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Work is hard. But there is a way to make it good.
In his last Vocari presentation in the US this year, Michael Frost explores what Victor Frankl discovered carried him through his unspeakable torture in three WWII concentration camps. We can use this same truth to bring perseverance and even passion to our daily grind.
Phoning it in
Source: Seth Godin’s Blog
This was sort of shocking, at least to me:
I was talking to a religious leader, someone who runs a congregation. She made it clear to me that on many days, it’s just a job. A job like any other, you show up, you go through the motions, you get paid.
I guess we find this disturbing because spiritual work should be real, not faked.
But isn’t your work spiritual?
I know doctors, lawyers, waiters and insurance brokers who are honestly and truly passionate about what they do. They view it as an art form, a calling, and an important (no, an essential) thing worth doing.
In fact, I don’t think there’s a relationship between what you do and how important you think the work is. I think there’s a relationship between who you are and how important you think the work is.
Life’s too short to phone it in.