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Every week, we are bombarded by stress factors in our work life. Someone forgot a deadline, someone trying to make a deadline, following orders, attending useless meetings, attending useful ones…the list is infinite with possibility. We have different personalities at play, and ultimately, have to fit our own sanity into the mix at some point or another. We have to remember ourselves enough to stay the course and get the job done.
This, as many people know, is easier said than done. I wouldn’t even want to know the exact statistic that acknowledges how much we take our work lives home with us – how our living has become a product of where we spend our work hours, as much as our personal life defines the other components of our psyche.
At the very beginning of my blogging career, (a mere 2 years ago) I began to write exclusively about yoga, and how it relates to the stress in our life and work. Yes that’s right, yoga. I don’t strike many people as the yoga type, but the yoga and the blog did magic for giving myself the solution to a really tough time. I had a job that was draining me personally and professionally, and I was not really happy with many things outside of my relationship – which is never a good thing.
Not many people read the blog, it wasn’t really about the power of community. It was more of an online diary, a journey. It helped me make some Zen-ness out of a really un-zen situation.
Sometimes, as I try to turn my blog into a community, a way to connect with others, I forget the way in which my blogging started. It was an extension of the yoga that I was doing, and a lot of the philosophy I was learning about.
Running has really replaced yoga as my fitness of choice, but I definitely still am going to strive harder to connect with the Zen philosophical part of it – the inner yoga, as some people call it. Now that some people are reading my blog, maybe it can help everyone sort of ask themselves:
What is your personal zen-coping mechanism? What is that one thing (or person?) that makes you achieve balance between your work and your life?
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