New Year, New Motivation!

One of the hardest feelings to deal with in life, in my opinion, would have to be the feeling of inadequacy. The feeling that no matter what you do there's always someone who can do better. You write a blog? They've started one too and can write better than you. You've travelled Europe? They've travelled the world. But on the other end of the scale there's also those people who always have to be worse off than you. You've got the cold? They've got flu. You're having a bad day? They're having a bad month. You've lost your job and suddenly their marriage has broken up, they've lost their house and their job. And their dog. 

 I have always wondered why people like this genuinely exist. People who always have to be better off or worse off than you. I'm not quite sure what it is that leads to people having these feelings - maybe it's their own feelings of inadequacy. Surely as people we should be celebrating each other's achievements and supporting each other through harder times. At the end of the day you can never compare your problems to someone else's. Everyone deals with things differently and what might seem like the end of the world as you know it might just be a tiny blip on someone else's horizon. Your problem could be the beginning of new things, but for someone else they don't have a clue how they're ever going to go on. Everybody is different. 

 A huge potentially life changing (actually it's definitely life changing) decision in my work life has led to me aiming for something I never thought I'd ever attempt. And because of this potential for my success I've spent a lot of time talking to my colleagues about what they'd like to do if they ended up out of a job in care. Most of them seemed to be quite interested in pursuing an older interest or a newly formed interest - some of them stated they wouldn't want to go back into the job that they're in just now. Some of them are dreaming of pursuing goals they set when they were younger. It's nice to see people being positively re-motivated.

Although it makes you really wonder why do some people never think of the consequences of their actions on other people?