National Public Health Week Reflection: Your “Means to a Living” Could be Killing You, Here’s Why
The National Public Health Week 2013 theme got it spot on: “Public health is Return on Investment: Save Lives, Save Money.” Workers’ health is crucial to the industry and to the economy. Personally, our health is what keeps our business/jobs is what keeps us earning. We have to take care of it. Our business, our companies, our jobs — what brings food to the table — might be our very killers. Shocker, isn’t it?
The Silent Killer
This year’s World Health Day’s focus is today’s “silent killer”, and that is, hypertension or high blood pressure. The disease is killing more people than any of the most horrible accidents or diseases most of us greatly fear.
The overwhelming epidemic of hypertension is directly caused by our modern lifestyle characterized by too little exercise, too much reliance on fast food, and high levels of stress at work.
Alarmingly, more young people are falling prey to hypertension. According to the latest reports of the World Health Organisation (WHO), high blood pressure is now striking at an earlier age, affecting people in their 20s and 30s worldwide. Triggers to the disease often start at an earlier age, which only shows our lifestyle is silently killing us.
Why Your Own Business or Job is Killing You
Tough competition in the industry
The prevailing attitude in our modern times is hard work and competition. We sit in our desks and get bombarded by orders, deadlines and naggers. We are overwhelmed with “getting in the game” to survive another day in the tough arena of marketing, selling and promoting the business or our individual projects, getting ahead or staying ahead, consuming information and executing strategies, and all that.
Growth as the goal
We struggle to beat the competition and be the champion in this rat race to get the upper hand in the market share. Consequently, we perceive that to translate into business success, profit and revenue, and ultimately, growth. In turn, growth will pose new (and more) challenges in the list — which means, added stress to a business owner and the team.
The everyday grind
The daily grind of doing your job or running the business, keeping your head above the water is enough to accelerate your stress levels to breaking point. Everybody’s on to doing getting the job better. Managements are constantly on the lookout for methods to do business more efficiently and more effectively. This then trickles down to operations and the workforce. The grind to do things better is positive, however, just like with other things, drive also brings along with it friction. You might not be aware of it, thinking it’s but natural, however, your body and well-being is already suffering.
Think wear and tear. Happens to us all, even to the best of us.
Stress is real.
We’re already past the years wherein it’s considered as illusions of the mind, a case of hypochondria. Fighting stress at work effectively, and with finesse, is the main solution to preventing high blood pressure and the conditions it can lead to.
How do you defend yourself against the very real stress with finesse? How do you cope with it? Let’s hear your genius..
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