How do you feel about your life. Do you make achievable goals or just fester that someone seems to have it better than you.

How do you feel about your life. Do you make achievable goals or just fester that someone seems to have it better than you.

I think this anxiety is from sense of lack of control in our lives - a feeling that things are good for now. Certainly employment has changed from work hard and (at least) keep your job to why put anything more than you feel like in because tomorrow you may be cut for company profits. People seems to buy into the corporate stakeholder overriding government and social stakeholders (in the US) which only makes lives less settled. Even at work things have moved to a more diffuse responsiblity. If you haven't been involved in team sports you aren't going to have the self motivation to do your part well without the potential to be a superstar. And with lower wages, employment is more important than ever.

It's easy for me to overcome this - I'm in Canada and we're getting a lot of head pats right now. Pretty PM with a positive social agenda for Canada. Yep we're selling armoured vehicles to the middle east but take refugees. We suck at collectively addressing climate change but 1) Canada stand to benefit from warming (agriculture) and 2) we are still doing something. We recognize that well educated immigrants are doing tasks we don't the skills to do (whether social or knowledge). We still need to strengthen our social net for military and others but we have the tools.

Or my middle name is Pollyanna.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-other-people-are-getting-rich-off-your-anxiety/