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View Work  as Steps to Achievement & Satisfaction!

The word “work” can convey wonderful feelings and images…

Think a “work of art” describing something of special beauty or “life’s work” as the pride and satisfaction we feel in long term personal and professional accomplishments.

Work can indeed be wonderful.

For other people, “work” means misery, difficulty and pain.

Anything associated with “work” must be avoided at all cost.

“Work” is by nature unattractive and distasteful.

“Work” deprives us of fun and enjoyment.

Habitually Happy people embrace very different perspectives. They view “Work” as steps to achievement and accomplishment. They love to achieve and accomplish and they always try to enjoy their work.

Habitually happy people decide what they are going to do and then they decide how they are going to enjoy it.

They know viewing something they have to do as difficult, dreary or distasteful allows their attitudes work against them. They always ally their attitudes to support their goals and decisions.

View work as steps to achieving your goals, relish and enjoy each step along the way and you will never have to toil again.

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Happiness And Work

Happiness comes from a job well done, from knowing we’ve accomplished something of value in a positive and joyous way. Even repetitive, mundane tasks can be made beautiful by the spirit in which we address them. Joy in all we do is something we can choose to cultivate.

The best way to do anything well is to cultivate a love for it.

It makes no sense at all to have our attitudes in conflict with the actions we must take to achieve our goals. That’s a sign we need to change what we’re doing, change how we feel about it, or both.

Excellence is a function of the attention, care and concern we give to what we do. Mediocre results from mediocre efforts bring little joy or satisfaction. We can choose to excel and do well through the attention, care and concern we extend to our work.

Happiness can come from doing an ordinary job extraordinarily well and taking pride in our achievements. Happiness can come from achieving something we value and celebrating our success.

Happiness comes from the joyous spirit of attention, care and concern with which we can choose to address our work.

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