Are you working because you care passionately or just because you have to be someplace?
People who care work with passion: They are recognized by pride in the quality of their work, joy in the successes of their company; sharing in achieving success together; helping someone else be successful; anger at not being able to "do it right".
Those who must be someplace can be seen watching the clock, being indifferent to others, not caring about success or failure, who are characterized by, "Why do your best when your worst will get you by?"
Do not waste one single day by just showing up for a paycheck. Find a work about which you can be passionate and then contribute because you care. Your passion will be apparent to those around you but more importantly, you will find a personal fulfillment of working with passion toward goals about which you care.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine….. All work is empty save when there is love. - Kahlil Gabran |
