A THOUSAND SHADES OF STRESS
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What is your biggest workday challenge right now? Suffering through micromanagement? Working through anxiety or depression? Suffering through an infantalizing workplace that keeps you from growing? Finding the energy and motivation to survive at a job that feels a million miles away from your true passions?
There are a thousand different causes of professional stress and a seemingly infinite number of ways in which that stress can manifest itself. Some of us tremble at the hands of abusive coworkers or clients while others among us are just too bored to feel much of anything. Some of us are overwhelmed by the competitive nature of our workplace while others lose a grasp on optimism because of a humorless or judgmental workplace.
And how does the professional stress show up for us? It exists as headaches for some people, anger issues for others, and a general dulling of the senses for still others among us. Some of us might get loud and belligerent while others might stop expressing a personal voice. Some of us might take our stress out on family members while others only take it out on ourselves, and some of us might throw ourselves into substance abuse while others flatline and stop engaging in any pleasurable activities at all.
There are so many different causes and side-effects of professional stress that it would be impossible to discuss them all, but The Lovely Grind will attempt to touch on a large number of them by focusing on a different variety of workplace challenge/professional stress each month. And each and every month The Lovely Grind Newsletter will give readers brand new messages of spiritual inspiration that are related to that month's professional theme. SO SIGN UP HERE TO RECEIVE THE FREE 30-DAY DEVOTIONAL AND THE FREE NEWSLETTER. LOVELY GRIND SUBSCRIBERS WILL ENJOY A VARIETY OF SPIRITUALLY INSPIRING MESSAGES ALONG WITH SOME AWESOME BETTER-LIVING IDEAS, SO SIGN UP NOW. You'll actually enjoy checking your e-mail at work. Imagine that.
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Here is the full list of stressors and challenges that are discussed in The Lovely Grind's messages:
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ABANDONED DREAMS
ANGER
ANXIETY
BOREDOM
CAREER CHANGE QUESTIONS
CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
COMPETITIVE WORKPLACE
CYNICISM
DEATH (persistent worry about)
DEMANDING WORKPLACE
DEPRESSION
DISINGENUOUS WORKPLACE
DISPASSIONATE WORKPLACE
DOMINEERING WORKPLACE
DOWNSIZING AND LAYOFFS
EMOTIONAL NUMBNESS
EXISTENTIAL WORRIES
FAITH (maintaining at all times)
FATIGUE
FLEXIBLE LIVING (getting better at)
GOSSIP IN THE WORKPLACE
HECTIC PACE OF LIVING
HOPELESSNESS
HUMORLESS WORKPLACE
IMPERSONAL WORKPLACE
INFANTILIZING WORKPLACE
INSOMNIA
INTERPERSONAL ISSUES
(such as coworker problems)
ISOLATION
JUDGMENTAL WORKPLACE
LEGALISTIC WORKPLACE
LIFE/WORK BALANCE
LOSS OF IDENTITY OR INDIVIDUALITY
MAKING DECISIONS THAT INVOLVE PEOPLE
MEETINGS
MICROMANAGEMENT
MONDAY MORNINGS
MONOTONY
MOTIVATION ISSUES
NEW EXPERIENCES (lack of)
PERSISTENCE (remembering the importance of)
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL FINANCE WORRIES
POLITICS AND POWER STRUGGLES
PRESENT-MOMENT LIVING (getting better at)
PROFESSIONAL AMBITION ISSUES
PROFESSIONAL DISAPPOINTMENT
REST AND RENEWAL (making time for)
RESTLESSNESS AND STRIVING
SCHEDULING AND PLANNING ISSUES
SELF-CONFIDENCE/SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES
SICKNESS (working through)
THANKLESS WORKPLACE
THREATENING WORKPLACE (and workplace intimidation)
UNHEALTHY LIVING
UNINSPIRING WORKPLACE
WORKLOAD ISSUES
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