Enjoy Working

Till 14 Feb 2010, we have only 24 hours in a day and hope in upcoming few years it will continue to have the same. Now just think, “How do we spend these 24 hours of each day?” All we have to earn money for survival, so we have to spend about 9 hours at our work places. To maintain good health we need to sleep 6 to 7 hours. For traveling and shopping we are spending average 3 hours a day. So … “How many hours now are we spending for us?” … its only about 5 residue hours per day.

That means we have only 21 per cent of a day with us. And all we know, Life is beautiful … It’s a precious gift of God … Enjoy the life to the fullest … now the most crucial question arise, “How should we enjoy life in these 5 hours?” So, we need to gather more time to enjoy our life.

We spend about 38 per cent of a day at our work places; some times much more than that. We have to use that time to enjoy; otherwise life will be miserable and success will be detachable from us. As per famous Social Reformer Henry Ward Beec, “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

So, we have to extract joy from our work. If we decide to work, we might as well enjoy it. All we need to follow or implement certain things to enjoy it …

• Make up your mind to feel good at work...

  You’ll be surprised how much better you’ll like it if you just make a deliberate decision to enjoy it.

• Keep in mind the services you are providing people through your work... The job you do helps other people. Now that is a good feeling, isn't it.

• Challenge yourself at work... Set and pursue attainable goals. Always try to do a better job. Stretch yourself and your abilities. Grow!!! That attitude can make even a dull job exciting.

• Concentrate on the good things about your job... Write out a list of things you like about your job.

• And last but not the least, Maintain good and friendly relationships with your boss and colleagues... Getting along with and liking the people you work with will make your job more enjoyable.

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

- Colette

Mind Control

… to succeed

Need to work hard with full commitment … a lot of concentration is required for that … and mind control is the key for concentration.

Now the question came, "how to control our mind?", which is not at all an easy task … but if we able to control our mind then the rest of the job will be very easy for us.

All problems are caused by the mind, by the desires arising in it. It is not easy to control the mind and keep it away effectively from desire. If we ask the mind to think of an object, it seems to obey us for a moment, but soon it takes its own course, wandering off.

The mind of a sensible person must be kept under comfort control. Thinking and non-thinking must be governed by our will. Only then can we claim that it is under our control, that we are masters of our consciousness.

Emotions are always capturing our mind and convincing us by their irrational logic. When work does not thrill, the boredom emotion make us feel tired, restless and make us unable to concentrate; we feel disturbed and disappointed. This kind of situations can be handled by focusing the common sense on the emotion.

The secret of control is to allow our own common sense to take over by stilling the emotions. That happens when the common sense evaluates the questions “What is my motive?” or “What am I looking for?” or “Is it really essential?” or “What is its merit and what are its demerits?” Recognition of that feeling will help to still the emotion.

Caution .. Normally our common sense is not in control of our mind. The most powerful emotion in the system takes charge and we usually reflect the convictions of that emotion. Sooner or latter we will be so enveloped by that frame of mind that we will feel there is no other way of looking at a problem. It takes a lot of practice for our common sense to view that emotion from the outside.

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

- Budha