What’s your favorite part of your job?
What specifically are you looking forward to this week? What gets your juices flowing? What do you brag to your friends about? What makes the time fly by?
One way I like to start the week is to remind myself why I am doing what I do.
Work is a messy place for most of us. A mix of the rewarding and the maddening. Sometimes it feels like the maddening aspects are taking over.
If we can catch ourselves feeling discouraged, overwhelmed, unhappy, or stressed before too much time goes by, we have a better chance to take evasive action.
We can begin the week by reminding ourselves of what we love about our work. Why we took the job. What we’re trying to get out of it.
Even if our rationale wasn’t anything particularly noble, personally motivating or sexy, remembering that we took the job in order to pay the bills (if that was your rationale), can help us maintain a positive perspective in the face of even the most difficult days on the job.
As you jump into this week, take a moment to note at least one thing that you either love about what you do or that you know makes this job worth keeping and bringing your best game to.
On your side,
– Karl
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