HEALTH

FINANCIAL DEPRESSION AND OUR HEALTH

Poor financial health may lead to poor mental health. Much more important is logical inverse: that taking active steps to ensure our financial health is very likely to pay positive dividends on our mental health as well.

If you are worried about money, you are not alone. It’s a very common worry. Financial stress can affect your relationships and your health, so it’s very important to seek help and support as early as possible. Lots of situations can cause financial stress. You might have lost your job or been retrenched, you might be unemployed or unable to find sufficient work, you might have debts you cannot pay or you might feel worried about expected financial pressures.

 Some signs that financial stress is affecting your health and relationships include arguing with the people closest to you about money, difficulty sleeping, feeling angry or fearful, mood swings, tiredness, muscle pain, loss of appetite, lower sex drive and withdrawing from others. While these are normal reactions, they can affect your health if they continue for more than a few weeks. You could be at risk of developing anxiety or depression. Some people use drugs or alcohol to help them cope. Some have thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

Be realistic and take control of your changed financial situation, here are some tips to help you through this difficult time:

• Stay on top of your emotions - Write down your worries to help you work out which issues to tackle first.
• Look after your health - Eat a healthy, balanced diet and exercise regularly. Talk to your doctor if you have a pre-existing medical condition that could be aggravated by stress.
• Share your feelings with supportive friends and colleagues - Identify people you can talk to about how you are feeling and who will help you remain positive.
• Be honest with your family - Tell them about the situation and how it might affect the household budget..
• Draw up a budget - Write down a summary of your finances and work out how much money you need to cover your costs. You may need to limit your spending for a while.
• Contact your bank - Most financial institutions have policies in place to assist customers experiencing financial problems.
• Contact a Department of Human Services social worker - They can give you extra support and advice on coping with financial stress.

LIFE

Life is not always great.

At times it may not feel OK.

When things aren’t going your way then you sometimes get frustrated. That’s natural and OK. So instead of trying to push these emotions away accept and process them.

But also know how to not get stuck in them because then they’ll just suck a lot of energy and time of your precious life.

One thing that helps me to reduce that frustration so I can move forward once again is to stop my thoughts from bouncing around in the past or a possible future by reconnecting with this moment.

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

How to Deal With Failure as an Ambitious Individual……

Are you ambitious?
Are you a goal getter?
Do you have dreams that you are chasing?

“9 out of 10 people don’t even remember their dreams. They only know the facts and the facts are that escaping the 9-5 treadmill is on everybody’s mind, but only a few are actually taking action. Why is this?

There are possibly a dozen different answers. However, in the same way that all roads lead to Rome, I really believe all answers related to my question have one thing in common: failure. We are all born with a go-getter spirit.
Unfortunately, over time, as you transcend from adolescence to adulthood and from adulthood to parenthood, life knocks some reality into you.

5 Ways to Deal with Failure:

1) Create A Powerful Vision and Mission Statement: Because “Intelligent without mission is like a bird without wings”

2) List All Your Goals: I don’t know what your life goals are. But, I urge you to think them through carefully. If you think it through and write it down, the chances of it getting achieved and avoiding failure is so much higher

3) List All The Benefits Of Your Goals: Setting goals and writing them down is half the victory. The hidden and less spoken about truth is that you WILL (not maybe) come across massive, heart-breaking challenges. The most effective way of dealing with this is to list the benefits of your goals.

4) Surround yourself with Relevant People: so that they will motivate you and will not criticize you on failure.

 5) Consider Your Failure As Temporary: I have mentioned and will repeat it – you WILL fail. But, a slight change of perspective will do you a world of good. Simply treat all your failure as temporary.

 

Having A Best Friend

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand; “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone;

“Today my best friend saved my life.”

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him;

“After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied;

“When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Moral of the story: 

Don’t value the things that you don’t have in your life. But value what   you have in your life.

LIFE

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in us.”

                                                                                       William Shakespeare

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

It is true that optimists or positive thinkers are at an advantage in life compared to pessimists. This is because of the effect of mindset and attitude on the things coming into the life. Our social relationships, our jobs and also our health are an integral part of our daily life and we can feel how negative and positive thoughts can have a prominent effect on everything we do during the day.

Hence the way we choose to think, has a great impact on the outcome and is mirrored in everything we do.

NEW TECHNOLOGY           

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic”. - Arthur C. Clarke

 Technology is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. It is ever evolving. Technology is a tool invented and modified by humans to make their life easier. Technology has gifted mankind with various boons but look closely and you will realize that technology have blessed mankind with two important aspects- facility of communication and creation of time. Technology has played a very important role in making the world a “Global Village”. Today from needle to airplane we are surrounded with technology.

Technology has helped man take a small step which in time has become a giant leap for mankind.

Technology is important but it is time humans decided where to draw the line. We should remember those gifts which Mother Nature has provided us and master them.

 

“The Science of today is the Technology of Tomorrow”

LIFE

It is very much true that encouraging thinkers or optimists are at a benefit in life compared to pessimist. This is because of the result your state of mind and attitudes have on the whole thing we come across. Our social affairs, our occupation and also our healthiness are a fundamental part of our daily life and we can feel how unconstructive and constructive thoughts can have a different effect on everything we do during the day. The way we choose to think, productive or unnecessary, has a great collision on the final outcome and is mirrored in everything we do. Consequently the magnitude of having a unbiased outlook on life. Productive and constructive thinking is power for your soul. Whether you are an optimist or a pessimist.

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

Stop Thinking and Start Doing

We all have goals that we want to achieve in our lives. These goals may include becoming an engineer, becoming an entrepreneur, learning a new language, eating healthier and losing weight, becoming a better person, saving more money, and so on.

It can be caused by a lack of knowledge. This is why we buy courses on how to start a business or how to lose weight fast or how to learn a new language in three months.

We are easy to assume that the gap between where you are now and where you want to be in the future assuming that if we knew about a better strategy, than we would get better results. We believe that a new result requires new knowledge.

What I’m starting to realize, however, is that new knowledge does not necessarily drive new results. In fact, learning something new can actually be a waste of time if your goal is to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge.

It all comes down to the difference between learning and practicing. Thomas Sterner in his book “The Practicing Mind” rightly said, “When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a specific goal. The words deliberate and intention is the key here because they define the difference between actively practicing something and passively learning it.”