Deal With Disappointment - Redefine Failure

The fight for one's soul is never the same as that for the flesh. There is more at stake and it's about more than just survival its about BEING. In my previous article, "Climbing Mt. Everest" I pointed out that its hard to be grateful for a job when the employer makes you feel less than who you know you are. So I helped you rant but the truth of the matter is that jobs let us down only if we define ourselves by them. So your boss is another name for a donkey! So what? Having a bad boss can work for one of us in two ways.

Either it can get us depressed or it can help us rethink our goals and re-strategise our lives and our goals. When there is no fun at work we can look forward to spending more time with loved ones. They will benefit from our eagerness to be with them and our presence. It can never happen that one can become a workaholic at a job they don't enjoy or in a job environment they don't enjoy.

Climbing Kilimanjaro or Everest

In life we have so many challenges that come our way. Some big and some small. We only ever really see the size f the challenge when it's over because while going over and through it, it always feels like we are attempting to climb Mount Everest.

This recession is a good example of a time when people are really being challenged mostly at work. I've heard people say 'be glad you have a job' even when one is being abused at work. Some employers are failing to maximise on their employees' abilities, creativeness and enthusiasm to help sustain and save their companies from closure. They are frustrating workers because they have nowhere to go, there are no jobs out there!

There are lot of unhappy, disgruntled and demotivated employees. Morale is at its lowest and some employers see docile employees as employees that would have conformed. Some bosses don't realise that an unhappy employee is hardly one full of fresh ideas and enthusiasm to even try and or implement new ideas.