When working more produces MORE money but LESS family happiness

Today we see that there are many family homes that despite having financial stability, productive work and a significant amount of money to cover household expenses and give one another sporadic taste, are not happy with their family life.

 What is this about?

Well, if we think a little, the economic recession of several countries, using my country Venezuela as an example, have the effect that the pillars of households have to dedicate extra time to their jobs in order to survive day to day, and not only this, but to be able to sustain the basics, sometimes it is required to have more than two jobs depending on the remuneration they receive, or the family burden they have to maintain, thus covering a large part of their time.

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What effects does it produce?

We could list several of them in different topics.

Effects as a person and for your own well-being

• The daily routine could become something of great weight for you that would affect your mood, your health and the well-being in your family.
• People under stress are discouraged from training and developing as professionals who once had goals set on the road, and who have been affected by the economic barrier.

Effects on the youngest or children

• They stop developing and training professionals in institutions because of the need to work at an early age.
• Education about the values ​​that come from home is lost due to the lack of time that parents have for their children.
• The lack of family attention can cause psychological problems to children during their development, keeping in mind that they need more love than material things. In addition to this, the same lack of attention to their children, have an impact on their risk of being influenced by society, so that their insecurity leads them to suffer physical damage or bullying.

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Effect on your marriage and as a father or mother

• Stress levels are high, so the behavior, lack of attention to your partner or spouse can significantly affect the emotional bond you have, and could in turn, end up separating.
• It could lose the authority it has with family members by losing the values ​​and norms that every home must have to maintain balance and therefore have control and participation to face situations or problems for which some member or all family is presenting.

Comments and advice

While there is no effective method to solve this root problem by which many family households face, if we have different ways to appease a little or avoid the degree of complexity of this phenomenon from which we can not escape.

1. You must keep in mind that your family and especially your children do not necessarily need high-value things to feel loved, dedicating them a time to listen to them, advise them and reason between them reinforce the father-son bond they want to have.
2. We reason in the fact that the balance begins within each of us, and this can be achieved with good planning, organization and execution of the methods and activities that can be done collectively.
3. Let's not confuse humility with being economically poor, we should feel at tastes with certain external parameters such as luxuries and internal as the peace and tranquility that we can have, in this way we reflect the balance we want to achieve.
4. Remember that when we make a choice in a hurry because of the pressure, we will be changing our future, and that of our surroundings. While everything is possible, every effect and consequence has its cause. First determine what the changes will be within your family, if these are mostly proportional to what will bring you as a benefit, or if the opposite happens.
5. While we have some time to administer in: Planning, do not take work home, optimize diligence, delegate and ensure family control as a parent and essentially share that time with your loved ones.

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"Happiness is not in things. Happiness is a light that grows within us and is reflected in what we do "