The One True Way To Stop Hating Your Job

Have you ever heard someone cry, “I hate my job!”? Or, worse, have you every cried that yourself? Yeah, me, too?

Susan and I hear these words often in our jobs as a family physician and lifecycle lawyer as we try our best to mentor our patients and clients back to a state of balanced health. And, yes, we have even said that same thing a time or two as well. So, we know how you feel, because we have felt that way ourselves. But, let me tell you what we found out.

You never have to hate your job ever again. Never. Ever. Again. If only you will learn to appreciate and enhance the relationship between you, your job, and the rest of your life.

To get you ready to love your job from now own, we need a quick set up of the core principles of my theory of Greatness!, which you can get from my book, Great! All the Time!

• We all have eight types of life’s precious resources: self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people.
• Our lives are nothing but the sum of our relationships with the people, places, things, and ideas with whom and which we have relationships and to whom and which and for whom and which our values make us responsible.
• In order to be Great! All the time!, we have to enhance our relationships in our lives and use our POWER by proceeding only with every resource we have at our disposal.

Why do people hate their jobs?

A recent article in BusinessInsider.com (http://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-you-hate-your-job-2014-6) listed the most interesting 17 Reasons You Hate Your Job. They were:

1. You picked a conservative career when you were young and never switched jobs.
2. You are influenced by extrinsic motivation.
3. You feel like you are working for the wrong reasons.
4. You are not living up to your potential.
5. You feel like your job lacks meaning.
6. You feel obligated to work.
7. You don’t feel in control. 
8. You work too much.
9. You procrastinate on the important things.
10. Your job lacks stability.
11. You place a heavy emphasis on work.
12. You live too far or too close to your job. 
13. You don’t like your boss.
14. You don’t use your non-work hours effectively.
15. You have higher standards.
16. You have the wrong mindset. 
17. You don’t have perspective.

Other surveys taken and articles written over the years show similar things. The ideas flowing through the many thousand-word discussions of these “reasons” have a core reason flowing through them.

People who hate their jobs do not seek and find opportunities to recognize and appreciate the true value of what they are doing for over half of their waking hours each workday not only to themselves, but, and more importantly, to the others around them.

Think about this until next week when we circle back to the business facet of your life and talk about how to do just the opposite of what the job-haters do by learning how to seek and find opportunities to recognize and appreciate that value what you most of the day for most of your days. Here’s a way to get you started and tide you over until then.

Think of your job as a precious resource factory

Your business job is just one big factory through which you invest some of each of your types of resources (self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people) in order to extract out a collectively larger volume of that same collection of resources. If you design and run your job correctly and invest your life’s precious resources in your job correctly, then you will get out of job a positive balance of resources out of your work and an especially enhanced amount of energy, emotion, intellect, property (money!), and (positive relationships with) people.

[reminder]What’s your suggestion for how to find value in your job?[/reminder]