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The Workplace

Learning to love your work and the contribution you make to the workplace

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

— St. Francis De Sales

Do you absolutely love your work and find it amazing that someone pays you to do it? Or do you dread getting up in the morning and count the months until you retire?

When most of us spend a large proportion of our lives working for others, it is important our whole well-being that the job fits us and we fit the job. Yet according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 87% of American workers don't enjoy their jobs. And if we go into business for ourselves, it is even more important that we be passionate about what we do, because it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to create a successful business.

One of the essential factors in finding satisfaction in our career is that, as Richard N. Bolles, author of How To Find Your Mission In Life reminds us, there are many different kinds of voices calling us to all different kinds of work. The challenge, he notes, is to determine which is the voice of God — and which is the voice of society, the superego, or self-interest. He suggests, and we heartily concur, that the kind of work God usually calls us to do is the kind of work that we most need to do and the world most needs to have done.

In this section, experts in motivation, career development, and workplace dynamics can help you discover this sense of mission and purpose and offer practical ways in which you can turn adversity at work into greater personal satisfaction and achievement. Another area in which we will focus is the way in which early relationships in the family affect how we relate to others in the workplace, often to our detriment.