by Christyl Rivers

Created on: August 21, 2010   Last Updated: April 15, 2011

Passion for your work will energize your life.

Your vocation comes from the word “calling.”  You are called to do what speaks to you from the heart.  Your work must reflect what your heart values most for you to have meaning in your life.  The reason  to sustain passion for the work you do is because your work is energy invested that goes somewhere.  We want that energy to create something useful for the world, to make a difference, with our gifts to the world, and to the "living" we make for ourselves, and our families.

People need to feel appreciated.  This means two things.  You will feel appreciated for something you do well.  You will be appreciated for your enthusiasm, drive, and delivery only if you yourself are thankful to be there.  So every job is a contract for you, and your employer, to BOTH be grateful for what you do.  Teachers and healers of many kinds suffer burn out when their passion is overwhelmed by stress, obligations, bureaucracy, and in short, anything that makes one feel more put upon, than appreciated. 

It is important to have associates and friends at work, who both relate to you and for whom, you too can sympathize.  Knowing that you are not alone in the world is both the key to job satisfaction, and the key to life contentment.  It is when we are alienated; both from meaningful work, and meaningful relationships, that we suffer and cannot perform adequately.  Depression and resentment set in easily, and you will recognize you hate the fact that you  have to face walking through that door in the morning.

If you have a stressful position, and most of us do, you need to find ways to refresh and reinvigorate yourself.  Take frequent breaks and use your weekend time for reinforcing those healing hours that connect you to your loved ones, and the outer world.  If you have one of the infamously known “burn out” jobs, you may have to take a year off, and give yourself permission to do so.  We cannot fill others cups of plenty, when our own is empty and dry. This lesson of energy transference is one of many from Nature.

Most people take weekends, and vacations to spend time somewhere revitalizing.  Because it is the earth that provides us with sustenance, it is the more serene parts of earth that allow us to de-stress and be ready to go back to work after a break.  One of the biggest problems faced by us in modern times

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