Podcast: Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 435 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Do you realize that according to the International Labor Organization, the average American works 1,979 hours per year which is over 400 hours more than Europeans and over 100 more than the Japanese? And this is of an increase in the last decades for a full week per year.
Quite amazing. These changes are incredible if you think about the impact that it has on our lives.
Now, work is a daily grind. What do we do, every single day when we go to work? Actually we spend more waking hours and some of the best years of our lives at our jobs than our homes.
I heard of a story of a person who was driving by one of the bridges and that person saw, inside the toll booth, a man who was dancing, and the driver asked him, “Why are you dancing?” He said, “Because I am practicing. I’m having a party. I’m having a good time. I come to work every day and I’m surrounded with good things. I mean, my job is not boring. I’ve got a corner office, glass on all sides and I see hundreds of people, listen to the music as loud as I wish.”
Quite interesting how this person worked in a “toll booth”, saw his work as being so innovative and made the best of it.
We spend so much time trying to figure out what we do. Whether or not our work is dehumanizing, it depends on how we approach it. I can clearly say, thank G-d that I personally have enjoyed every single job that I’ve had. Even at times when I used to travel extensively; thousands and thousands of miles per year, reached hundreds of thousands of cities that I would visit during my work. I’ve enjoyed every part of it and I looked for the beauty in each and every location, and I knew there was a purpose for it.
You see, doing the “best” each time that you’re doing it gives you the wholeheartedness to know and finding delight in what you’re doing if you understand that what you’re doing is indeed necessary. It’s a mission; it’s part of your life, and the reason why you’re here is because you have to elevate some G-dly spark or an amazing unknown concept, and you’re the only one that could do that. That’s how you got to that place. So instead of wishing you weren’t where you are, use that opportunity to make your job the best place to be and make it memorable.
Did you enjoy the motivational daily podcast?
If so, why not help us spread the goodness by posting a review on iTunes and sharing your favorite episode.
Let us join together and bring positivity around the world!
