Take ACTION, change DIRECTION!

These days the workload gets up and up for lots of people. Many companies want to cut costs and raise their earnings. While counting and cutting costs they create costs for replacing ill employees due to overwork. They create costs for correcting the mistakes. They create costs for the outcome of the mistakes like losing customers…..

Many people like you want to be at their best. The best any company can do is: offering possibilities to you to be at your best while being healthy. This helps your company as it is the best investment in loyal and excellent employees.

People come up with lots of ideas to find more time to do the work. They work from dawn to dusk and still go home  with the feeling that they missed their goals for the day. There is still work and tomorrow new work will be added.

That creates the feeling of lacking any influence in your life. You just do what it takes to survive with all that workload and expectations from others.

What a horrifying feeling! You are in danger if you feel that way. You are right on the way to burn out.

Did you stopped caring about your nutrition and balancing your life a while ago?  Due to all the pressure on you lack time and energy to care for your wellbeing. That increases your risk to burn out. While you slowly increasing speed and workload you ruin your health. When you are ill and go to work you hardly get ahead of your work.

What can you get done when you sleep too little, have a headache and depend on coffee or medicine to come through your day?

With all that pressure you will make mistakes after a while. Now you are in real trouble. You need additional time to correct your failures.

So your performance suffers and your health. To feel bad all the time about what you have missed creates more worries. You just grab some fast-food and sweeties when starving and make things even worse. You feel exhausted nearly all the time. The pills give you less and less the kick you need to go on.

Be honest you need to find a sustainable solution without depending on pills.

You can turn things around for yourself. You can get ahead of the game.  Start with some easy little steps right away.

First get active turning things around. This will help you a great deal to feel better as you are in charge now. You can change something for yourself.

Establish a better way to deal with yourself and the challenges you have to face. Learn to care about yourself. The most important person in your life is YOU. The only person in your life that can turn things around in your life is YOU.

Start with easy things. Change your nutrition. There are healthier fast-foods than burgers or sweeties. Think about fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Peeling a banana or washing an apple  is as fast as unwrapping a burger. You should take your time to eat in a quiet place.  Replace caffeine with pure water.

Learn to breathe properly as it helps to let go of tension.

Finally move to release your tension and feelings.

Break with your habits that stop you from being healthy and performing excellent at the same time.

Working that way lets you achieve better results in less time. You will learn to be aware of how you do things. And you will learn how to improve things right away when you want.

So when you have to do the same in the future it will be easier for you as you know how to do it the best way.

It will enable you to stay healthy while improving your performance.

Breathing and letting go help you to get rid of bad feelings: old and current ones.

Breaking your habits helps you to open for new possibilities and to acquire new skills.

Better nutrition raises your energy level.

All together it helps changing your mindset and transforming yourself.

I am sure you know how crucial your mindset is for your success and wellbeing including your health.

Take action,

Change direction,

Act and direct your life.

Now YOU are ahead of the game again.

Larissa Glueck,

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Photographer: Counting money: urpppp; rope Vincintrice; powerlightening: demma; fruits: forwardcom; apple: lockstockb; pills: Leonardini