Yesterday, not a whole lot of funny stuff happened, but I laughed anyway.
At my other job as a career counsellor (which I just just discovered is another one of those words that can be spelled with two l’s or not and be correct either way), the place where I work has lost its government contract and will be shutting down operations soon. So a bunch of the contract staff (that’s me) will be laid off in the next few months.
I was still laughing.
Now the end of March seems to be a date when a bunch of the contract staff might go, but I would probably stay on after that at least for a little while, which means that before I lose the job my workload would increase and be hectic for the last few months.
I was still laughing.
While everyone else was complaining, I was laughing.
Let me take a moment to share some advice from a wise man:
Complaining is useless, it gets you nowhere, in fact is usually makes you feel worse (more angry, upset, frustrated). If you had something happen to you or are in a situation you don’t like, you have two constructive options: Accept it, or change it.
Either accept that it happened (or is happening or will happen) and move on, or take action to change it.
I guarantee that if you can do this (I know from experience that it can be harder than it sounds, but if you can), you will feel so much better than if you complained about it.
I’ve accepted that, in my other job, I work for the government and things change and nothing is stable and this job would only last so long (it was a contract after all). This means I can laugh while others are angry or upset.
It’s not always easy to learn how to do this, but if you are interested, drop me a line. It will certainly save you a lot of heart-ache in the long run.
Keep laughing.