Blog post #77 of 365
Don't take that title at face value. What I mean to say is sometimes things are out of our hands. We can't control everything. We need to make a living and sometimes that means doing a job we are less than happy with. The trick is learning to be grateful for the living we are making and taking steps to improve anything we are lacking.
We can control only so much but the things we can control we should do at our very best. Take care of ourselves. Eat right. Rest enough. Move more. Love well. Learn everything we need to know and some more stuff just for fun. Laugh a lot. Don't be a jerk.
When we come to work we need to be ready to work. Complaining isn't making work easier. In fact it is probably making it worse.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Sometimes we don't want to do stuff but we must do it anyway. Having to do something doesn't mean we try any less than our very best. If we don't we usually have to do the thing we didn't want to do twice. Why would anyone want to do something they didn't want to do twice? Okay, now I'm just confusing myself.
Gordon says it just right... “Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”GBH
See being grateful make the ride less annoying. We are lucky to have the job even if it isn't our dream job. We are blessed with a spouse and children. They don't come easy but are so worth the effort. You never know if your spouse or your child will grow to be the exceptional one in a million or just an ordinary person. The world need ordinary people so what is wrong with that?
Find joy as often as you can. See the beauty in the simple every day things like conquering a fear, learning a skill or feeling the breeze. Understand nobody promised us an easy life but if we make the very best of what we are given and remember to be thankful we will never go wrong.
Don't take that title at face value. What I mean to say is sometimes things are out of our hands. We can't control everything. We need to make a living and sometimes that means doing a job we are less than happy with. The trick is learning to be grateful for the living we are making and taking steps to improve anything we are lacking.
We can control only so much but the things we can control we should do at our very best. Take care of ourselves. Eat right. Rest enough. Move more. Love well. Learn everything we need to know and some more stuff just for fun. Laugh a lot. Don't be a jerk.
When we come to work we need to be ready to work. Complaining isn't making work easier. In fact it is probably making it worse.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Sometimes we don't want to do stuff but we must do it anyway. Having to do something doesn't mean we try any less than our very best. If we don't we usually have to do the thing we didn't want to do twice. Why would anyone want to do something they didn't want to do twice? Okay, now I'm just confusing myself.
Gordon says it just right... “Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”GBH
See being grateful make the ride less annoying. We are lucky to have the job even if it isn't our dream job. We are blessed with a spouse and children. They don't come easy but are so worth the effort. You never know if your spouse or your child will grow to be the exceptional one in a million or just an ordinary person. The world need ordinary people so what is wrong with that?
Find joy as often as you can. See the beauty in the simple every day things like conquering a fear, learning a skill or feeling the breeze. Understand nobody promised us an easy life but if we make the very best of what we are given and remember to be thankful we will never go wrong.
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