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After being gone for a while I've been reading some of the posts on this board for about the last week and I wanted to write up something that may help some of you. I'm sure it will also upset a lot of people also, but hopefully this will resonate with a few too.
About this time last year I decided I wasn't going to come to this board anymore. I had been coming here regularly, and reading all the posts before starting my work day. Day after day post after post it was pretty much ALL negative. MTs calling MMEs stupid and power hungry, MMEs calling MTs lazy and uneducated, pretty much *everyone* talking about how horrible MModal is and how evil it is. You know, it was right about then I realized that this daily dose of negativity was really beginning to take its toll on me both work-wise and personally. I'm usually a pretty positive person but I started REALLY feeling demoralized, unappreciated, anxious and stressed out ... ALL DAY ... so I traced it back to the way I was starting my day out, my morning ritual of coming here before work and instead of starting my day out on a positive note, I was reading posts on this board that were hateful, angry, and completely negative. It was started to affect how *I* personally was feeling about the job that was paying my bills, putting food on my table, and allowing me to support myself and my son. Instead of feeling grateful, I realized, I was absorbing the deep negativity on this board on a subconscious level.
So I decided early in 2013 I was going to not come to this board anymore. I made the decision that instead of visiting this board every morning, I was instead going to visit a couple of pages that were uplifting, positive, and peaceful. WOW. What a *difference* a few months of absence has made. I not only noticed a huge difference in the way I felt about my work, my company, my performance, and my degree of gratitude for my job, but it affected the stress I felt and my relationship with my family because I wasn't getting that "daily dose" of hatefulness and negativity to start my day. No lie - even my productivity went up because my stress level and anxiety was lower, I'm passing ALL of my audits, I have a good relationship with my TSM and QC and I'm feeling much better about my job performance overall. I log on in the morning thinking positive thoughts about my work and I end it the same way. Istart my day out now with GRATITUDE instead of ATTITUDE and the transformation has actually been miraculous.
So, it's been almost a year and I decided to come back and visit, to see what's new, what's up, if anything has changed and do you want to know something? This board is the EXACT same as it was last year, the year before that, 5 years before that and 10 years before that. Absolutely nothing has changed, except ME. They say you can only see how bad a situation is, when you've been away from it for a while. I can say with all my heart that I love you ladies and I understand all your worries, your frustrations and your anxiety but instead of this daily dose of negativity, why not make a conscious decision today, at the beginning of the new year to STOP the negative madness and begin concentrating on the positive? Even if you can find ONE THING about your job that you like or enjoy, concentrate on that instead of harping on what you hate. Trust me on this, you won't believe the difference it will make in your mood, your attitude, your performance, and your outlook.
It is said that the energy we send out into the universe comes back to us a hundredfold. If we approach life, our job, our world with stress and "lack", we will receive more stress and "lack". If we approach life, our job, our world with gratitude for our abundance, we will receive more abundance. Even if we have *one thing* to be grateful for about our work, why not concentrate on that one thing, instead of all the things we're missing?
As for me, I'm going to return to my hiatus from the board now. I'm glad I stopped by and want to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year, and I hope you all have lots of positive thoughts and more than anything else, peacefulness this year.
Much love. <3