Contentment in Work Life

There is a very old adage which says “Dictionary is the only place where SUCCESS comes before WORK.”

Work- It’s defined as an activity which keeps you engaged, which earns you bread for your livelihood and satisfies all your basic needs and paves a way for being luxurious too.

But Work is just that!!!

We all start working and get acquainted with a job when our academics are completed, probably we start taking that responsibility by early twenties or even lesser in many cases.
There are countless types of jobs people get assorted with. Which ever door one may enter, WORK is an occupation which keeps you occupied.

But the question here is……. HOW MANY OF US REALLY ARE ENJOYING THE JOB WE DO? At the end of day, how many of us go home really satisfied, happy and contented?

Each individual have their own perspective to define work, needs and level of satisfaction.

According to the Maslow’s hierarchy of need triangle, we have Physiological, Safety, Social, Ego, Self-actualization and Spiritual needs.
Physiological needs are such as basic necessities such as Food, Air, Shelter and an activity. This is just the biological balance and stable equilibrium.
Safety and security is a feeling of being secured to oneself with no threats, safety towards present and future may fall under this category.
Social needs are all about the social behavior at work place which includes intimacy between employees, their comfort level of interaction, conduct of peers etc.
Ego Needs – All of us are in need of respect & recognition. Ego is the want of respect for self and also the identification for one-self.
Self Actualization – is working for a purpose, personal growth and also realizing one’s potentiality. This is an active part where one realizes one’s functionality and delivers the job to a complete satisfaction. This also paves a way to personality development. It drives one forward and onwards.
Spiritual needs – Need for purity, need for feeling rightness, Sensation of closeness to destiny, justifying a role for edifying ones goals, It’s a part of human mind inclined towards the spirituality & philosophy.

So, Human needs towards work would all roll in different circles as explained above.

Many of us even after satisfying ones need in all the above sectors…move a step ahead to complain that the work is monotonous, dreary, tiresome, repetitive, uninspiring … etc.

But the true fact is that, a job seems to be uninteresting when you stop yourself to be innovative, when there is a cease in the process of thinking in a different direction, pioneering new ideas, stopping one-self to look at the positive outcomes and growth prospects in distinctive & diversified manner. A very significant reason is ATTITUDE.

Most of us carry closed loops in our mind. We shut all the doors of a room and look at only one direction and expect sunrays to rush in, star’s to twinkle in day-light.
We actually don’t see the world and take it as they are, but the take the things as we are. So that’s the reality. We expect everything to go according to our intentions, our desires and ambitions. We never give it a thought… that may be my calculations might also be wrong. We tend to do mistakes and we block the ways to re-think otherwise and seal it off only with our factuality’s and assume it to be perfect.
This mental approach is universally true even at our personal life perspective too.

Open up, grow and think for an improvement, believe that you can do something innovative, imagine to think differently and what actually can make you feel pleased about the place and bring a smile on your face.

Have fun at work; wish everyone as you are entering in into your office. Read some inspiring thought to start off your day. Be enthusiastic, always keep in mind that people may forget what you said, but they can never forget the way you made them feel. So being motivated and carrying that zeal towards life just not keeps you in pace, but reflects and attracts other people to flock around you.

Be engaged in diversified activities – Multi tasking keeps you more active and multi tasks bestows you with appraisal, recognition and more verve.
Blend with others - Mingle with people, speak to them intimately. Be kind, humble and respect them. Socialization keeps off from being boredom.
Take short breaks, go for a short walk.
Try to discover and know something new everyday.
Work hard – Work is just like maintaining a garden which needs lot of water, but in the form of perspiration. Reminisce that no garden is built sitting under a shade and claiming Oh! How beautiful!
Love the job you have taken – Love gives you ultimate satisfaction. Adore the work you do, it returns back with tons of happiness. After all… our ancestors were not fools to say Work is Worship. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. Pay justice to the place you work, for you have earned your bread by it. Let it leave a feeling of being worthwhile.
Life is just a mask, when you uncover it… you get hard work behind it. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. n