Are you part of the 30% that rate their days as stress filled?

What kind of an impact is this having on you?

According to Canadian Community Health Survey in 2011, daily stress rates were highest in the core working ages 35 to 54.

Why is that happening?

The people in these age groups are most likely to be managing multiple career and family responsibilities. In order to understand why people are in this career/family balancing act you have to look at the big picture.

According to The London School of Economics and Political Science 2007 article called ‘Family influences on the career life cycle’; “Today’s business school graduates are “looking for a work style to go with their lifestyle,” claims the HR consultancy Hay Group (The Economist, 2006). “Generation X and Generation Y workers, who are younger than 40, are more likely than boomers to say they put family before jobs,” says an article in USA Today (Elias, 2004). “Today’s younger employees are working to live rather than living to work,” states a newspaper manager in the journalism newsletter Fusion (Williamson, 2006).”

It is the last statement that is most concern from my perspective. When a person is ‘working to live’ it appears that their value system is confused. When I write about a value system I mean what principles are most important for you. So it appears that having all the latest gadgets and cars are most important. So it appears to me that the more these people are focused on the trivial the less happy they are.

So what has to change?

Are you up for it, or do you want to continue to live a very stress filled and shortened life?