A secret of success is, love your job.
Joy is not just a word linked with business and work. Yet joy is the base of not only why I enjoy my work, but why the company I’ve help build is successful and rising.
Let me share my own example with you that my own career journey took me from joy to fear and then back to joy again. I fell in love with my job. I am working as software developer as a kid and followed that path with great energy and willpower. However, in the early days of my professional life, I found myself putting much time as possible on easy tasks, because I didn’t want to do it more. I didn’t want to be in the industry any longer. I had arrived at disappointment.
At that time for me getting back to joy was a long quest. I had to vary each and everything belongs to me to find that first happiness again. Part of that voyage caught up understanding what brought me joy, in the perspective of my job and company, and what brought fear.
There are some seniors colleagues available as teachers who just go through the motions and drag us through the objects in order to complete a required course, there are many companies and jobs and bosses that do the same exercise. That doesn’t mean you are bound to live with it. Avoid such fear-run workplaces. Quit those jobs without any delay. Ask your friends about their workplace, or about such companies they’ve known about or heard about where passion, pleasure, and human energy are respected above all else.
There is also another possibility that you should measure each and every expected chance of growth in your current organization before making final decision. If you do not already known with the various opportunities toward success, meet with your manager and ask him if there are opportunity further up the steps for which you could strive towards. If there are not, then ask for extra responsibilities and goals. You could also study new techniques and skills in your current capacity that can add a new approach to your job.
Although I most saw companies do not focusing on their own culture and end up with what I call a “default culture,” but there are also a few number of companies who are quite clear about what they are trying to achieve. Such organizations have a mission and a reason in what they do. The people who work there are not just focused on themselves, instead of those whom they serve. They are really working on something quite bigger than themselves. In those places, you will find that fear and pressure are not main motivators for getting to results. It’s a useful attitude if you have made friends over there, learn more about them or make friends with some of your other colleagues. Being with such people whom you also like will make working fun. Regard as building relationships with your customers also. These are the people you spend most of your daily life time with, even more than your family members so, learn more about them, what makes them tick, and how you can relate to them.
I learned to love my job and my work by relating it to joy: joy for our clientele, joy for the end customers of our products, joy for my team fellows, and self joy in what we were doing. Try to make workplace as a fun place to be. This does not mean ignoring your responsibilities, but rather, it means a new change in your approach so you don't see every job you do as a tiresome task. Doing your job with a more constructive attitude and focusing on the parts that are more fun for you will help cheer up your overall mood. Understand that your job does not define who you are, but your approach toward your job does. So be familiar with your overall mood when you are at work and if you don't like what you see, then as a last option change it. Only you have to control over your circumstances.
Many believe this kind of work focus can only arise in the non-profit globe. This couldn’t be more from the truth. There are booming purpose-driven personal and community corporations, large and small. They are still rare, though, so it won’t essentially be simple to find them, but it is value your time to chase this search. Some of you will be tending to work what I eventually did and start your own firm, with its own assignment and intention. Entrepreneurship for me was the enabler of a noble yet self-centered chase: I wished to create a company that I loved much more than employment. I created my own satisfying job, but it would only be satisfying to me if it were also worthwhile for those who worked around me.
How to love your job? It’s essential to find a job where learning is a necessity to success. Learning produce joy, in spite of of the industry you’re in. Become a student again. Read relevant books, study competitor organizations, and make bigger yourself to try new ideas. If you are in a industrial or a support role, volunteer for sales support coursework and watch how your business interrelates with its clientele. Sign up for trade show booth responsibility and learn what others in the world are looking for from firms like yours. Learn to present in front of others. Sign up to speak at meetings, and then go listen to other presenters. Find the ideas, the people and the companies that attract you.
You must listen what your heart sings and track on the way to those things. Never be frightened of hard work and remember that loving your job doesn’t mean you will be happy every time. Joy and happiness is not possible the same thing.
Joy is the sensation a fighter pilot gets when, after all the teaching and training, he lands an F-16 on the deck of a plane carrier in dark seas, strong storm, and zero visibility. Once the engine is quiet and the chocks are placed, he knows that the aircraft, the carrier, the flight deck team, and he are all safe and sound—and he can’t wait to do it again.
We all want joy in our daily work lives, in our down time, in our faith walks, in our kids’ schools, in our families, even in our nation. Mankind is wired to work on things bigger than there selves, to be in group of people with one another. It’s why we join teams, companies, and then work very hard and long to achieve a hard and indefinable shared goal.
I wish that kind of joy at work for you.
