When Work Feels Like Prison!

Let's be honest, work sometimes can feel burdensome. Even if you are part of the 20% of Nigerians who actually truly enjoy what they are doing, chances are likely that you would rather be doing something else.

Job satisfaction rates are horrendous and one of the reasons is that people are slowly starting to realize that there is a better way to live. We are wising up to the fact that we don't NEED to work a crappy job and just grind out a living.No matter how you feel at the moment, remember that you have to work to pay the bills and sometimes hating your job makes it dreadful to go to work. 
A lot of people are truly sad with their jobs, they dread the endless circle of waking up every morning, bracing the traffic and coming to a job that they have lost passion for. Work for the most part simply feels like a prison sentence.

They sit in their cubicle or go for marketing calls with little or no passion, motivation or commitment. They only focus on salary alerts on pay day and see their jobs as a means to that end.

The following tips will help you stay motivated in your current job.

Reward Yourself after Meeting Goals

This doesn't have to mean meeting huge goals either. Make a list of small and larger goals. Little by little start to tackle those goals. As you accomplish them, mark them off. Being able to mark of these goals will feel great. It is nice and very rewarding to check goals as complete from a list. Make the goals realistic for yourself. Don’t set goals so high that it would be nearly impossible to reach them.

Only Compare Yourself to You

It is very easy and even difficult NOT to compare yourself to others. But it becomes impossible to measure up to someone who is not built and wired mentally the same way as you. Everyone is different and needs to set the right goals for themselves. We all have our own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. You may have an ability that someone you are comparing yourself to does not have.

Look at Your Accomplishments

Have you recently learned to deal with your depression and managed to keep moving despite it? That is an accomplishment. Have you moved up in your career because you were working so hard and got your promotion because of it? An accomplishment. Did you get your car into the shop even though it was well overdue and you procrastinated? That is still an accomplishment even if you did take too long to get it done.

Be Nice to Yourself

Write down what you like about yourself. What you like about your appearance, your personality, your abilities, your intelligence. Be thankful God made you that way. Put these up on a wall or somewhere you can refer to them when you are feeling down about yourself and not feeling motivated. Try to dwell more on what you like about yourself and what you have accomplished instead of focusing on what you haven’t done.

Surround Yourself

If you have a lot of negative people around you, it won’t help you feel more optimistic. You want to have a group of family and good friends who are there for you and could even help you with your slump. Confide in one of them if you need to. That is part of what family and real friends are for.