Your job can be one of the best things in your life, providing you with a place to use your talents, adequate to very good pay, some good friends and colleagues, and other things. It can also cause you frustration, stress, little financial security and even physical harm. Ask yourself these questions about your job. The more "no" answers you get, the more likely
you are not in the right job or working in the right place.

1. Do you look forward to going to work every day?
2. Does your job allow you to put your talents and abilities to work?
3. Do you feel you have relatively "good" job security?
4. Does your job offer you both good salary as well as good benefits?
5. Do you feel a good sense of accomplishment most of the time while at work?
6. Does the time/workday seem to go by rapidly most of the time?
7. Is the atmosphere of your job friendly, and is there a reasonable amount of sociability?
8. Is the physical environment where you work safe, clean and generally pleasant?
9. Are you getting paid what you feel you are worth?
10. Do you feel you are appreciated and respected by your boss or other superiors?

If you answered no to more than 3-4 of these, it might be time to look for another job or employer, since it is already taking some toll on you, and will get worse over time if you continue to work there (unless you can change your situation so you do not have 3-4 or more "no" answers).

[How To Make Your Personal & Business Life Healthier & More Successful!]

1. Get rid of any unfinished business with people from the past. Let go of old hurt, resentment and anger. They drain your emotional and physical energy and make it very hard for you to have better relationships in the present. To be able to attract success and love in the present, you must be willing and able to "let go" of your past.
 
2. Honestly assess your current financial situation. Look at your income, your debts, your plans for retirement. Look at all of it, either by yourself or with a financial planner or CPA. Stress from debts or worry over money has ruined many businesses and relationships. It is also a huge stressor and can make a person physically and emotionally ill.
 
3. Assess your health honestly. Look in the mirror and see if you feel you look healthy. How is your energy level, diet, exercise routine, blood pressure, etc.? If you are in doubt as to your accurate health, see your doctor and get a physical. Get healthy by *choice* before you are forced to by illness or a "scare."
 4. Listen eighty percent and talk twenty percent. We all love to be heard, but many of us talk much more than we need to personally and professionally. Others like to be heard, and in your business and your personal life learning to listen well is vital to having successful relationships. Talking too much is a habit. The way to break it is to be quiet more often. It takes practice!
 
5.  Always be 100% honest with people in your business and in your personal relationships. This speaks to integrity and loyalty and trust. If a person does not feel they can trust you it will be very hard to build a good, long lasting, healthy relationship with them.
 
6.  Make a monthly and an annual goals list. Decide what you need and want and are lacking. Write down the steps you feel you need to take to get those things. Make your goals both reasonable and challenging. Know what your values are and combine them with your needs if it helps your planning.
 
7.  Upgrade your personal standards and boundaries. Once you know exactly what your standards and boundaries are, be sure the people you have in your life are meeting them or honoring them. Have some rules for what you will and will not accept from people. The higher your standards and actions, the more likely you will attract people and events of the same level into your life.
 
8.  Get rid of any "tolerations" or annoyances in your life if possible. These are things we do to ourselves, things we allow others to do or say to us, and also things within our environment which cause us irritation or frustration. All tolerations drain you of some energy you could better use elsewhere. They impact your life quality. Try and have as few as possible. Accept and live with what you truly cannot change.
 
9.  Take a look at your career and your career goals. Are you doing what you love and loving what you do? Are you satisfied both financially and emotionally with your profession and work? If you have any serious qualms about your profession, it is rarely ever too late to change. It can be very unhealthy for you not to change if you are unhappy.
 
10.  Talk and think in the *present* at least 90% of the time. If people had a recording of their daily conversations and thoughts, most would find they spent anywhere from 30-50% or more talking or thinking about things that are over and in the past.  The past is done and you do not know the future. It is a waste of time and energy to think about and talk about the past (reminiscing with family or friends is different of course). Keeping your thoughts and words in the present is one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself.