Time to focus on yourself

Every single day we keep hearing from business, world leaders and economists on how grim the economy scenario is and how that is forcing tough actions. There have been massive layoffs, high unemployment rates, salary freezes, projects spends frozen etc.......By now most companies have announced that there would be no salary hikes for this year, flat headcount and paired down bonuses and incentives. This is not the year when you will get a incentive / bonus / reward for doing your job........yes its tough but the bottom line is you still have a paid job and that is incentive enough in this year to do your best work.

Its time to focus on yourself and what makes you happy as no one else is going to care about whether you are happy, recognised or motivated. Do all that you wanted to do but did not find the time to do or did not do as you had big stuff happening at work. Its time to focus back on basics and think of how you can see opportunites to learn and do work that will keep you motivated and engaged during year when good news is hard to come by.....

Its also time to stop reading into the gloom news and focussing on how you can do things that are in your control........