Whether working as a retail salesperson, a registered nurse, a professor at a university, or even an accountant in a firm, loving your work is one of the most important steps toward maximizing productivity and fulfilling one’s dreams and goals.
If you don’t love your work, chances are, you’ll end up being a miserable person working in an office for the rest of your life without any sense of self-accomplishment. It might even be worse, and your dispositions at work will affect your situation at home and with your families and friends. In this video, we’ll discuss how to learn to love your work and work with the right mindset.
Self-actualization
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization, which happens to be at the top of his pyramid, is achieving one’s full potential, including creative activities. To reach this level in life, an individual must first be able to accomplish other things like physiological needs, safety needs, and of course, belongingness and love.
If you don’t love your work, refuse to look for an alternative, and refuse to learn to appreciate it, you’ll never become a better person. Even if you did, you’d end up miserable. We owe it to ourselves to find a job that we can fall in love with.
Practicing Gratitude
Self-fulfillment is a tricky process and hard to achieve, but practicing gratitude is a huge step towards it. No matter what you feel regarding your current job, despite it sometimes being difficult to think of the positives, or despite it being hard to remember why you took it in the first place, it’s still important to be grateful for your job. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you should put up with work you hate if you have other choices available.
Be grateful. Keep a gratitude journal or buy a post-it note for your office or workplace and every day, try to come up with something new to write and remind you of the good things you’re grateful for in this job. It can be anything from the amount you’re receiving that’s helping you with rent, the praise you’ve received from your boss, or even just the secretary smiling while she handed you a cup of coffee.
Think About the Gains
Even if your job isn’t something you see yourself doing your entire life, it’s okay to think of it as a stepping stone. Think of all the skills and knowledge that you’re gaining from experience in work and think about how they can and how they have made you a better person.
If you can’t think of any skills and knowledge that you’re gaining from your current work and if you absolutely hate it, then use it as motivation to find a new job.
Improve the Workplace
Valuing the people you work with, encouraging one another, taking much-needed breaks, and having fun with them once in a while is important for improving the workplace environment. Simple things like saying “thank you” to the co-worker who rarely smiles or buying the janitor who cleans your entire floor a cup of coffee are bound to build relationships that help you appreciate work more.
Remember, work isn’t just handing in the report by the end of the day or finishing the quota your supervisor expects you to finish on time. It also requires constant communication and building relationships with your co-workers.
Nothing is Perfect
Last but not least, it’s important to understand that you aren’t going to love and enjoy every single second of what you’re doing. Even world-famous athletes or big company CEOs earning millions in a month won’t love everything they do.
The same can be said for real life and love, where you won’t necessarily enjoy all the moments you spend with your loved ones, and it’s normal. There will always be highs and lows, and if you’re forcing yourself to love your job at all times, then you’ll end up focusing on the wrong things.
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