How to combat fatigue, demotivation and stress at work

Work or your life and professional development implies a great investment of daily hours and conditions a large part of your well-being and personal life. It can be a motivating daily challenge that makes you grow or, on the contrary, be a source of stress, fatigue and demotivation.

However, on many occasions the problem is not at work... but in how we feel when facing it.

Stress, but also fatigue (without any apparent justification), lack of motivation or discouragement are usually a source of discomfort and, above all, confusion when working. We feel that nothing makes sense and we don't know where those feelings come from. On many occasions this occurs at times when, objectively, everything seems to be going as well as possible, but the motivation and illusion that we felt some time ago seems to have vanished.

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Emotional balance at work

The key to harmonize your work with your personal life and achieve more and better results and what is really motivating is not exactly what you do but how you do it.

In this sense, personal skills are essential to know what is happening and how to solve it. What really conditions you in your work or professional life? It is above all psychological and emotional factors: how you feel, how you manage your emotions, how you relate or communicate with others, your degree of trust or security, or even your self-esteem.

First of all, we are human beings, social and emotional, and we do not stop being it at work. Especially in working life, our way of understanding and managing our emotions, your way of relating, communicating, and also to motivate you intrinsically (that is, that your enthusiasm is managed by you and not by external factors, which is impossible for us check).

Amotivation as a psychological and emotional factor

At certain moments in our lives we feel tired, unmotivated and stressed at work because we are not knowing how to manage situations and above all our own state of mind. In other situations, which are becoming more common in consultations, discouragement at work occurs after a very intense period of time (sometimes years), full of enthusiasm and success, and also full of impulsiveness and energy.

Motivation and drive are also emotional states that have to be managed to be balanced, and when there is a very charged period of time with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, over time we can reach the opposite extreme, leaving your well-being in the hands of external factors that you cannot check.

In the last 10 years I have accompanied people in change processes who wanted to improve their professional life but because they had lost the illusion, the focus and the spirit to continue and enjoy their work and life professional. At times, there was also confusion and difficulty in making decisions, since they did not know which way to go. In these cases, learning to know yourself, knowing how to understand and manage both your discouragement and your insecurity and fears, is essential so that the change occurs in you and is stable.

In this video I am going to explain to you much better what this fatigue, lack of motivation and stress could be due to, and above all, how you can solve it thanks to your own personal change.

When your well-being depends on external factors, these being factors that you cannot control (certain moments of your life, the attitude of others, certain concrete results of living in simpler or more prosperous times), we end up feeling frustration and anxiety and in the long term these feelings become discouraged and loss of control (demotivation).

When you know how to understand and manage your emotional world, your well-being depends again mainly on what you do, how you do it, and how you interpret what happens to others. This is how you regain balance, but it implies living a process of personal change where the changes come precisely through your own change. That is what will stay with you forever and what will help you enjoy your life again, with balance. professional so that you can also harmonize it with your personal life, forming part of a whole based on trust and tranquillity.

If you want to take the step to experience this process of change, I encourage you to schedule a free first exploratory session at empoderamientohumano.com. We will be able to get to know each other, explore your situation more, discover the problem, find the solution and finally see how I can accompany you in that process of change where you are the protagonist and you recover the illusion not because of the external factor (in this case what happens to you around) but for your own life and learning, since it is what you will always have with you and we have to learn to manage and have it our side.