A New Day and New Opportunities

It’s the start of a new day and that means new opportunities. Some people hate getting up each morning. Other people love getting up and going to work. The difference is how you see things. Most jobs will have periods of stress and many are physically demanding. If you look at every meeting as an opportunity and every challenge as a chance to succeed demands of the job don’t seem so daunting. I have heard many times that nobody loves to work and very few people actually like their job. Well, if that is the case with you, only you can change it. You can find a new job, but will that solve the problem? Ask yourself, What would I like to do? Many people build a career around an occupation for the wrong reason. I know doctors with very large incomes, huge homes, luxury cars, and they are miserable. Why? Because, they don’t really love what they are doing. They are stressed, overworked, tired all the time, and their marriages are suffering. Their lives turned out quite different than their expectations. I used to teach fly fishing for a living. Many of my clients would tell me they wish they had my job. Most laborers see the doctor’s homes, cars, fat wallets, and they would love to have the doctor’s lifestyle rather than their own. I realized that these doctors seemed to have everything they could ever want, but they were not happy because the path they took in life was not chosen for the right reasons. If they truly loved what they were doing things might be different. If you don’t like the path you have chosen, it isn’t too late to take another path. You can wake up tomorrow and decide it is time to change. You can start planning a different future. If you like what it is you are doing, but the challenges of the job are stressful, try looking at them in a different way. Look at each challenge as another opportunity to overcome adversity and grow. Add that experience to your resume. It makes you that much more valuable. Remember, a good employee is hard to find and hard to replace. You are the sum total of your experiences. Each new challenge brings a new accomplishment. The more challenges you meet, the more valuable you become. If you decide to choose another path at some point, great, your experience goes with you.