Do you like your job?
I got a curious question the other day from a friend of mine: Do you like your new job? and I actually had to think of the answer. I didn’t know! Honestly I’ve been so busy doing work (especially the week following the Transformation in the Workplace seminar) that I haven’t had time to think about if I liked my work or not.
I was rather surprised by myself, but it makes perfect sense…
The older versions of myself love to debate about whether what I’m doing is meaningful or interesting. But I’ve been so engrossed in just doing my various tasks that the conversation didn’t even come up. However doing each of those tasks in and of itself was enormously satisfying, whether it was writing an email about the status of a project, doing some organization/cleanup, gaining consensus at a meeting, etc. I now know that when I sit back and the thinking/conversation about where this will all lead and whether or not I feel fulfilled starts happening that I’ve lost my center.
In the workshop this past weekend, I said something about not writing some documents I owed to my old group. Well, guess what? I wrote those documents over the last few days (much more quickly than I had anticipated, I might add) and it was a wonderful experience doing it. I wasn’t just writing documents. I was crafting very precise technical specifications, and I made them very succinct and readable and I took great pleasure writing each sentence, and annotating each diagram.
Bravo to the Kanes and to this wonderful community for creating this magical environment in which we can all thrive!
Madhu
