Decompression

It's Just A Job. Why Make It A Burden?

  • Apr 28, 2024
It's Just A Job. Why Make It A Burden?

Have you ever experienced this? Going to work until you're so bored that you feel like work is a burden.
Have you ever had such an idea? In this company to stay a little longer , and then quit to do what you like.


Volume to the flying colleagues, endless overtime, no hope of promotion and salary increase, colleagues' denigration, the supervisor's distrust, all the piles and pieces of the workplace people are overwhelmed.


You can't roll and win, and you can't lie down and get even.
So, along with the endless inward roll, the inner more and more anxious, hairline higher and higher, sleep worse and worse.
In fact, it doesn't have to be this way.

Work is part of life, not all of it
Work is what keeps us alive financially, but there's more to life than just work.


Life also has a hot meal after work;
Life also has weekends with family and friends;
Life also has the leisure time alone;
There is more to life than what is in front of you, there are poems and faraway places.
Most people work but for the crumbs of silver a few taels, even the bottom of the wish can not be satisfied, talk about what ambition and life ideals?

Hold fast to your heart, do not lose yourself in the work, to bind invisible shackles to their own hearts.


Once, I was working hard to choke, until the moment I walked into the hospital because of overloaded work.


Suddenly awakened, the original themselves in the pursuit of the so-called value, has accidentally lost their own.
When facing work again, there is less anxiety and more candor and calmness.

Mo Yan once said that he began to write for the purpose of eating three meat dumplings a day, buy watches and leather shoes to chase a beautiful girl, but writing, he realized that he also wanted to achieve more levels of goals.


In fact, think about it, is not it so? Work is to make money, money is not for a better life?
The so-called ideal, the so-called ambition, but in the process of making money incidental value.

Can earn of course better, can not earn the time to learn from Mo Yan, set a goal within reach to work hard, maybe the water will come to fruition?


After all, not everyone can be like Wang Jianlin set a small goal with the play like.


Work is to create value, not consume themselves
In fact, what determines the value of work is not the trivial things, but thinking about how to fully commit, create benefits and value.
Don't think of work as a thing that has to be done, do the small things in front of you, is loyal to yourself and to life.


Work is a practice, why be serious in every way
Kazuo Inamori said in "The Way of Life": work is a practice, as long as you do work hard every day to cultivate a noble personality, a good life will also be within reach.
Where people need to stay away from the mortal world, the workplace is the best place to practice.
Everyone wants to do their own satisfaction, want to do their favorite job.

There is no good or bad industry, no job is expensive or cheap, the ideal job may only exist in their own spiritual world, can not see, can not touch, can not get. All we can do is to recognize a line and then dive into it, and do our best to do it well.


Looking back, in my career, there are a hundred times I want to give up the idea of quitting.
But it's not all about the five buckets of rice.

We have a wrong perception: play and work are opposites, irreconcilable between the two, only one or the other.


Treat work as a friend
Instead of working begrudgingly and complaining angrily at the same time, why don't you calm your mind and get along with your work like a friend?


The Richest Man in Babylon says: Treat your work like a friend and you'll be the luckiest man alive.

Find your own interests:
Find your own areas of interest in your work, learn what you are interested in through self-reflection, career tests, etc., and then adjust yourself according to your points of interest so that you can learn to enjoy your work.

Clarify your strengths and weaknesses:
Make a self-assessment of yourself to find out what your strengths and weaknesses are, and either build on your strengths or rise to the occasion.

Identify your values:
Through our supervisors and colleagues, we can be clear about our own value in the team, and then according to the value points we can create, do more things that are conducive to our own values, and pass on our values successfully.


Respect your work
If the job is based on you is to survive, then we should cherish it even more.
If you hate your current job but are not capable of finding something you like better, then try to respect your job.
I once read a fable
A master drove two horses to pull a large carload of goods, one of the horses walked well, the other horse walked and looked around, then the master moved the goods from the slower car to the faster one, so the horse moved forward briskly, and it caught up with the faster horse and said: look how hard you work, the harder you do it, the more people want to torture you.


Later, when they reached their destination, the owner said, Since I can pull the cart with only one horse, what do I need to keep two horses for? Why don't I just keep one horse properly and slaughter the other one, which is lazy, and get a fur?


If you don't respect your own work, who will respect you?
Material determines the superstructure, while enjoying the work to bring you the material feedback, while complaining about the work.
Then, not the job delayed you, but you are sorry for the job.

Look around you whether there is a group of such people:
Work every day like a chicken blood, work efficiency is very high people are him; time off work, run the fastest is also him.
After socializing with clients, he will return to the company to write reports.
Their diligence and hard work do not need to be forced.

They believe from the bottom of their hearts that work is to create, not to consume, and they treat work as a friend, love it and respect it. Create high-value returns in limited time.


Time is limited, spend your limited time on high value things
Make plans and goals for your work and use your limited time to accomplish it


Stay enthusiastic and focused at work; don't take work home with you after work
Learn to leverage your strengths at work, and stay flexible and adaptable at all times


Maintain the initiative of work, do not passively accept tasks and instructions


In short, work makes people grow, but it takes a long time to realize the meaning of work.
Treat work as a friend, as a life practice rather than a burden.
Find pleasure in your work so as to enhance your value and enjoy the happiness brought by work and life.