some days we work too damn hard, and often we don’t always have the resources, supplies and support we need. Somedays management enforces petty rules and isn’t always nice or fair, but that’s life. In the current economic climate with health care budgets stretched thin we are constantly trying to do more with less. I’m sure in the private sector it’s the same thing with people trying to make larger profits. That’s just the way it is, and by all means get political and try to change this, but it’s not good for anyone to be negative.
Here’s hoping I can keep spreading the word around work and I do know there are a lot of people feeling that same way I do about staying positive, so maybe we just all need to get together and have one big care bear stare!
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It's definitely hard to be positive especially in a toxic work environment. I've spent seven 55 hour weeks in a row at my work place and the managment's pie in the sky / unicorns and rainbows fantasies vs the way things actually happen creates a lot of resentment and negativity in my work place. There's also the fact that the majority of the engineers and support staff have all these little cliques like we're all still in middle school (most of them are 8-12 years younger than me), people are excluded and outcast for virtually no reason, etc.
So yeah I get how easy it is to feed into that negativity. I'm guilty of it myself. I have a hard time being positive when I'm burnt out, cynical, and wondering who the next person will be to put a knife in my back to further their own career. There's my rant.
Perhaps today I should take some inspiration from this post and try to spread a little positivity no matter how it is received by others.
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Yeah sounds like a toxic environment for sure man :(, the girls at work are super clique too.
I think my advice would still be the same, stay positive and find a way to have fun. (Even if it's antagonizing and playing jokes on the cliques you don't like.. lol) or maybe start looking for other options. Good luck and hope your inspired.
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This is stoicism. You're a stoic.
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Really, this is interesting and new's to me. I'll have to investigate, I just though I was positive, but Stoic sounds way cooler, those guys are bad ass....
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LOL
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Am so in love with the positive attitude
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Friend must do what one likes to do and in a place that feels comfortable, greetings, I invite you to visit my blog
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Love your positive attitude to live :)
Have a great day and stay positive ;)
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Thx, it's a great way to try to live!
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Haha "One big care bear stare " sounds great to me ! Thanks @phelimint for sharing your positive vibe post in my @popcontest ! Your so right about keeping a positive attitude in the workplace , why make yourself miserable all day !! And for sure "If you don't like what you got why don't you change it " 🎶haha sounds like a song 🎶 You only have one life to live ! Be happy !! I really hope you can move to a better position in the hospital that you like . Im glad I work alone on the quiet graveyard shift doing security , Haha ! I can blog all night like im doing now on steemit ! Good luck , upped and resteemed !👌👍✌👍👍
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Thx, don't get me wrong I love my job and am personally very happy there,just annoyed with all the bad attitudes.
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I hear ya my friend !!💕👍😀
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Great Post @phelimint :-)
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Hi, I also read the book "The Secret" and saw the documentary too and from that moment I change my life ... A pleasure to read you!
Have a happy day! ;-)
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Hey thanks for much for stopping by it's certainly a powerful message and great to embrace some positivity.
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Where focus goes energy flows!
You can watch the secret on youtube as well. I haven't read the book, but I enjoyed the movie.
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Yeah, it makes pretty good sense, not sure I buy into all the energy stuff, but it just works.
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Thumbs up for your postive attitude!
I too choose to be happy!
It is not so difficult to be positive. 😀
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I agree, once you get used to it, it's kinda fun.
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My wife used to send that same picture almost daily to a grumpy friend of ours at our old jobs. It cheered him up though he would never admit it.
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The kid or the carebears...lol.
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Back in the day when I was complaining about life, my hubby was quite straightforward with me and told me that "the world doesn't OWE me anything". This stuck with me and today I hold true to that fact. The world does not owe me any favours, no one owes me favours. I am the only one who can change my environment, my outlook, my happiness. Since then, the world has been a much more positive place. Ironically, I have been extremely blessed since!
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