The Little Book of Zen Money by Seven Dollar Millionaire

Author:Seven Dollar Millionaire [Millionaire, Seven Dollar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119859697
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2022-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Work Stress

Unfortunately, most of us experience work stress, whether we work for ourselves or work for someone else. It comes in all kinds of ways for all kinds of reasons.

Sometimes it's as simple as being the latest thing in a list that we don't want to do, that we feel someone else should have done but is instead getting dumped on us, late, again.

Other times it's that feeling of cognitive over‐load, that there are just too many complicated demands all at the same time, and our brain is starting to lock up. We can't see it, but inside our heads there's the equivalent of the spinning pinwheel on our computer screen to show that we need a reboot.

Or it can be the endless repetition of things we don't like, understand, want to do, with no end in sight, that causes us to feel like our lives should be so much more than just this.

And let's be 100% clear about this: it happens to entrepreneurs working for themselves as much as it does employees! You don't get money into your life without a client or two you don't like, and they're your new boss.

Do I have a magic way of avoiding this? Of course I don't, but I hope this book has a few ways of dealing with it. First, if it's possible, it shows that all is not lost and everything isn't hopeless.

Second, it does so in simple steps, so we can bite off little chunks. We might feel like we can't quit a job if we have zero savings, but what if we have five grand and a side‐job we can do on the road? If that doesn't work for you, what would? Ask yourself that, and you're moving closer to it step by step.

And third, we are going to do so mindfully. Situations cause stress, but the emotions of stress also cause situations. The pulsing of cortisol through our system can fug up our nervous system from working properly, making the outside world seem worse than it is. A little bit of zen practice will help us see better what is really going on out there and assess whether our reaction or response will make it better or worse, for us and everyone else.

A 2019 article by the Harvard Medical School posted four coping strategies to deal with work stress: relaxation, mindfulness, problem solving, and learning to re‐appraise negative thoughts.

All of those sound very zen.

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