Healthy Lifestyle Geek

Challenge on the job is a healthy ingredient for a productive work life. It motivates and energizes you physically and mentally. Learning new skills to mastery supplies satisfaction.

On the other hand, job stress is physically and emotionally harmful leading to poor health. If your job does not match your capabilities, resources, or needs you might consider exploring other opportunities.

Feeling relaxed and satisfied is from challenge, while stress leaves you anxious and dissatisfied.

Job stress may be caused by your interaction with co-worker and/or the work conditions. An attempt to manage stress at work starts with determining which factor causes your stress. Obviously some work situations may have dual contributors.

Also, your personality and style for coping is important in predicting which job conditions results in stress. What is stressful for one person is not necessarily a problem for all.

Some work conditions are stressful no matter who is on the job. Situations with excessive workload demands coupled with conflicting expectations is difficult to manage. Stress management under these unpredictable circumstance may prove to be fruitless.

A commitment to live a healthier lifestyle should never take a back seat, especially not to stress. Assessing whether your job is challenging or stressful is a simple matter of reading your satisfaction meter.

A dip into the red zone of stress here and there is acceptably expected. Staying in the red most of the time is shaving years off the rest of your life.

No job on this planet is more important than your health, period.

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