Love the Work You're With

Six Keys to Getting the Most Out of Your Current Job

As described below, these six ways of being can be of immeasurable benefit in helping you overcome negative patterns and allowing your spirit to soar at work. They are:

1. Follow Your Passion: There is an old saying that "if you do what you love, you'll never work a day on your life." The ideal job consists of four factors. Imagine them as overlapping circles. They are: what you do well; what you can get paid to do; what will enable you to grow and learn; what you love doing. The extent that these circles overlap is the extent that you have found your ideal job. The problem is that many people trade off passion for money. They scratch and struggle to climb the corporate ladder only to find at the end of their careers that it was leaning against the wrong house. Always start with passion.
2. Be Home: When we think of home usually a building or the place we grew up comes to mind. The use of the word "home" in the context of respiriting work, however, means the home within you. During a crisis it is that grounded and centered place within you that you hope to access when you count to ten and admonish yourself to "be cool" or "chill out." Three things you can do to find this quiet inner place are to: learn how to find your center; be present in the moment; let go of your compulsive attachment to achieving an outcome which actually blocks the natural performer who you are.