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Let your heart be lled with gratitude for the work that you do. Work should
not be an effort, instead it should be an expression of your inner joy. Choose a
career and work that brings your peace of mind. You discover yourself through
your work. Work expands your personality and so it should be a celebration.

Why you should read this article:

This article talks about the sanctity of work and how important it is to give thanks for the work
that you have. It also speaks about how the work you do should be an expression of your inner
joy. If you are struggling in your career, this article could help you gain some perspective.

Who should read this article:

The work you do and the career you have is an expression of who you are. It can help to
expand your personality and bring you peace of mind. Let the work you do be a celebration,
let it ow through you with the same ease as the morning breeze.

There are 365 days in a year.

If we take away the 52 Sundays, it leaves 313 days left for work.  We at least have 12
declared holidays per year, which leaves 301 days for work.  We are further entitled for 12
days of sick leave, 12 days of casual leave and 12 days of privilege leave.  It leaves 265 days 
for work.

On the days we work, even taking those who do not work by the clock as benchmark, we
spend on an average about 12 hours each day away from work.  And that accounts for 133
days (half of 265).  There are 132 days left for work.

Within those 12 hours at work, we spend at least 2 hours each day on coffee breaks, lunch
and snacking, which accounts for another 11 days (132 x 2 / 24) each year.  It leaves 121 days
available for work. 

And, that’s just 33% of a year is spent at work.

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Of course, those of you with a 5-day week (and most multi-nationals and Government
of ces only work 5-day week), it comes down to just 69 days. 

And that’s embarrassing 18% of the time at work.

Even for this 18% or 33% of work life, there is so much cribbing.  People want TGIF (Thank
God It’s Friday) and they suffer from Monday morning blues.  Yet, we desire abundance! 
Utter nonsense, isn’t it?

And those of you, who do you personal work during the work hours, keep searching for
another job during your work hours, spend countless hours on social media, personal
mails and personal chatting through your smart phones during your work hours, counsel
your colleagues or gossip with them during work hours… you will have to calculate further
downwards from 121 or 69 days and arrive at your own calculation.

Oh, what a tragedy?  Though born in a culture that taught the world that ‘Work is
Worship’ and through work (Karma Yoga) the divine can be attained, we have lost the
sanctity of work.

The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the shelter we live in and the luxuries of comfort we
enjoy are the rewards from the work we do.   Let your heart be ever lled with gratitude
for the work you do.  It has not only given you the rewards of life but it has also added a
sense of purpose and dignity to your life. 

Irrespective of the people you work with, the organisation you represent, the designation
you carry, the portfolio you hold, let every morning of yours begin with gratitude to the
work to do.  Let us go to our work place with greater reverence and devotion than we
would go to a place of worship.

Work should be an expression of your inner joy.   Work must be seen as the expression
grounds to your innate talent and potential.  Work should provide expansion to your
personality. 

Work must not be an effort; it should rather ow through you with the same ease as the
morning breeze.  Work must be a celebration.  You must dance your way to work and
come back whistling your favourite tunes.

The duration of work, the compensation package, the position at work should all be other
details compared to the expression you nd at work.  Your work should not be quanti ed
by what you get in return.  You must always deliver more than what you get paid for. 

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When Christ said, “Go the extra mile,” it is also a management philosophy as much as a
spiritual doctrine.  If every homemaker or mother would begin to equate the quantum of
their work with compensations, then this world would come to a grinding halt.

Please get your perception about the sanctity of work right.  You don’t work for anybody. 
You work for yourself.  The organization and others may bene t from the effects of your
work, but the main bene ciary of your work is yourself.  You discover yourself through
your work.  Work expands your personality.  Is yours a better job or is it only a better
paying job? 

The chair you hold should not curb the quality of your work.  Give the best you can and be
the best in what you do.  I am not saying that time, money and position are insigni cant

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in life.  Of course, they are very signi cant but there is no price tag to the ful lment the
heart feels, when it nds inner expression through work.

Hey, if you have all the money in the world, would you still be doing the same work that
you are doing right now?  If your answer is ‘yes’, then you are pursuing the right work. 
Life’s bounties will come in search of you even if not asked for.  However, if your answer is
‘no’, then there will only be eternal incompleteness in your life.

Would you please not kill the expression of your soul by sitting in a job or business, which
is not for you.  Listen to the crying of your soul.  It takes one daring decision and one brave
moment to get your professional life right.  Do it now.  Shifting jobs isn’t a big decision;
shifting careers is. 

Being in the business is one thing.  But, to give up a process that has succeeded for you,
in search of a process that will give you peace is a big decision.  But, sometimes that’s
what it takes to be peaceful… a big decision.

There is a whole range of things that you can do to earn in life, but only the work that is
done as if it is your hobby will give you peace.  In fact, the secret is to make your hobby
your profession.  Your competence has made you a Chartered Accountant, but your heart
blossoms in your singing. 

Find a way to make singing your profession.  Social pressure has made you an Engineer,
but your heart delights when you play snooker.  How about the business of a snooker
centre?  Your education has made you a doctor, but your childlike exuberance comes out
in cooking.  Let the world not miss a super chef.  Your money is from the corporate world. 
Your soul yearns to teach.  Peace is discovered when your yearning gains precedence
over earning.  Teach and nd a way to become rich through teaching.

Let us break the old paradigm that ‘success is a means to happiness’.  Let the new
paradigm be that ‘success is an expression of happiness’.

Come… let’s go the other way.  Find a work,

which gives you inner expression.  You will nd
happiness in it. 

Make the world recognise the value you add through your work.  You will nd success
through it.  Dedicate the results of your work as an expression of gratitude to your Cosmic 
Presence.  You will feel closer to the Divine.  Make this work of yours useful to the world. 
And, you will nd your life’s purpose in that work.

Let the effects of your work be the signature you leave behind in this world.

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