Many people ask how to discover their life purpose, believing that when they find that, they will be able to find their ideal work. This is certainly the case, but no experience is wasted in life. While you are working on discovering your life purpose, what about learning the purpose of the work you are doing?
Work is the ultimate personal development workshop where you get paid to attend. You rarely consciously get to choose the people you work with and as a result you find you are surrounded by “interesting” personality types. To keep your job, you need to deal with difficult, unpleasant and sometimes boring tasks under trying timelines and situations.
Just think about it, at work your effectiveness & success depends on you finding creative ways to deal with people, situations and politics that if you had a choice in your regular life you would avoid at all costs. Yet, the more you learn, the more effective you are.
So look around you at your present job – what curriculum are you enrolled in? Are you in the “Dealing with Difficult People” course, or the “Time Management” program? Are you in the “Remaining Motivated from Within” session or the “Learning to trust your Intuition” segment?
Are you a repeat student – do you keep finding you are doing the same subject no matter which school (work) you attend?
The next challenge is realizing that while the people all around you are action learning sets for you to practice on; you are someone for them to practice on. What about your own behaviour is irritating or annoying others? Are you someone else’s “difficult person”? If you are, what are you willing to do to learn and grow?
Once you have identified your curriculum, you are in a better place to target your personal growth and development. What do you need to learn in order to function optimally? What emotions or behaviours do you need to target and refine in order to graduate from this class?
Work does not have to be all about task. If you can rise above the every day and look at your work with new eyes, you can discover the purpose of your present job. In doing that, you will also begin to discover your life’s purpose.
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