Your fondness
for your work – people may query you on this aspect deliberately but knowingly
in a vague manner with the basic intention of discerning the direction you are heading
to. Your response could well be Oh! Not at all’, ‘Not a great deal’, ‘Fairly
good’, ‘A lot’ or ‘Totally’ if it is intended to be straight forward. Perhaps you
could compare things by way of an unserious comment like ‘In fact, I prefer
things easy but here they are not cool’. It is also likely that you start
reflecting over facets that inspire you.
Hypothetically
speaking, let us suppose that you are not happy with your job and are trying to
look for another one. If at all you find one, will you be certain that things
would be to your liking there? The issue of contentment is contingent purely on
your attitude and hence your baby. If that be so, how will you make certain
that you do not generate the same situation for yourself at the new workplace?
If you do not have a penchant for a particular work, you will always harbour a
tendency to get fed up; dissatisfaction that will invariably follow will be the
very cause of your breakdown and eventual collapse. Therefore, a pertinent
issue that arises is how you devise a work that is to your liking.
All job details
amplify various attributes, abilities and proficiencies that are necessary for
that particular appointment, but such explanation by themselves are not
sufficient. You need to think about various other features and judge if the
work and workplace environment goes with you or not. It is you who is making a choice
and thus the decision also has to be yours. If you ask for an honest response
to the vexed question of your suitability for a specific job, you will get an honest
answer, provided you are not influenced by extraneous factors. You have to look
within yourself and cogitate. The process may not necessarily be time
consuming, but has to be deliberate. Some queries that you must raise with
yourself are:
· Quantum
of freedom of action you seek at your workplace.
· Degree
of comfort if you are supervised and supervised.
· Level
of comfort enjoyed in the midst of co-workers.
· Amount
of support and encouragement that you seek.
· Measure
of responsibility that you can shoulder and feel happy doing so.
· Level
of ingenuity and initiative that your workplace offers.
· Exclusivity
levels offered by your workplace.
· Your
confidence in yourself to achieve set objectives.
· Keenness
for new openings and breaks.
· Likelihood
of stirring up sensitivities to improve work outputs.
· Your
work penchants and fascinations.
· Any
particular person under whom you seek to work.
· Gelling
of your organisational objectives with your personal goals.
Professionals in
the field of human resources vouch for workers who are sufficiently eligible,
satisfactorily experienced and passably competent. Their outlook also has to be
positive by all counts. Such employees stand chances of success much more
vis-a-vis other types, particularly those possessing very extraordinary qualifications
and imposing references.
Mind-sets and
dispositions imply a positive attitude towards work; therefore, discernment of
what and whatever you are fond of is an inescapable requirement if you want to
remain happy and contented. More importantly, the ways and means to achieve
them should also be clear to you. Satisfaction is not a commodity that can be
supplied; it is something that has to be carried along by you and nobody else.
Sometime or the
other, we would have encountered worrywarts and complainers at workplace. They
are the lot that makes you squirm and recoil. Well, they do deserve some
sympathy because eventually they are headed to doom. But the issue is how can
you bypass or ignore such negative people and be able to maintain your zeal and
motivation? There are possibilities that some components of your work are
disinteresting and hence they do not inspire you. But there will also be some
aspects that inspire and egg you on. What are those aspects? You need to be
aware of them so that their range and scope are enlarged on a day to day basis
and bring about a diminution in the list of those that you find boring. And how
do you do that? You need to look far ahead of your basic penchant to be
convincing. Imagine this – what would things be like if everybody had access to
whatever they dreamt of or yearned for? How would things be if working paid
positive dividends to every single soul?
So addressing
the basic question – are you on Cloud Nine at your work? Put concisely, the how
of it lies in taking the following actions:
· Ascertaining what you actually
crave for: You need to identify various features,
attributes and ideals that in your view are the most significant at present.
You need to have an aim, a vision, and a goal. For the man sailing through life
with no purpose, every wind is the wrong wind. Never ever forget that your
destiny will be frequently met in the very tracks you avoid trudging on. If you
give food to your dreams, a time will come when your dreams will nourish you.
· Opt for them:
There is absolutely no harm in demanding what you seek. You should inch forward
to attaining them. It will not be presumptuous on your part to believe that you
genuinely deserve them. Thereafter, go ahead with full steam; impediments en
route should be spotted and eliminated. What you should not lose sight of is
the fact that if you do not look for what you like, you will never find it,
leaves aside tasting it because what is unsought goes undetected.
· Do not engage yourself in aspects
that you detest: You should realize that there are
options available to you and that there is no dearth of them. Windows of
opportunity should be anticipated and you should not wait for someone else to
open them for you.
The most
relevant point that should be noted is that you are indeed worthy of deriving happiness
from your work and experiencing the contentment that it advances. Nobody else
can gauge and quantify your own success. If at all others do it, you have
nothing to gain because it is simply their lookout. Remember that success is
always at the mercy of effort and that there is no success without toil and difficulty.
And of course, eagerness and self-trust are its secrets.
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