What is this passion that others are talking about? Where do we find this passion every day? Perhaps it is sold at one of the supermarkets, nicely stalked on the shelves? Where do we find the power to create this passion at all? How do we keep the flame of this passion burning every day?
These are just a few questions that we ask ourselves when we go to work day in and day out. Sometimes we work for and with people who are not the happiest of all, to say the least. That unhappiness spills over towards our space, and we are affected by it all the time. If we work for a manager who is unhappy, who for some odd reason comes to work each morning only to tell us and our coworkers how awful we are, and that our performance at work is down comparing to last year, that doesn’t help and it is not motivating at all, and it makes us think that perhaps this is not the workplace we want to be part of. Even if we like what we are doing, it is still a big boulder to go around. There are people who can tune out all negativity, but not all of us. Many of us like to be surrounded by positive, productive and supportive environment.
After the exposure to that kind of verbal abuse and negativity, I wouldn’t come to work with a passion every day. Even if I like my position itself, all that negativity around me is not helping at all. Moreover, every morning I will think of an excuse to stay at home and not go to work. It will be a struggle, and life is challenging anyways already.
I have learned throughout the years that I can help others at any job I have held so far. Helping others has been very important to me. With that thought in mind, I am able to keep the flame of my passion for any given position I have been holding so far. Helping others is my motivation to go to work every day.
Right, there is a “little” thing called responsibility. Sometimes we make a decision to stay at work even with a negative boss, because we have to pay the mortgage, the rent, or we have the responsibility of caring for our loved ones. Basically, we need to survive, and so we go to work with no passion in our heart day in and day out. We enter the factory, the office, or any other place of work and we dread it. I remember vividly at one incident my old coworker saying quietly, “oh no, another day in hell.” There is no passion in our heart. The only motivation to go to work every day, knowingly it is going to be another negative day, is because we have the entire survival burden on our shoulders.
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
However, beyond the basic fact that we need money in order to buy milk and bread, going further, this is not a healthy path. The path of going to work every day with no passion in our heart is the total opposite of a healthy lifestyle. If we are more positive in our thinking and outlook toward life, there are others as us too. There are managers and coworkers who know the importance of being positive, who like life and other people. With the burden of life and all our important responsibilities, we need to take the leap of faith and seek another environment that we feel we can go to work every day happily and with a passion in our heart, ready to complete all the tasks at hand. That way, we can contribute more.
By finding our motivation, and our “whys” we wake up every day with a fervor to what we do, we can restore our passion in our heart. Believing that our small or big contribution at work is very important to the general success of the company will help us raise our passion and our confidence. When we find the passion, the money will follow suit. This is our inner push to go to work and the awareness that we are powerful.
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