Part of the fascination, I have in addressing the workplace as a primary topic is a feeling that this task is synergistic with my mission of ministry. Since we spend a large portion of our lives working; one clear way I can benefit other’s is adding fulfillment to your professional life.

If I can help you be happier in your career, then I have enriched your life. So this assignment is actually an extension of what I see as my ministry to help others. If I help you get more satisfaction out of your career, it helps me be on track with my own.

Being fulfilled in your work and being successful at doing it are hand in glove propositions. Being effective at one contributes to the other.

 Who will do their best job; if they do not gain satisfaction out of their work? No one!….  It’s like asking someone to climb Mount Everest when they don’t like the mountains. It’s not going to work. If you are a swimmer who is mountain climbing; that won’t work. If you are mountain climber who is swimming; that won’t work either. – – – Sometimes, what we are doing is not a fit for our skill-set or personality. If that’s the case, quit trying to put a square peg in a round hole and find something that better “fits” your talents, abilities and interests.”

However, most times it is not a job re-positioning, we need. If we don’t address the difficulties that hold us back and haunt us in our current situation. We are not likely to overcome them in a new situation.

     It’s a funny picture of the cow over-looking his own grassy meadow, trying to reach the single blade of grass on the other side of the fence. While it may be a funny picture; it is a sad reality, all too often. Some People never find fulfillment, because they are always looking for it somewhere else.  Fulfillment is most often found where we are at. And then grows into something more, somewhere else because we outgrow the situation, we mastered.

If we run from problems in our current station: We will most time find them in different faces and different places, only bigger than before.

So how do you get more fulfillment at work? Here are 10 good tips

1. If you decide you will be happy; you will be. Go to work with a good attitude

2. Work on empowering beliefs. Work on the inner dialogue inside that nobody hears but you.

3. Put a few things on your desk and your work area that make you smile.

4. Change up your schedule with mood lifters. Schedule a lunch with a friend or a child. Bring a photo to a meeting that makes everybody laugh.

5. Remember the power of purpose. Design as many of your workplace activities as possible.  

6. Remember that boredom is never fun. Challenge yourself.

7. Make it a point to be friendly. As a general rule; if you are friendly with people, they will be friendly with you.

8. Make each day count by making the most of each moment.

9. Think good thoughts about even those you do not like. This way, you will keep them from living rent free in your head.

10. Do the next right thing always and believe that you are painting a masterpiece; when all you can see is the single stroke of the paintbrush.

Always give more than you take. Do not worry about giving out. There is a providential plan in place that guarantees that givers will always have more to give. —- “Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full–pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.” Jesus

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