Work Is A Four-Letter WordWritten by Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE
I can hear jokes already and most of them are not politically correct. Let me throw out a word that we often don't attach to work and yet I think it is a word of redemption, of contribution, of achievement, of community, and ultimately, of legacy.Here it is: LOVE. Kahil Gibran proclaimed, "Work is love made visible". I would further clarify his position by insisting that a job is what you do for a paycheck. Work is what you do for a life. It is that energizing, all-encompassing activity that allows you to bring skills to bear in ways that are satisfying beyond a pay period. It is that activity that saves you from being a faceless number in a mechanistic wheel-hence it holds redemptive powers. It is that activity which makes a contribution to a larger world order. It is that activity from which you sense a measure of accomplishment and achievement. It excites you. It gives you joy. It binds you to a community of people who are stakeholders in what you do. Ultimately, it has a ripple effect and potency of a legacy for those who follow. "Ah come on!" you insist. "How about a garbage collector? A waiter? A store clerk? Who is going to love those jobs?" Great question. And at face value, it seems that not every employment opportunity has such grand potential. Just take money, leave it as soon as you can for greener pastures. Screw those miserable bosses. Thumb your nose at customer. And tomorrow you die. That's it. Plain and simple. While you are looking for dream vocation, better work environment, nicer boss, reality can step in and your one moment on Planet is gone forever. It's a reality made even MORE real by current events. There's an uneasy shift that has taken us by storm and rattled our plod-along workaday world. Many are paralyzed by insecurity of times. The terror of 9-11 and subsequent global aggressiveness pushed us over edge. With a wobbly U.S. economy, unsettled change continues to bombard us. Mega-mergers boggle mind with endless zeros streaming behind a behemoth's financial size. We gasp at number of employees who are cast off from a consolidated giant. We see plant closures and layoffs in everything from clothing manufacturing to banking. Overnight web companies turn almost under-age youth into millionaires and executives at age 40 are left scratching their heads. Then, dot.coms fail, leaving bewildered employees in rubble. Wall Street meltdown, corporate greed, and icon-like presidents who crash as fallen idols make daily headlines.
| | Learn some useful feng shui career tipsWritten by Jakob Jelling
As it does with every main life aspect, feng shui also provides tips and guidelines to help you improving your career. If your career is not moving on in way you wish, that is due to a lack of balance and harmony within your environment and elements that affect it. Feng shui career tips intend to help you reach that harmony, but besides of following these specific tips, you should try to follow feng shui guidelines for all your life areas, since your life should be balanced as a whole as well.One first and very important feng shui career tip talks about your desk position. The desk or table you use for working should be placed in a position that allows you to see main door. Your desk should never be with your back at door, since that would be very harmful for your career. And if possible, you should also try to place it in such an angle where you can also see window. You should be careful of not having your back towards a sharp edge or a poison arrow. If you can't avoid this, you could minimize harmful effects by placing a plant or a crystal covering it. In case you have a door or a window at your back, you can also place a plant or a crystal to neutralize bad consequences.
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