ATTITUDE TOWARDS WORK!

Hello Friends,



After a long time got myself back on writing something which has been disturbing me mentally…Today I am gonna share few things about “ ATTITUDE TOWARDS WORK” …


They have been sleepless nights for me wondering what am I doing. Thinking about my job…there are many times I have dragged myself to work due to certain reasons my attitude towards work had changed…it just gave me the negative thought of it…We all must have read that enjoy what your doing? But for me it was just the opposite…they could be many people out there who facing the same kind of issues which has lead them to give up on their work …




 There is something I would like to share with all of u…which really touched my heart and made me learn the right kind of attitude towards work….A certain attitude makes us feel work is miserable while another makes us very pleasant…hence we need to cultivate the right attitude towards work…There is a story where i came across and really made sense to me….the story goes like this…


 In a village there were many people working in a construction site building a temple…A sage who passed by wanted to know what was happening there, so he asked one of the person who was working there What are u doing? The labourer replied with frustration “Don’t u see I am cutting a hard stone. Look at my hand! Work is hell and to make matters worse you ask what I am doing? The sage replies I see you are cutting stone but let me know what is coming up here? The stone cutter says I have no idea and he is disinterested.

 The sage goes to the next man asks the same question “What are you doing?” The man replies “ I am cutting stone and that’s my job. For 8 hours of work I get paid Rs 100. I have a wife and children to take care I’m doing my duty”. The sage asks him do you know what Is coming up here? And the man replies “Yes they say they’re making a temple but how does it matter to me, whether a temple or jail as far as I get paid?


Then the sage goes to a third worker and poses the same question. The man replies: "We are building a temple. There is no temple here; every year at festivals we have to trek to the temple in the next village. You know, every time I hit the stone I hear wonderful music. The temple work has put the sleepy village in a festive mood." The sage asks: "How long do you have to work on this project?" The man says the timeline is not his concern for as soon as he wakes up in the morning, he gets ready for work and begins cutting stone. He tells the sage that he spends the entire day here, taking a break between mealtimes. "When I go home in the night and sleep, in my dream I think of this construction and feel grateful that I enjoy the work I do, I am truly blessed," he said.



In the above story we find 3 men doing the same work but different attitudes. The first person thinks its hell, the second looks upon his work as his duty. However, the third worker thinks what he is able to do is a blessing. If the work itself had the qualities inherently, good or bad, then, these three men might have felt the same.



But in reality, it's not the work itself that is good or bad. It is not the work that disturbs us but something that's subtler; it's the attitude we have towards work.