It's a little over midway through the week and the Monday blahs have turned into Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday blahs. And even though Friday may be one day away there is a sense that it will be a blah day to, only receiving saving grace from the fact that there is no work for the next two days after that. So, you trudge through the day, doing your work with a sense of mundaneness surrounding everything you do. Your only saving grace is the one or two people along the route of your day that greet you or fill you in on their or life's current events. Do you remember the first day you began working, either as a teenager in your first job or at the current place. Do you remember the sense of enthusiasm you felt taking that job? (Or if you are retired, semi retired, or a stay at home spouse/parent the excitement you felt about having all this new free time?) For those that are married, what about your wedding day or the day you got engaged, or even better yet, those early days of your courtship? (I know...who uses the word courtship anymore???)
What society has seemed to have lost is enthusiasm. When we in our own lives lose the enthusiasm that got us to where we are today we begin to live such mundane lives. The question is how do we regain that enthusiasm now though? Are we so far in debt when it comes to enthusiasm that we think it is hopeless? Today I am planning my own bailout! I am going to begin regaining my enthusiasm back!
The last place I worked brought my sense of enthusiasm down. I still suffer from the post traumatic stress from my sentence at that facility...er..I mean my time working for such a wonderful establishment. (Can you sense the sarcasm in that sentence I hope???) My sense of enthusiasm in what I do for a living use to be so proud, not it seems like its just something I do at times. I keep remembering my excitement and enthusiasm when I was first married. It'll be 7 years we've been married in may and 12 years we've been together in total. Where did all that enthusiasm go? Mundaneness. But no more!
Sometimes all it takes to seeing the good in what I do at work. It involves reminding myself of what excites me about my relationships with my husband and with others. Today I will make a list of the good things (at least 10 for each) about these areas of my life and I will fold it up and keep it with me at all times in my wallet. When I need to be reminded, all I will need to do is pull that list out and it will remind me of why I am where I am. As my life journey continues, I am sure I will continue to add good things to these lists of the areas of my life.
I think that you picked a good time for the subject of Enthusiasm. It has been a very long winter, we are in the first week of March, and yet there is still snow on the ground, it's still 34 degrees outside, the groundhog froze to death, and where the hell is spring?
ReplyDeleteWe can take the negative and continue to think that spring will never get here, or we can recognize that our average temperature for today is 42 degrees, and by the end of this month, the average temperature will be about 10 degrees higher. This is a very rough time of the year to be enthused. It's like turning a corner, but you're only about half-way around the turn and still hanging on, waiting for the straightaway that you know is just around the corner.
Oh yeah, and once we get around the corner, I almost forgot that there is a tunnel on the other side. There will be a set-back or two, but look for the light at the end of the tunnel.