You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Are you looking for more money, more time and/or more meaning?
Then the first thing you must do is to take responsibility to make it happen, because you are the CEO of your life.
Prison versus Work
In prison, you spend the majority of your time in an 8 X 10 cell.
At work, you spend most of your time in a 6 X 8 cubicle.
In prison, you get 3 meals a day.
At work, you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it yourself.
In prison, you get time off for good behavior.
At work, you get rewarded for good behaviour with more work..
In prison, a guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
At work, you carry around a security card and unlock all the doors for yourself.
In prison, you can watch TV and play games.
At work, you can get fired for watching TV and playing games.
In prison, you get your own toilet.
At work, you have to share.
In prison, all expenses are paid by taxpayers with no work required.
At work, you have to work hard so that you can pay your expenses,
and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
In prison, you spend most of your time looking through the bars inside,
wanting to get out.
At work, you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
In prison, there are wardens who are often sadistic.
At work, they are called managers.
~ Anonymous posting on the Internet
The line between the prison and the workplace appears thin. Are you ready to shape your world? Heaven or hell, it is all in your mind. The environment is but a manifestation of what is within you. You always have a choice, when you are willing to pay the price.
At day’s end, only three words matter: Results, NOT Reasons.
If you find this too profound, you’re probably still new at the workplace game. You will understand it when you are more experienced. It is about having the courage to face up to your authentic self, and to what matters most to you.
You hang on to status quo and familiar mediocrity because no one ever taught you how to spot opportunity. No one taught you how to go for it. Even if they did, you may not be ready to accept it. It is outside your reality. You simply cannot grasp it.
Many lead lives of quiet desperation. You play by the rules. You hope the bosses will recognize you when you do good work. Unfortunately, the real world is not so straightforward.
The game changes often, and so too the rules. Unless you can adapt fast, you could become obsolete!
This is the game of the new economy. There are multiple worlds and parallel universes around you. It is always useful to explore other worlds to enable you to expand your minds and maximize opportunities which often come disguised as problems.
