“EVERYONE HAS BEEN MADE FOR SOME PARTICULAR WORK, AND THE DESIRE FOR THAT WORK HAS BEEN PUT IN EVERY HEART.”- Rumi

This may be true, but it isn’t easy. Let’s face it, many of us enter adulthood expecting the doors of opportunity to slide open the way doors do when we present ourselves at the supermarket. We expect to find our true calling before gravity turns what was once a piece of art into melted ice cream. Time and the routine of work can get us down. Many people, I would guess (guess: a totally unscientific term meaning ‘if it is true, it supports my argument’) end up going to work only to wait it out until retirement. Then, they imagine having the time to live their dreams.

This does not work. It’s too bad, but it doesn’t. Here is why: you will not have the time you need to be happy in retirement, unless you set aside time to be happy now. Haven’t you noticed how easy it is to jump from the good ship ‘bad relationship’ only to find the captain on the next good ship ‘good relationship’ is the same person in a different uniform?

The problem is not work itself. There are tons of people on this planet who love their work. There are also tons of people who are miserable at work. At some point each of us is asked to do something he or she does not want to do. We need to find a way to work gladly through the stuff that feels like torture. It comes down to that one word - attitude.

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

- Martha Washington

This week, if you feel any dissatisfaction with work, ask yourself if you can find a way of being with it more lightly.