The 4 Confusions at Work and What You Can Do Today

If you were like most people working for a while, you'll realize that many people see work as one or a combination of the 4 confusions: Work as Drudgery, Work as War, Work as Addiction and Work as Problem. The earlier you see through these confusions, the happier you will become. Soon work will become no more confusing but with lots of clarity! The 4 confusions are:

1. Work as Drudgery

Here we see work as drudgery and only necessary to give us a pay check so that we can have a life. Job become a tax that we must pay before we can go home. We become deaf and dumb and unable to contribute meaningfully to our employer.

What You Can Do: Recognize that work is not the real drudgery but your unwillingness to be interested in your work. It's time to get passionate about your job!

2. Work as War

Here is a lose-win mentality. Such aggressive approach to work imprisons us in a constant impulse to maintain our point of view. Our entire world must constantly be dealt with and controlled. Work will soon become a drudgery and burn out will be common.

What You Can Do: Know that our war is not with our work but with our own insecurity.

3. Work as Addiction

Here we work hard and stay long hours, We drive ourselves to do more and more and more. As workaholics, we become perfectionists. Praise from the boss or colleague will thrill us, but such happiness is always fleeting and never enough. On the other hand, criticism and disappointments at work will make us feel worthless.

What You Can Do: Work Less as our work has become an anesthesia - a drug for numbing us to our pain.

4. Work as Problem

Here we assume that we need to solve work - to get work to behave and stop being unpredictable and unruly. We become idealistic - and often believe that there is one best solution to solve problems. The mentality is constantly ambitious, always searching for the newest technique or strategy.

If we were to examine this mentality, we would realize that work is not the problem. Our ambition and constant searching for solutions is the problem. We should stop and really see what is the situation and act accordingly. Sometimes the biggest problem is You - you create problem out of no problem!

By Andy Ng, Trainer at Asia Trainers, details at here.

Comments

The Secret Under the Mattress: Why would a 79-year Man Bet So Big on 4D?

It was 2007 when we discovered his secret. While moving my father’s mattress, we found them: heaps and heaps of Singapore Pools 4D tickets. They were stacked in layers, a paper trail of lost hopes. What shocked us most wasn’t just the volume, but the stakes. He wasn’t betting a few dollars for fun. He was punting hundreds of dollars per draw—nearly ten times a month. At the time, my siblings and I were furious. Our father was a 79-year-old retiree. We wondered, with a mix of anger and confusion, why a man at his stage of life would need to win such "big money." What was he going to do with the money? We saw it as a reckless habit, a sign of poor judgment in his final years. Some of us would say, "If I were to give him money to buy 4D, why don't I use the money and buy 4D myself? At least I have better discipline". It has taken me two decades, and the experience of raising my own three grown-up children, to finally see the truth that was hidden under that matt...

Have You Found Your Sun Yi and Teresa Teng?

I n the long, unfolding history of the Chinese-language music scene, "The Moon Represents My Heart" 月亮代表我的心 stands as an unsurpassable milestone. Yet, the journey of this globally renowned masterpiece, a song that would eventually captivate the world, was fraught with setbacks: it was once dismissed as "trash" by its own creator and tossed into a wastebasket, later suppressed by official policy as a "banned song ," and initially failed to gain any traction when performed by two different singers. The dramatic turnaround in this song’s fate is not merely a musical legend; it offers a profound life lesson: the greatest stroke of luck in life is not about how perfect you are, but about encountering the "right people", those who truly understand you, support you, and help you realize your potential, at exactly the right moment. I. The First "Right Person": A "Talent Scout" Who Recognizes Your Worth In the early 1970s, composer T...

How to Use Zoom Cloud Meetings Effectively

(Read also How to Secure Your Zoom meeting ) Other than Zoom Cloud Meeting, you can use other video conferencing platforms like Google Hangouts, Skype and WeChat Video Conference. Zoom is the most popular because it is free and is easy to use, especially on the phone . Here's how you can use Zoom effectively: Use a laptop, not your phone or tablet, especially when you are hosting a meeting. On a laptop, you can see everything: the PowerPoint screen that you are sharing, video of all participants and the group chats. You can easily type on a laptop and this is useful when you are translating or doing detailed explanations. The host of the zoom meeting should mute everyone at the settings and only unmute them when they speak. Participants can indicate that they want to speak by raising their hands before speaking Use earpiece or headsets or wireless earbuds so that you have a better concentration of the voices in the meeting and not be d...

Business and Money Tips

Search This Blog