Gratitude - The Simplest Solution For Shift Worker Unhappiness

Are you unhappy in your current shift working job? Do you dread going into work each day knowing that you just don't want to be there?

If so, then I might just have the answer for you.

It's called gratitude.

You see whenever you're feeling frustrated and jaded at work - this puts you in a negative frame of mind which inadvertently adds to your fatigue and overall feeling of unhappiness.

How you think at work can have a huge impact on your energy levels- or more appropriately, your lack of energy.

We all know that shift work is physically demanding on our bodies. OK let's not kid ourselves here - it's absolutely exhausting.

But if your attitude and mindset about work is in the wrong place to begin with, then you are only adding to your fatigue and overall feeling of unhappiness. It's a bit like being around a really negative person all of the time - they sap your energy big time!

So the next time you feel disgruntled about work, instead of saying, "I have to go to work today," change it to "I get to go to work today".

Because so many of us today focus on all of the negative things and on what we don't have in our lives, as opposed to what we do have.

We feel that our lives would be better if we drove a certain type of car, lived in a certain area or neighbourhood, wore certain types of clothes and so on.

We essentially forget to live in the moment - that is, being grateful for what we already have in our lives instead of focussing on all that we don't have.

So the next time you're feeling a bout of 'shift worker unhappiness' coming on, I want you to remember that there are many people around the world who would just love to be able to "go into work". Unfortunately for them, they may not have a job to go too or their ill health prevents them from doing so.

Gratitude in life is everything. When you begin to change your thinking from someone who is unhappy and miserable all of the time, to someone who is thankful and appreciative, your shift working job and everything else in your life will begin to improve for the better.

Begin by trying this for just one day. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Audra Starkey is a Shift Work and Airline Veteran based in Brisbane, Queensland Australia. She is the author and creator of 'The Healthy Shift Worker' - a site developed to help people cope with the perils of working crazy and irregular hours. To get your Healthy Shift Worker Free Report, visit http://www.healthyshiftworker.com/.

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SHIFT work-satisfaction-what is Your Tipping Point?

Find the job challenging, enjoyable, and full can certainly be a hard thing to do. Could indeed be a very hard thing to do.

So if you are working with a task to find some kind of shift-satisfaction, have you ever been ". .. What is my tipping point?"

This means that there is something or someone that will "Tip You over the edge" and finally, we encourage you to hand in the resignation?

Because, despite what you may find-really you must have a tipping point.

Why Is That? Well we all know people who whine and complain whenever they are at work. A funny thing, most will never do anything about it! Instead, without care or remuneration for their fellow employees, one sap energy from those around them with their constant negative.

And how negative breeds more negative-what is the sense of to do this?

I am sure would agree that work work in shifts is difficult. Really difficult. So if you're not happy job working shift then something.

Ask yourself. I am really happy at work? If not what will finally give me the courage to quit and find something to do? Here are some ideas to laughter.

* It will be the altercation with a client or colleague?

* Will be because you're sick and tired of getting up in the middle of the night to go to work?

* It will be a sudden decline in health?

* It might be because you want to follow Your passion, Desperately and do something that you enjoy? Something that really makes your heart sing?

Whatever it is, write it down. Keep it in your pocket and see this daily, because regardless of the focus on will finally become a reality.

"Whatever you believe" with feeling, has become a reality. " -Brian Tracey.

So do not appear alone to live in discontent total work shift. In fact, it need not be this way. Despite what you might think you're really you manage permissions to change your life in so many ways-i contains the task.

You are, where are you now, because of the decisions and choices that were made in the past. So the only way to Change the future is to start, make a better choice, ones that will steer you from where you are now, you want to.

Remember that you have only one life and every chance to do something to do with it, so could also go out and do it.

Audra Starkey is work in shifts and veteran airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is the author and creator of "The Healthy Shift Worker"-a site designed to help you cope with Foot Servitude and crazy and irregular working hours. To get a healthy free employee Shift report, visit http://www.healthyshiftworker.com/.

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