| If you have ever made a major relocation, moving | | | | How much money is your health worth? Taking that |
| from one city or town to a completely different | | | | job that looks really good on your resume and pays |
| area, then you know how stressful that type of | | | | 4 times what you make now doesn't look so |
| move can be. The advent of the information age | | | | appealing once you find out that to take the job you |
| didn't do a lot for the mitigation of that stress like | | | | have to live at the base of an active volcano or in |
| we had been lead to believe it would. | | | | the middle of a bone dry desert. |
| Get all the information you need, always at your | | | | Even though those types of analogies aren't all that |
| fingertips, be worry free, no more making | | | | fair to make, because for some, those may be just |
| uninformed decisions. Some how those types of | | | | the kind of places they have been looking for. For |
| claims have done little to relieve stress, the fact is | | | | most though, to move to those places would place |
| they may have been instrumental in bringing about | | | | them under tremendous amounts of stress. |
| even more stress for us to deal with in our daily lives. | | | | So many times when a new job comes our way, we |
| When computers, big networks, and the internet | | | | tend to want to make snap decisions based on |
| came into being, we were all told how much easier | | | | money and prestige, not seeing the big picture, and |
| they would make our lives. What they have in fact | | | | we end up making bad decisions. Not about our ability |
| done, by speeding up the processing of information, | | | | to handle the job, or about our calculation of income, |
| is to increase competition in the market place making | | | | but rather our lack of knowledge about necessary |
| it necessary for almost everyone to get MORE done | | | | relocation factors. |
| in less time to be able to just stay in the game. Sure | | | | Many a good person has taken a promotion that |
| we have all this information at our fingertips, but | | | | required relocation, thinking that they could adjust, |
| information that is not acted upon is next to | | | | only to find out later that had they known the full |
| worthless. | | | | scoop, they would not have opted to take that job. |
| Getting more done requires more action. More action | | | | Sure their income increased, but their quality of life |
| requires more decisions. More decisions via the | | | | dropped dramatically due to the inability to adapt to a |
| concern about making the right decisions, causes | | | | particular set of surroundings or a particular climate or |
| more stress in our lives. It's a snowball effect really. | | | | environment |
| So when it comes to taking the time to move to a | | | | So if and when that new job requires a relocation, |
| new location, the though process needed to | | | | use a good thought process to mentally map out |
| complete the task many times takes a back seat to | | | | your move. Take the time to do a "hands on" |
| what might be considered more important decisions. | | | | inspection of the new location if at all possible. You |
| Do you really want to make a bad moving decision? | | | | can see a million pictures of a desert and still not |
| What might the consequences of making a bad | | | | actually know how hot it really gets. Consider hiring a |
| moving decision be? Don't be fooled into thinking that | | | | professional moving consultant who can put you in |
| that it couldn't happen to you. To do so could set | | | | touch with the right real-estate people if needed. |
| you up for a very hard fall. | | | | They can do the legwork of having to find the |
| Where we live and how we view our position in our | | | | proper spot to match your lifestyle in the new |
| surroundings is a crucial part of who we are. Not only | | | | location. |
| in our family and personal lives, but professionally as | | | | Build a good mental picture of you in your new job in |
| well. Because our environment affects us directly in | | | | your new location. Then analyze that mental picture |
| many ways, care should be given to the decision | | | | against the facts and information you can obtain |
| process that will determine the relocation spot. | | | | about the job and location. Do they line up? Does the |
| Moving to a location where we don't feel at ease, | | | | new location meet your expected needs personally; |
| regardless of how well that new job pays would be | | | | will it meet your family's needs, and will it be a place |
| a large mistake. Moving to someplace where we just | | | | that you can be comfortable? If you can't answer |
| can't feel comfortable in our own space will do | | | | emphatically yes to all the above, it might be time for |
| nothing but pile a mountain of stress onto our already | | | | pause. |
| stressful lives. | | | | |