If fulfilment refers to the state of being satisfied, content, or complete. Involving the achievement of ones’s desires, goals, or needs that translates to a sense of accomplishment, then, one of the core reckonings in fulfilment must be work or your vocation. Fulltime work is eight hours per day, which is a third of the day, that expands to about a third of our active adult life.
Work is one of the key vehicles through which the productivity, resourcefulness, efficiency and effectiveness of fulfilment can be communicated. Work here could be paid employment or your enterprise, which allows you to plug into some broader corporate vision and mission. Regular work will enable you to improve systems, test structures, quantify deliverables, and measure Key Performance Indices. Work or vocation is the conventional expression of your creativity, skills, abilities, intellect, and resourcefulness. Quantifiable time spent on a given task naturally calibrates the value of one’s input and becomes the yardstick for compensation and remuneration.
Work is not just a means of earning a living, but a significant contributor to personal growth and potential development. It provides an avenue for self-expression and experience, contextualising dedication, diligence, discipline, a sense of responsibility, and countless other positive acclaims. It’s the easiest way to calibrate or calculate personal value. Work also plays a crucial role in enabling continuous learning, allowing you to get the requisite exposure and gain relevant experience as you add value to processes, products, services and people.
It’s crucial to remember that work time should be a happy hour. And we ought to show up at work with the energy, enthusiasm, and excitement that work requires. If it’s not, and your work or vocation is becoming less gratifying and more stressful, it’s time to take a birds-eye view of the situation. Pinpoint sources of dissatisfaction in the workplace. Is it burnout, a mismatch of personal and corporate goals, or the possibility of being in the wrong industry, organisation, profession, office, supervisor, or team? By identifying these sources, you can take control of your work-life balance and job satisfaction.
See you again next week, bye.