Professional, Responsive

Gratitude Scale

Ramadan Moment should even this time we can use as a vehicle to enhance our gratitude to the profession or pekerajaan. By increasing gratitude, then our love will increase. Mozart in his experience, his mother's love is what is genius. Even if we had a few technical expertise in our field, but if the love is gone, maybe genius is not displayed.


Why gratitude that becomes an important success-factor in the work, try or profession? If the view of the meaning of language, philosophy of gratitude that contains a very good life. Meaning of gratitude is shady. We're grateful for the same job as a nice shade tree used as a shelter. Meaning of gratitude is the parasite. Work which we are grateful to our step despite mendinamiskan we're in a place which is not ideal, as parasites that can still grow despite the tree trunk. Meaning of gratitude is praised for his kindness we receive. Work we are grateful for supposing the same as objects that we so greatly value because we believe it is a gift.


If you look at religion, profession or occupation grateful that we can do from the start that low-scale or easy, medium, and reached the highest. Low gratitude are the various forms of gratitude that we express with verbal / speech. For example we express gratitude to God for the profession or occupation in which we live today.


Taught religious people express gratitude to God. Logically how? We are commanded to recognize that the right to be commended for the success or our goodness is not our job or profession, but of God. With the permission of God we finally get a good or achievement. Without goodness, our efforts may not be this good. This is at once an affirmation that we are forbidden to think that all the achievements that we have had absolutely no involvement with their Lord.


While mid-level gratitude is gratitude that we express with words and hearts. Shape, among others, we concluded in our hearts that this day has been a lot of goodness or God's blessings we have received. People who give thanks with grateful hearts can sometimes bad things happen to him, such as businesses affected by layoffs or bankruptcy. Of course that is not grateful for his dismissal, but a mind that is capable of creating conditions grateful or able to release positive energy in responding to negative events by us. This example by believing that if without the goodness of God, maybe that happens could be worse, or believes there is good behind the bad things that we see. Could also be included here the ability to see blessing (benediction) behind Disguise (catastrophe).

Last is celebrating with a greeting, heart, and action. How grateful to the action?


Grateful for the actions that the key is in our ability to use existing potential within us or resource that exists around us, to repair themselves to a higher level, in ways which are not violated. His opponent is Kufr (denial and neglecting). We allow potential and existing resources. We use it in a way that violates or for negative purposes. Or we deny the existence of resources and potential.


In essence, grateful for a job or profession that is programmed in seeing the job outlook and use it for purposes of a more positive and in a positive way. We looked at work today as an asset (not a burden or routines) that we use as repair facilities themselves, such as improving the skills, explore their potential, improve the network, improving performance, and so on.

"It's not success that makes you love the job,

but love is what makes you successful "

(Herman Chain)





From Job Security to the Security Career

According to the survey, for example, has ever done Sirota Survey Intelligence, New York (2000-2004), one might say that all the people for the first time can be grateful for a job or profession. Minimum, with the word oral. We express gratitude to God for our success is received in an agency or employment. Surveys show that almost all people have the "engagement" are very good when she first worked.


But, over time, our gratitude in danger. We start creating a negative opinion towards work, towards the office atmosphere, to the superiors in the office, or on the problematic in the office. Not to mention plus the negative whispers from people around us through gossip, competition, and back-biting. According to the survey, the "engagement" we began to deteriorate after six months of work.


If in those days there was no cleansing the soul that we do, whether by way of their own or facilitated by the office, then we will be very potential to be a "passive-destroyers." We become people who damage our souls. For example we have chosen to protest unfair workload, is not the workload makes it as a learning tool to improve themselves. Or we terkuasi by the lust of dissatisfaction, not using dissatisfaction for repairs. If this is not done immediately purge the soul, then we will be very potential to become people who "active destroyers". We invite or persuade others to think just like us.

"How could I be grateful for my job: not ideal conditions, field-links do not match, the people in office have started there is cut throat competition, promotion has been played by favouritsm, salaries do not rise-up, wherever the job is always to use the system contract? " And so on and so forth.


If you see the "theory" of God, turned out to be grateful it is to deal with the internal solution or an ideal situation which is not ideal at all. Internal solution is important. According to the law of attraction (the law of attraction) that works magic in this world, before we get the external solution, we must create an internal solution first. That is, although we are currently in the middle of the work environment which we think is not at all ideal, but if we succeed in creating conditions grateful mind, then we will certainly get a job or profession that we think is ideal or ideal according to our circumstances. Kesyukurannya not necessarily limited to verbal forms, but using the job today as a resource or asset for self-improvement in a way that does not violate. Use of work to improve technical competence, mental competence, expand networking, explore products, deepen procedures, and so on.


This is different to when we are not grateful. Although we are already in place the ideal, can-can condition our inner bad will drag us into a place which is not ideal. For example we believe is right a career in the profession that we're in.. If we do not use the opportunities that exist for self-improvement, over time we changed the position of an asset to the company's expense. If we violate, would not want the company will issue a policy of expulsion or dismissal.


Thus, gratitude is the cause (the cause) to obtain solutions. Gratitude is the way (the way) to reach their goals. Borrowing a term in career development, if we are thankful, the positions of our careers will be changed from that originally keamananya depends on the job (job security) to depend on the skills / competencies (career security), along with the increasing capabilities and our role.

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

(Will Roger)



Responsive Work That Starts Where?

Where do we begin to appreciate your job or profession? To us who have not received an answer, we need to audit our love is a level of job or profession. Referring to the opinion of Al-Ghazali, Sufism figure, author of "The Alchemy of Happiness" (1883), we love the job or profession that can be grouped into four levels are:

* Lower level is when we love on the job / profession because of the extent we can meet the interests of (unilateral), for example, to the extent that we get paid, status, place, and so on.
* The next level is when we love on the job / profession because there are reciprocal contributions (transactional). This is much like his love for a trader to the purchaser. So far there is love there is a mutually beneficial transaction.
* Level on it is when his love we are bound by the same vision with the people there. We love the profession / job because there are figures, climate, or culture that we think is a good company or a similar vision.
* The top level is when we love on the job / profession is bound by a commitment to beraktualisasi inner-self, we do good because good is good for us and create the world, aka we continue to develop themselves regardless of external circumstances that occurred in the profession or occupation us. If this is realized to run the commands of God, our love will continue Perfected.



In practice, we must make a distinction difficulties in black and white in the top four levels of love. The human mind is complex and dynamic. Leveling love above will be a very fitting that we use as an abstraction that show (self improvement guide). That is, to be grateful for a profession / job should begin efforts to raise the level of our love into the fourth. If not all of them, yes partly. If you can not apply to all circumstances, minimum for a particular situation.


Certainly not enough to just change jobs grateful inner order. There should be specific to the real agenda we run. Important agenda is to be more (raise standards of achievement, increase the ability of a role, raising the target and your goals. Why? If our inner stagnate (satisfied with what they are), will be easily overcome by negative virus, the same as the fate of water does not flow.


Naturally raise standards of achievement are not enough. Should we continue with Learn more (increase and tambahlan expertise, networks, and moral obedience). Learn more we can do themselves or through the assistance of others and the organization. Logically, where maybe we can achieve performance standards that if we had resources and tools-that's all. Stephen Covey said, you will not get different results if you just how and expertise.


Finally, as the actualization, we need to formulate what we can do to improve yourself, Do more (a larger role, working harder, working smarter). In essence, grateful for a job or profession is the key word is, how far we mendinamiskan memprogresifkan inner and our steps and coupled with the awareness that it's all we do to fulfill orders or to search for On Top of His keridloan. Hopefully useful.