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Today's
Meditation:
One
of the most important things that I learned during my time
in the Army was that sometimes you just have to do what
you have to do, and if you give a lot to it, you get much
more out of it. We often had to do tasks that were
unpleasant at best, yet if we complained about them and
did them without any enthusiasm, then we did them poorly
and we didn't enjoy them one bit.
If,
on the other hand, we approached those tasks with
enthusiasm and did our best to do them well, then we were
able to get some enjoyment out of them. It became a
challenge to see how well we could do them, the time
went by much more quickly and we finished with results that
we might even have been proud of.
It
was all our choice. We had the ability to choose to
put some effort into our tasks or to choose to do them
poorly. If we did them poorly, we always disliked
the process and never liked the results. If we did
them well, we might not have received a lot of praise or
thanks, but we knew that we had at least given our
all. And almost more importantly, we gave ourselves
the chance to actually enjoy doing something that seemed
to be unpleasant from the beginning.
This
type of attitude very often defines the difference between
successful people and unsuccessful people. I've
worked with the people who do things half-way, who never
put all they can into a job. They aren't fun to work
with, and they rarely produce work that will help them to
advance in their fields. Their counterparts, though,
help to spread positive energy by sharing their
enthusiasm, and their work tends to be work that others
can count on. Which kind of person do you wish to
be?
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