The ‘Stress Less’ Diet

This year has already changed my perspective on a number of areas in my life. The whole ‘less stress, more fun’ goal has meant really thinking about what it is we are doing as a family to appreciate the time we have together.

The 2 areas for stress that I was experiencing came from money and work. The first we have been fortunate enough to sort.

The second, being work, I assume a lot of people would probably agree with being theirs as well. Work can be a breeding ground for stress. It can be because of the workload, the unrealistic targets, or purely some of the morons you have to deal with whilst trying to make enough money to pay for your life. It’s so easy to get stressed at work.

I’m someone that thinks a lot about everything, so inevitably my thoughts turned to how I could reduce this work stress. Having changed jobs in August 2021, I can safely say I will never be as stressed in this role as I was in my previous one, thank god! This job (sometimes) presents a different kind of stress that usually comes down to people not thinking about how their actions affect others and it usually emerges from 1 or 2 familiar characters.

Having learnt from the phrase “keep your friends close, etc”, I’ve learnt to work hard on the relationships that piss me off the most. One lesson I learnt is although it may take some effort at the beginning, once you are over the biggest hurdle and things start to improve, the next battle doesn’t seem so hard. Each time feels like a lightbulb moment which makes me wonder why I didn’t do it sooner.

There have been many character building knobheads that I have come across in my working life, but without their challenges I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t have learnt the lessons or had the chance to acknowledge just how strong I can be in certain situations, so as challenging as they were, I have to thank them for teaching me such valuable lessons.

So to anyone who maybe reading this, if you have one of these ‘gems’ who are teaching you, embrace the lessons and know that come the end of it all, you will come out a better person for it.

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