Work that Fills You with Energy!

Some people, or maybe even most people talk a bout how much of a drag it is to go to work... I, however, have found a profession that I look forward to going to each and every day and even think about it always when I'm not there. Why is that, that for some people, they just go to work because that it what they have to do while others go to work because they "get to do" what they've chosen to do every day? Why isn't it the same way for everyone? Are there simply not enough of the preferred jobs to go around, or what?

I think that maybe the only way to get an answer to this question is to utilize my job. No, I'm serious... All day, every day (that is the weekdays), I go into schools (really just one school per year and it may be that I go the same school, as that is my job) and help the students there to discover what it is that they love to do. They may already know what they love to do, and that's fine--I will just help them discover more ways to do the thing they already love to do.

So, let me rephrase my first question (or maybe just repeat the same question...): why is it not the case that everyone loves their job? Seeing as how there are school counselors advocating for students in schools and helping them to discover and chase the job of their dreams, why haven't all of the students in the USA discovered their passion and the job that they will love to do?

Why aren't you happy in your job?

What can I do to help you to be happier? Happier in your job and happier in life (for most people, their job is or has become their life...), won't you just let me help you?

It's not too late; it's never too late.

So, what do you say? Want to get happier?

JPS

Desire and Motivation

We all desire something and almost all of us are motivated to one end or the other...

Where does that desire or where does that motivation come from?

Some desires are completely inexplicable like your desire to choose the red shirt instead of the blue shirt or you desire the green bracelet over the purple one; you can't explain why--in fact, you don't even know why yourself!

Motivations, on the other hand, almost always have some sort of foundation or rationale behind them and you could probably explain why this and why not that... Motivations are easier to explain. You might even be able to trace the reasons back in your life and probably can even explain it back before your birth--"My mom and dad knew this and then they taught it to me, and now I know it too and want to keep doing it" or "This goes back in my family for generations and I won't be the generation that doesn't keep doing it also..."

Maybe, though, it's just deeper than that: "I feel that it's right" or "I've prayed about this and know that it's true." Sometimes it's not just a matter of preference or even of history, but it's a conviction that you have that goes so deep that you know that you couldn't ever not believe it.

Let's look at the flip-side though or the reverse side: Why don't you want to do that?

That's a little harder to explain for most people. You can say the negative of each reason, though, for your negative desire or motivation--I can't explain why I don't, but I just don't--it's inexplicable. I don't want that just like my father and my father's father didn't want that... Or, I just feel that it's wrong or I know that it's wrong.

Let's ask, now, how to get a new desire or how to be motivated? I think that this is a question or a problem that all of us, or almost all of us, struggle with. How can I create a new desire or how can I flip a switch and be motivated when I wasn't before?

I won't presume to be able to answer this for everybody or even anyone--you tell me! How can or do you do it?

JPS

Action or Reaction

Stuff happens; we all know that.

The question is: Are you going to react to the situation or can you calmly an collectedly act with poise and well-thought-out and logical, maybe even already-thought-out plans (that's really the best way to go--act with a plan that you've already thought of and maybe pondered on before, maybe even for a long time...). That way you won't just be reacting to the situation. That doesn't mean that you have to think of every single possible situation and make a plan for what you'd do in in all the varying and different situations.

This isn't just my thought or my pondering vision of the way things would be--I've gleamed this from many different thinkers and wise men.

Act, don't react!

JPS