7 7 Reasons You Should Not Work So HardHow To Love Any Job In The World In 8 Simple Steps

By Divyani Rattanpal,Friday, 11 Jul 2014

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Our generation is a confused one. We are all chasing after the romantic notion of 'doing what we love'. We are frantically looking for The Job that fits our mental description of being something we will love. And, while there is nothing wrong with this type of thinking, the problem is when our quest takes us too far away.

An engineer who is earning a seven-figure salary per month recently told the author he wants to get into writing at the ripe age of 29. Another one wants to drop out of college just to get into music. While there is nothing more fulfilling than finding your calling, sometimes we often mistakenly believe that we can't be happy with a regular job. The engineer could, for instance, always start a blog after coming back from work. Is it advisable for him to leave a well-paying job just to satiate a passion? MensXP presents you with 8 ways that will make you fall in love with your job, now.

1. Loving work is great. But then again, is it your top most priority in life? If you were given an option to choose between a 'satisfying' job and 'being able to support your family', what would you rather choose? While most self-help books and motivational thinkers around the world might have made 'satisfying jobs' look like the most imperative goal that ever existed, the truth is that when your family and friends see you as successful despite your empty feeling, it makes it easier to endure. For many people, loving work isn't said to be a critical component of success, it's just a thing "nice to have".

2. According to world-renowned psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "The best moments in a person's life usually occur when his mind/body is stretched to its limits to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile." Which is why, as humans, we are most engaged when we have found a sweet spot of challenge. You need to find challenge in your work that makes you want to work hard to achieve it.

3. No one can create the conditions for your perfect job, except for yourself. You can't just wait and pray for "the perfect job" to happen to you. You need to switch from having a reactive perspective at work to a more proactive one, as it is the key to creating a fulfilling job. Loving work is a commitment that requires active day to day prioritization. By taking charge of things you like to do, you can design a happier job for yourself.

4. Many people keep this so-called "passion for the job" running only till the process of job-hunting but once the daily grind of the job begins they go back to their passive, nitpicking and complaining mode. The saddest truth of today's workforce is that a handful of workers actually manage to find joy in their day-to-day work schedule.

5. In all honesty, only 1 % of people actually succeed at finding their dream jobs. In fact, many of us wouldn't even know what the "perfect job" means to us. Therefore, it is rather better to know your talents and purpose and make them the key components of your job. Loving your job requires that you utilize what you're best at (your talent) and that the result of your work gives you fulfillment (purpose). For this, you need to first know where your strengths and purpose lie - value them and then know how to use them in your working life.

6. The extension to point number five, this point essentially tells you to pay attention to when you are excited and when you feel fulfilled at work. Your talent is not what you do. It's how you do what you do: how you think, how you approach problem-solving, what is your go-to way of processing information, et al. And, what will your purpose be? It's the type of impact that gives you fulfillment.

If you can touch other's lives through what you do, you can achieve a high sense of fulfillment in your job in an instant. For example, Howard Schultz of Starbucks wanted to help individuals have health insurance at work as a result of his parents working blue-collar jobs without health benefits, which later became the backbone of his company's mission: "To inspire and nurture the human spirit--one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time." The key is taking these two aspects of yourself and being strategic with how you use them as cornerstones of your job.

7. Take up jobs and projects that excite you. At work, communicate to your manager why a particular project is not the right one for you. Build a case for the work that would keep you highly motivated and challenged. Find someone else who would benefit from doing the work that is not a good fit for you. Take projects from others that you think you can do more justice to. In essence, make an effort to create the opportunity you are seeking in order to be engaged and challenged.

8. If your current job isn't providing you enough challenges, by all means, find yourself one that does justice to your personality. Focus, however, on finding a job that fulfils all your multiple desires, of being challenged, of being able to take on challenging tasks, of aligning with your personality, and most importantly NOT at the cost of financial stability and/ or any other major compromise.Are you dissatisfied with your work life despite putting in everything you can? Well, it's probably because you're working much more than you should. Men taking their careers a little too seriously is a common phenomenon today. You probably do not even realise what excessive amount of working hours are taking away from you. There is a fine line between working hard and letting overworking kill you bit by bit, and you must acknowledge it. We know people always say that the right path is difficult to walk on. But what they do not tell you is that not all difficult paths are right. Believe us, spending 20 hours in office isn't doing you any good. It is time you end the madness that your life has become. We know the workaholic in you is anything but convinced, which is why we bring to you the following 7 reasons why you should stop working so hard.

Quality Suffers

Even the most brilliant of men have struggled to find the perfect balance between quantity and quality. The moment you start concentrating on the former, the latter goes for a complete toss. The more you focus on completing the number of tasks, the lesser chances you have of doing an excellent job at any of them.

You Get Sleep Deprived

There is only so much you can do in 24 hours. If you're chasing success at the cost of sleep, you're on the wrong track buddy. Sleep deprivation makes you look haggard and fatigued all the time. Not just that, it affects your adversely. It has already started, you know it.

You Mess Up When It Matters The Most

You work all day for that one presentation and when the time comes for you to sell it to the world, you goof up. After spending sleepless nights in office at a stretch, you obviously cannot generate new ideas and convince people. Spontaneity seems like a far fetched dream when you need it the most.

You Become Irritable

You've neither reached where you should have and moreover, your mood hasn't bettered in a long time. Who is to blame? Your work habits. Especially if you run a business, your temperament matters a lot - something you're spoiling already.

You Set Up A Bad Example

You're ruining work life for people who look up to you. A good leader never shows the wrong path. You don't want a whole batch of employees to start replicating your inhumanly unhealthy work schedule.

You Are Drifting Away From Close Ones

The most important thing that this lifestyle is taking from you is people who matter to you the most. Don't neglect people for work. Before you know it, you would've shut out all options of reconnecting with them. Don't wait for the day when the only person you talk to after heading home is your boss.

It's Not That Important

Your tasks are not half as important as you think and we don't need to know you personally to assert that. Will the thing that you are so stressed about at present matter 10 years from now? There you go.Reasons You Should Not Work So Hard

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