Hi Steemians, I hope you had a great weekend!
Today I would like to write about how often people relate to the reality of having to work and because for a large majority, at least in my home country of origin and a few others I have visited around the world people have a mentality and negative concept about work or about called workaholics.
I see many people on Sunday lamenting that on Monday they will have to work and on Friday they are in ecstasy saying: Thank God! I don't have to work tomorrow.
In my life experience I could see that this is the result of many factors but in this post I will concentrate on the ones that I identified as the main ones in my journey as a people coach.
Much of this negative view comes from a legacy that for thousands of years we carry in our genetic memory and is related to slave labor and of course this was taught from generation to generation and clearly the act of working was related to something negative.
I know that there are countries including in my some regions still exist slave labor as well as in many countries of the world where respect with people could be compared to the most perverse instincts that anyone can treat people.
But I would like to mention why this feeling exists in people who work in cities like New York, São Paulo (with over 12 million inhabitants), I'm referring to people of all professions and occupations that have this feeling inside that working is slavery.
I have come to many conclusions and in these specific cases I go back to the paradigms.
When the industrial revolution began especially after the second world war the generation that worked a lot in the industries were employed with very heavy functions and many had no study to be engineers, doctors, professions that the same generation had the desire and ended up transferring that desire or imposition for the next generations.
If we look at what has happened is that parents who lived at the time of the industrial revolution educated the next generation with a voice recorder repeating the phrase: You need to go to college and study to be someone in life and be successful.
Here we see another paradigm.
We currently know that going to college, unless you want to be a doctor, engineer or something like for example if you go to work with something that can hurt people. Currently the education system is inefficient and doesn't guarantee the success of anyone, if we can say that one day guaranteed!
A young person of about 15 years of age hardly knows what he wants for his life but he will make a college just be graduated and often this will not result in anything to these people.
The result of all this is the frustration of people who are going to work in professions that they would not want to have and as a consequence the work is seen with the negative concept because obviously this person will be dissatisfied with their life, because they realize that the your true dreams are getting more and more distant. With this, people come to understand that they are not living but are surviving.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, I started working since I was 13 years old knowing very well what I wanted for my life but in some times I had to do tasks that I didn't like but I knew that these tasks would take me to the next step that would do me to get where I wanted to go in my life.
I was always seen by people as a person who only thought about working and didn't enjoy life but they didn't understand one thing: Work was never a punishment for me because I always did with pleasure my work and as a consequence for me my work always be my hobby.
I know this post will still have to have other chapters because I would have to write a book about it but I would like to share this message with you to reflect with a single goal.
Never give up on your dreams because working hard is important but you have to understand that if you don't like what you do think every day that you are doing this job but with the goal that it is only a period you are living to achieve the what do you want.
"MANY TIMES WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE DON'T LIKE BUT WHAT IS US CONVENIENT FOR ONE DAY TO DO WHAT WE LIKE"
But do not forget! You should also plan what you want to achieve and have discipline for it. Read the previous post because it is completely interconnected to this.
Have a good week!
A BIG HUG!