Enrich Your Work / Enrich Your Workplace
A Spiritual Environment in the workplace begins with each of us. As business owners and executives, the beliefs, attitudes and values we hold about our own work and it's meaning and purpose, shape the culture we create for our organization. On May 5 groundbreaking author Tom Zender is our guest for a teleseminar Improve Profits/Enrich Lives: The Economic Power of a Spiriual Work Environment. I hope you can join us.
Kahlil Gibran said, “Work is love made visible.”
It isn’t based on any external feedback or dependant upon what’s going on at the worksite. Stay focused on your values and you can remain positive regardless of what is happening around you.
Step 2. Take personal responsibility for your experience of life as work. No one can “make” you feel upset or unappreciated. But, you can allow it. It’s up to you to acknowledge your own worth and importance and to reframe every experience as an opportunity for something greater in your life. This includes trusting your internal wisdom and going to a higher level of awareness for your own answers.
Shift your attention from “What’s in it for me?” to “How can I serve others by giving my gifts and talents through my work?” We each have our unique contribution to make to the world. Martha Graham said, “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”
How can you as the leader, recognize and honor the contribution of each person in your company or work group? Do you have an incentive program, a peer-to peer traveling trophy? When things are running smoothly, do you take the time to recognize those who are making it happen?
For you to truly transform the experience of spiritual and meaningful contribution on the job, you need to release outdated organizational paradigms and individual beliefs about what’s possible and what matters.
In personal transformation it means letting go of one reality to embrace another. It may seem uncomfortable to adopt a new idea or belief, but the reward is a shift in how you view the world and the results you can produce. You have to trust that your meaning and purpose are driven by a higher wisdom and that life will “catch you” when you take the “leap” to follow your dreams.
Suggested Action Steps: 1. Make a list of all the wonderful ways you are contributing to the world, your organization, your employees and your customers. 2. Make a list of all the activities, events, people or tasks that drain you of your energy and creativity, and cause you to question your purpose. Look for solutions to transform, modify or avoid those situations! 3. Create an acknowledgment and reward system for yourself just because you’re you! 4. Develop a plan to acknowledge and praise those around you: employees, co-workers, your family and even those vendors who make your life easier, safer, more profitable or more joyful. Until Next Time, Marla |