How to Love Your Job

Are you wanting to know how to love your current job? It’s very easy in today’s workplace to get into patterns of behavior. You complete the same tasks the same way, work with the same people so you have probably fallen into a familiar routine. It is comforting and known. It is also a rut. If you’re in one, here are four steps you can take to get out of it.

Learn How to Love Your Job With These 4 steps

1. Get outside.

   In order to see where you are, you need to step outside the rut and look at how you may be held back and restricted by your routine. Consider what artificial blinders you may have in place that limit your viewpoint and creativity. Expand your field of vision and see the possibilities in your future. Look at your job with the eyes of an outsider and consider how they would find positives in your current work. Remember, it is possible to live a life without limits.

2. Consider the grass.

   You may think that it’s easier to leave your job and find a new one than to stay and make the changes necessary so you know how to love your job. But the grass is not always greener in some other yard. You’ve worked at this job and this workplace for a long time and it’s become familiar to you. You look at it with the same perspective every day and now you’re seeing only the negative.

3. Get committed.

   Yes, it seems simpler to leave and find a new job than to stay. It can be challenging to make the commitment, look long and hard at yourself and your actions and make the changes you need to create a better, stronger relationship with your job. But you are the one who will benefit most from making this commitment. You’ll become more relaxed, more open to new ideas, more creative. You will complete your work quicker and at a higher level of quality. You feel better about yourself and your abilities, your superiors notice your increased level of performance and reward you accordingly. When you enjoy your work and perform it better, your overall quality of life improves.

4. Change one thing.

   This week, I challenge you to change just one thing at your current job so you know how to love it. What skills and abilities do you have that you can bring into your work? What barriers are there to your enjoyment of your job and what creative solutions can you brainstorm to overcome them? What co-workers can you use as role models or mentors? What can you do to take better care of yourself at work?

Get creative and spend some time brainstorming ideas! List all the thoughts that occur to you, no matter how impractical and farfetched they may sound.

Then, choose one and put it into action. E-mail me and let me know what you did and what the results were. I may feature your stories in a future issue of my newsletter Fulfillment@Work.