Words like job, work and paycheck take up a lot of space in our collective unconscious these days while ideas like profession, fulfillment and reward are all but forgotten.
Shortly after the economic collapse, somewhere around the fifth or fifteenth round of Bad Unemployment Reports and Home Foreclosures the notion of loving what you do and doing what you love was sacrificed in favor of survival.
Hard Concrete Examples of day to day living replaced optimistic and joyful examples of loving the life you live between 9 to 5.
I say it's time to get back to the Work of Day Dreaming. "If you can't be with the (job) you love, honey, love the (job) you're with". Pretend that you just got the job after a long and tedious search...you made it to the final interview and nailed it! They hired you for this job because nobody can do it better. Start each day accomplishing your least favorite tasks first and move on to the things that you love (or remembered enjoying) about your job when you first started. This way, when you leave the office for home, you will end on a high note, leaving work that you enjoy, not tasks that you dread.
While you can't control the economy and you can't control decisions that are made in board rooms you can control the way that you respond. Sometimes it's not really the man that's bringing us down, it's the person we face in the mirror instead.
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