Transforming work into pleasure

      You may have different sensitivities towards your work, depending upon what type of work you do. Does going to work inspire you or does it scare you? Does your outlook have a role to play in your work? Or is it that your postures about work are contingent solely on what you do?

Since work and workplace are a significant part of our daily routine & life, it is essential that we direct efforts to make them delightful experiences. As human beings, we have the capacity to alter our outlooks, so there is no reason why we should not be able to do likewise in other aspects of our life. Our work is an important arena that is time and again disposed to some, though modest alterations.

Is work a load and a liability? If you let things go to an extent that you are completely ensnared in an output mentality, rest assured that you will remain preoccupied with your unending things-to-do catalogue. And if you allow things to continue in the same state, it is likely that you will make attempts to determine your feelings about your own self by the quantum of what you have earned on that particular day. If you permit them beyond a point, your work will assume the shape and form of an encumbrance. The result will evidently be that you derive no pleasure from your work and instead wait for things to finish so that you receive monetary compensation for your toil.

The question is, “Can your work be a delightful experience and a gratifying happening?” Is it possible to create a mental shift that can facilitate an outlook that makes you eager to go to work? In other words, how can you make your work more pleasurable? Here is how you can do so:

· Concentrate on upbeat aspects: You may be doing several things and they are bound to have optimistic and off-putting facets. If the outcome happens to be the most encouraging feature of your work or if somebody can benefit from your endeavours, you ought to direct your efforts accordingly. When you concentrate your efforts on upbeat aspects of any activity, you will derive pleasure.

· Avoid excessive pondering:  If you think too much, you will encounter problems that were not there in the first place. You must act rather than mull because excessive thinking invariably lead to worries and degrade things.

· Follow a healthy lifestyle:  Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle should be on the top of your agenda. You will always remain rejuvenated and resultantly it will make a great difference to you and your work. You will enjoy your work.

· Hook up with your true self:  Have you ever contemplated over the reasons why you duck work? What is that makes your work a grind? Surely, they will have something to do with your principal philosophies about yourself. Are there any issues related to your work that are at divergence with them or your inner individuality nous? Having debated them, you must afford yourself time and opportunity to hook up with yourself; this will infuse happiness in both your life and work.

· Pursue excellence:  Every task will be hard slog if you do not exert yourself to your full capacity. A task done well will give you contentment. You should also adhere to utmost criteria and not fall prey to any inducements. If you autograph your work with excellence, your self-esteem and self-worth will get a boost; and so will be the case with your pleasure.

· Concentrate on what counts:  Your mind is meant to wander, but if you can exercise control over it, the contributions that you make at work will be tremendous. You will be able to achieve perfection. But if you waste time on valueless preoccupations, you will drain yourself unnecessarily. Work is always a pleasure if you add worth to anything that you do and you achieve this by concentrating on aspects that actually matter.

Remember that your worth is dependent on the worth that you generate. With a correct outlook, you can enjoy working, even if your job does not happen to be your dream job. The bottom line is believing in yourself; and that implies having faith in your capabilities because if you do not place trust in yourself, you can neither be happy nor successful. And last but not the least, you will be as happy as you make your mind to be because pleasure is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions.