Job Satisfaction

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About Enjoyment

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Life is a process and in life we do processes Something is given to us as an input We do some actions on the given input And we produce some output Input is never 100% in our control. But, the quantity and quality of the benefits depends upon how the output of a process is perceived by the receiver.

The output of a process and Benefits of the output of the process are two completely different things

Even though input is not in your control It is expected that you control the output By your will, skills, and hard work You can try and influence that to a great extent.

But, the benefits are are not that straight forward Benefits are always about perceptions.

Managing output of a process where you have control may be easier. But managing perception is never easy.

No matter what is the quality of output If a receiver has a negative impression about you, your team, your company, and your product then it may be futile to try to convince.

If blocker in the receiver is knowledge then you can try. But, if the blocker is as subtle as ideology, philosophy, blind faith, eroded trust then how do you convince the benefits of the output of your work?

If we live a conscious life then input for our actions can be filtered and purified. Actions can be improved and output can be most probable as desired.

But, even with the highest consciousness and the best output you may not deliver the benefits as expected.

If we want to control the uncontrollable (benefits) And let go of the controllable (actions) in your life Then life is going to be full of boredom, rejection, loneliness, tiredness, and frustrations.

And all this lead to a search for other means of enjoyments That is why for most Friday is beautiful and Monday is stressful.

Reflection on benefits and output of our actions helps us improving our actions it also helps improving input criteria But how to do it if all the time focus is fear of failure?

It is easy to say keep eye on the goal and work hard But practicality if all the time you remain obsessed about goal and benefits to others You will miss life, you miss the process, you miss the game, and finally you may miss the output and benefits.

Whether in life or in business If I know what is the purpose of business what is the purpose of my role What I am supposed to do, Then acquired the right skills to do the work at hand Then why should I keep the goal always in my head all the time? Cannot I do it playfully?

No matter how much trained we are If we are always on high alert If we are always working under the cloud of fear of failure We are going to get broke very soon With all money in our bank Is this what we want to earn at the end of the month or year?

Just think about who is happier A musician who is playing to make the audience happy or a musician who is playing to enjoy his best

A sportsman who want to ensure that his team should win or a sportsman who is playing his best.

A project manager who wants to get five-star rating from his customer or a manager who does his best to deliver what is needed.

A person who prepares food to demonstrate his culinary skills or a person who is putting his best to make nutritious food.

A soldier who is fighting his enemy to demonstrate his bravery or a person who is ready to die in the war and never bother what happens after his death.

Whether you are a manager or musician, artists or scientist, employee or employer, daily wage worker or contractor, soldier or a farmer If you always focus on the benefit then stress is part of your life To create happiness for other and make money for your family do not earn miseries for yourself.

Whether it is reading or walking, Doing accounting work or managerial work Doing research or creating a piece of art Sooner or later we need to learn, how to keep money, recognition, other’s happiness aside

Sooner we need to learn how to enter into the game of life Acquire all the skills to play the game, improve our skills every day And play our game in the best way If we enjoy a game the best Then it matters least what happens to the output of the game It matters least who is happy with you or who not It matters least how to manage perceptions.

Ask yourself, you are working because you are happy Or you are working for happiness?

O Pratibimba! Is it so difficult to understand? or Cosmos has written some other fate of human?

Hari Om Tat Sat Yours Truly