Work but don’t get worked up
I.M. Soni

You may want to improve your personality to be successful in your career chase and also to create a lasting impression on the people you meet in life.

For this, follow the golden principle: no law of success works unless you do.

Work invests life with significance. You spend half of your life working, so you might as well do it well. Common sense, ethics and duty demand it of you. Any attempt at success, must thus embrace your work.

Put your work attitude under a microscope and find out if it is all in order. If you find yourself falling short, resolve to do something about it. One test is: will you be satisfied if you were paying the salary you are getting to someone else ?

Shoddy work is actually the result of haste. It makes waste. Ignorance entails carelessness.

A simple solution can make you focus on more efficiency, carefulness, sincerity, better quality and accuracy. Remind yourself often: Am I proud or ashamed of my work?

Put in more. Increase the quantity of your work in a stated period of time. Shirkers often skip work. They are liberal in wasting time. They are niggardly in output.

Many office-goers dilly- dally, spend hours in doing work which should take them a few minutes. They end the day showing little on the accomplishment list. The pending pile is their only achievement .

Such people get little satisfaction from their working life. They go about disgruntled. They often boast of their skill of warding off work but, in their heart of hearts, are an unhappy lot. They are often sour-faced, always grumbling. The moment a defect of theirs is exposed they taken offence and come out with a string of excuses.

By careful thinking, you can streamline your day's work. But before that you have to change your attitude. Work is worship, not a punishment. It enables you to round the angularities of your personality. It leads you to achievement and satisfaction.

Approach your work in a spirit of cheerfulness. This is possible if you go to it with a positive drive and robust motivation. You may not approach your work with the zeal of Tolstoy who wrote his line 15 times, but if you work in the spirit of sincerity, you will have done justice to it. It is important because you feel significant for your contribution. This meets the deepest need in you. Also, you feel that you are an integrated personality. Bertrand Russell says that your “work chisels your personality.” There is no handicap except your own thinking. You have the power to magnify yourself.