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One of the most important learning in
life for me is to appreciate people who do things that most people don’t like to
do; but without those people, we simply cannot survive.
Those things look repetitive,
tedious or even disgusting; but getting those things done keep life in order, giving
us a sense of security and peaceful mind.
Using the same concept to work place,
home and daily life, we can realize that there seem to be something we don’t want to do but we have
to do. How to turn things that are less interesting, being
always procrastinated to things that we are ready, willing and happy to do is a
big learning in life as well. All successes starts from the things seeming insignificant,
trivial; but that could be the basics , elements, details of a successful story.
The mindset here is CHANGE from “I have
to” to “I've got to”, from boring to interesting, from less meaningful to
meaningful. It is a matter of ownership of our own life.
Our “thoughts” determines how we see “the
thing”. Change our thoughts, change our prospective, “those things” will be never
the same; our life will be never the same as our actions will speak for
itself.
In the book named “Happiness
Advantage’, Professor Shawn Anchor teaches us how to cultivate ourselves to own a grateful, happy mindset so as to enjoy work and any life challenge. With happiness mindset, success will follow us ...
“Happiness fuels success. If we can
find a way to get our brain to become more positive, our success rate will
increase, and as results our work will become more productive, enjoyable and
rewarding.”
Yesterday I watched a TV documentary about the
growth and huge change of Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, in which, the head of mortuary 殮房 shared his profound experience.
At first I thought their jobs were the toughest,
most unwanted in the world probably. Every day he has to face grief, sorrow of
families with death issue and even hysterical shouting, cry frequently. However
what they enjoy is how they can help the families with “lost loved ones” to get a peaceful
mind at that moment. He found his job fulfilling.
When a girl died
without any family, relatives
to recognize her body after a long term staying in hospital fighting diseases, the doctors,
nurses who had been taking care of her and the people
working in the mortuary donated money to give the girl a respective funeral
ceremony themselves. I was moved to tears…
Here I learn to
respect, appreciate people, the unsung heroes in
different positions, fields who serve us silently. Learning from them gives us
a sense of happiness, gratitude, a meaning of life. As a result, we can apply this mindset in our workplace and families, making a difference.
The world, the reality will be much more beautiful when we have a compassionate, grateful mindset towards people who serve us,
to our jobs and families who support us – the sources of our motivations and
creativity, action power and preservation and eventually our happiness.
References
Forbes Thought Of The Day
“ No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. ”
— Epictetus
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