The job: Waiting for the end of the day freedomiseverything.com /2016/05/26/the-job-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-day/
Do you enjoy your job? Or do you find yourself always waiting for the end of the day? Have you ever stopped to think about how you are spending your days? In 2015 I stopped to look at the days in my life and how I was spending them. I had a realisation that shocked me.
What I realised was that I was spending many of my days at work waiting for the end of the day. Then I would get up and do the same thing again the next day – for 5 days in a row. Madness.
When I stopped to think about it, I knew that this was a sure sign of a few things:
I didn’t enjoy my job I wasn’t fulfilled by my job I was in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing I was working to please someone else (face-time) I had the wrong outlook on life
These realisations led me to review other areas of my life and I realised that when you truly enjoy something, you don’t want that activity to end.
I also realised that there were times at work when I was genuinely enjoying an activity. I saw that what made those activities enjoyable was the feeling that I was adding value to both my own life and someone else’s at the same time.
Comparing that to most days at work I could see that the times I was engaged vs the times I was unengaged came down to a few simple points:
I was engaged when the activity was of obvious benefit to both myself and others I could see and feel the results of what I was doing An activity fully challenged my brain, rather than purely ‘busywork’
Having my own business – full engagement 1/4