Making a Difference in and Outside The Workplace

Making a Difference in and Outside The Workplace

Let me begin by first asking – What good have you done today? For those whose lives have turned mediocre, answering this might be the most difficult task; however those who take pride in their jobs might easily answer – I have done well today with my job.

Perhaps the easiest way to do good in a day is to perform the best way we can in the workplace, because anyhow, Work takes up a large part of our time, energy, and commitment each day. What happened in the workplace is usually the same answer we give when asked – How was your day.

So how do we make our days complete by getting the most of our experience in the workplace? How do we make our day in our jobs exceptional? The Christophers (”Christ-bearers”) would probably answer – By making our faith and personal values influence the way we do our jobs each and every time we’re in the workplace. “Pray and Work” according to St. Benedict. Bringing a sense of holiness and reverence to work makes up for a special attitude towards our jobs and also affects the attitudes of the people around us.

We could use words Passion and Commitment. According to the founder of the Christophers, James Keller in Careers that Change Your World, “In each and every human being, there is great power for good, a ‘bit of the missionary’ implanted by God Himself, which needed only to be developed and brought to bear on an ever-widening scale…” So, we don’t have to be somebody else ‘great’ to make our jobs the best it could possibly be. I addition James Martin, SJ in Becoming Who You Are says, “The problem comes when we… use someone else’s map to heaven when God has already planted in our soul all the directions we need.” It is always up to us how we would be truly passionate and completely committed to our jobs. Now how could we possibly do this?

Let us consider this definition of Success: True Success is about personal and spiritual growth. Now we can relate this to our daily experience in the workplace, particularly, how we, as employees, relate with the people, our colleagues. True success is in the way we treat others – colleagues, family, and all of the community – the people around us.