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Never approach your work with half-hearted effort. Give it all you have and you will be rewarded with great satisfaction and growth.

I’ve got a question for you. What would make you quit your job more readily? 1) One working a job that was too easy or too working OR

2) A job that was too challenging?

If you choose number one, you were in agreement with majority of workers. They repeatedly say that a challenging job is what they want and they are more likely to leave a less challenging situation than one that was demanding. At first thought, one might be inclined to think that working at a job with less or no responsibility is ideal. Good job choice. This might be acceptable for a while. However, Boredom and Dissatisfaction would eventually surface. This situation would prompt most workers to make the choice to seek other employment.

There is satisfaction when one is doing a challenging task. The feeling of pride and accomplishment from having done a good job is exhilarating. This thought was amplified by a group of workers I surveyed during a quality training program. From among a list of choices they selected. Doing challenging work as one of their top two choices, far ahead of a good pay.

The other choice was developing a feeling of pride about their work. Think about your work situation. Is it challenging your abilities or can you go though it each day with great ease? Do you feel a sense of pride at the end of the day because you engaged in meaningful work. No matter what you do for a living, you owe it to yourself to find satisfaction in your work. Life is too short to work at a miserable job. If unhappiness occurs on the job, that feeling will carry itself off the job and ultimately affect your family relations. That is too steep a price to pay for job misery. Don’t misunderstand this message. I am not advocating that should immediately terminate your employment. If you are dissatisfied with your current position, what I am suggesting is that you need to find satisfaction in your work. If you quit and you are unhappy, what can you do? Here are some suggestions that can help. See how many you can adapt at your work situation to make it more meaningful and satisfying.

1. Every day try to do things a little better than the day before. Sometimes with a little more effort, we can raise our level of competency and vastly improve the quality of our work. It’s the little things that make the difference. This practice may separate you from the masses and ultimately lead to a promotion.
2. Go beyond the routine. I only do what they tell me to do. That’s the dialogue of a loser. Examine your job and see how you might make it more creative, exciting, rewarding and fun. It is possible to create enthusiasm for any job.
3. Be a pro. Professionals always perform at the peak of their abilities to be a pro, you must first think like pro. Professional athletes are expected to give it They’re all every moment. They are in a contest. Those who choose to do it. Definitely find themselves out of work. There is something very satisfying about doing things well. The professional understands this and perform well on every occasion.

Several years ago, Michael Jordan left basketball for two years and attempted to make a transition into professional baseball. He was not successful. When it became evident that he would not make the transition into baseball, Jordan came back to his game basketball. With the heart of a champion, he worked and worked to regain his basketball skills. After two years, he led his team to the best NBA record of all times and another championship. Jordan was again voted the league’s outstanding player. He is a pro in every sense of the word.

• Get ready for opportunity. Think of opportunity as a freeway. All the blue colored cars traveling this freeway. Carry an opportunity to improve your life. The others do nothing for you. You have the ability to stop any car you wish, but you haven’t trained yourself to recognize the color blue. Without that knowledge, finding opportunity is very difficult. You can randomly stop a car and hope it contains the riches you seek. But the odds are working against you. However, when you prepare yourself to see the blue, you are better able to stop the right car and capture its riches. Prepare yourself because you never know when a blue color might pass by.
• Acquire reference materials about your work. Big constant looking for any source of information that will enlighten you about your work. The source might come from a formal course or could simply be an article in a magazine. Learn all you can about your job and the industry in which you work. You never know when the information might prove beneficial. Staying abreast of all new discoveries, trends and the thinking of leaders in your field is also an excellent practice to implement.
• The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence. At times we have the perception that moving to another position will bring up the happiness and satisfaction we see from our work. While that can be the case, look carefully before you leap. What looks good on the surface with further examination might actually prove to be a worse situation. Take time. To explore all possibilities that exist. In your current employment, before you cast your eyes on new territory, if none exist, then you can begin to exercise other options.

Frederick Buechner in his book Wishful Thinking, describes finding her ideal vocation this way. The place God calls you is a place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. I cannot offer you better advice to help with your search for success in your career choice.