On the altar of office politics and work place success and survival, your profile leans on your performance at work above all else. Obviously, this is one reason you don't want to be left out when it comes to excellence at performing your tasks.
Surely, you will still have envious colleagues and superiors hating on you for your excellence, but they will all be helpless about you. For instance, when malicious rumours are brought before the members of the management, those rumours don't get heeded easily because even the management need and respect you for your excellent performances.
So, we discuss how to take care of task knots as a means of ensuring excellence at your job on a daily basis.
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The burden of career stress is the cause of early aging in many working people. Photo credit: careeradvisor.asia |
Every accountant should be familiar with what I prefer to refer to as 'financial parallax error'. One of its occurrence is a situation whereby a humongous money value appears at the totals, but every attempt to trace the value to the body of the calculations appear totally impossible. Although I'm no professional accountant, I know this from the different informal accounting roles I've played in my life and career. So I believed the error should be common in an accountant's job.
If you have run into financial parallax before, you surely will agree it was far far from fun. Was it? Nor are such task knots peculiar to parallax or to an accountant's job.
The tasks you encounter at work daily, come with their 'unexpecteds' that will often run into most bewildering complex situations. Just one of such can keep your stress levels as high as heavens themselves and for so long that I dare to hold it forth as the single undiscovered most common cause of early aging among working people.
How do you cope with such situations as financial parallax? Surely, going by what academic psychology teaches, you must have already developed your own coping mechanisms. But, right here, I share with you the simplest most effective way ever that I have used to overcome task knots no matter how they come and in whatever form, saving myself lots and lots of stress.
This is it: I turn my mind away from the task and from myself. By a subtle (not struggling) application of my will, I turn my mind first to neutral and hold it there. What I call 'neutral' here, is a truly and totally blank state of mind, a tabula rasa as it is called. You must not achieve a total tabula rasa though to be successful in this. But the closer you get to it, the more likely you will succeed.
The aim of this exercise is not to disconnect your brain from you biologically, but instead, to disconnect your mind completely from humanity and its debris of base concerns that clog up the mind and spirit unnecessarily - as a preparation for the next step which has absolute importance for the present purpose.
The next step is about connecting to my Divinity. Once I truly enter my divine levels, the difficulty simply resolves with little or no adoes whatsoever: if you have practiced the previous step well, the telling sign is that you should be feeling tingly mentally, absolutely refreshed. And that should take you no more than 5 minutes to pull off. But, you are not expected to count time. Instead, just soar in the spirit for as long as it takes you to achieve a tabula rasa and then, connect to your Divinity. You might be wondering what this is supposed to mean. Well, it's no mystery at all as you will surely see just now.
As I have already said, in your 'neutral' you are expected to disconnect your mind from not only the task at hand, but also from virtually everything. To help you do this, I tell you this: Do you ever consider the case of someone who just died? How all his plans, worries and concerns gets abandoned in one brief instant? Now, I tell you that if YOU should die just now, all those your worries and bothers will no longer matter. Does this call for a fearful or irresponsible living? Certainly not. Instead, I urge you to learn from that why and how to disconnect your mind as I have already posited. Just imagine what the world and all its cares would mean to you JUST NOW if you were to be here and now dead! Now, try creating such mental scenario for a few minutes and you have achieved what I call your mental 'neutral' or a tabula rasa. Try it now and I promise you will soon be getting addicted to it.
What you feel doing this might be the state of euphoria people seek in drugs except that it is without the damaging chemical effects of drugs. It's certainly a great mental state to attain but, as far as easing off task knots are concerned, you are not stopping there or you might be at the risk of being irresponsible. So, on we go.
How do you enter your divine level of mind that gets the knot resolved? First of all, you need to realize that by 'Divinity' I mean the Being of being, commonly called 'God' by the streeters. I mean This Real Being responsible for our very existence, who crafted us as we are - eye, ear, mind, body and all - and the entire Universe which we are witnesses to, every moment. Second, you need to realize that this Divinity is more real than anything else that is real. He is the Reality behind the reality of anything or anyone else what/whosoever.
But Divinity is so great in dimension that our human natural faculties cannot grasp Him directly - so we say that He is invisible. Oh yes, Divinity is invisible TO US. As a scripture puts it, "God is spirit" (John 4:24).
We already mentioned that Divinity is the Reality behind the reality of everything and everyone. When it comes to us human beings, how in fact is God or Divinity the Reality behind our realities? Go into yourself and REALIZE yourself. Note the word 'realize' here, how it has a common root with the word 'real' and 'reality' and notice the connection. Realize that the REAL YOU cannot be seen with the natural human eye and yet, as you can testify even here and now, YOU are no less real. Oh yes, your guess is as good as mine: YOU are an invisible REALity, a spirit just like God. You are a copy of Divinity. It is what the ancients got as a revelation when they declared that we are made in the 'image and likeness' of God (Genesis 1:26) and also when they declared to us, "I tell you, you are gods" (Psalm 82:6 and corroborated by Jesus Christ on John 10:34).
In actuality however, we are not copies of God the way a photocopy is of the original. We are not copies meant to be apart from the Original. Instead, we are meant to be parts and parcels of the Original, much like but far superior to, how a branch is a copy of the tree. It is the fact Jesus was at pains to make available to our human awareness level when he is quoted as saying in His Divinity, 'I am the Vine and you are the branches' (John 15:5). We are not just Divine copies, we are are Divine kinds and more that we may never be able to say at the contemporary evolution of our language.
But...how do all these concern you when we are only talking about the mere question of you handling your daily tasks efficiently with less tear and wear? Are we not like killing a fly with a sledge hammer? If you understood how spiritual are your daily tasks and life, you would know we are not yet going over the board here. For one thing, every task you embark on is a part of you obeying the Creator's instruction for us to 'subdue the earth and replenish it'. Again, we are talking about solving your daily task difficulties by taking advantage of your so called spiritual powers. We need to stop mystifying some of these things. And your task difficulties are not 'mere' any way. After all, they can make you age faster than you should.
So, what do you do when faced with an inexplicable task knot? How do you take advantage of these things we have been saying? One, instead of spending - or better, wasting - your spiritual/mental energy worrying about the task, after getting to your 'neutral' as already said, visualize your spirit as one with the Almighty Spirit of God. Let your humanity get lost in the Great Divine as a teaspoonful of water would get lost in an ocean and still be existing. The teadpoonful of water, when poured into the ocean, does not lose its essence. What it loses is it's form of existence: from limited to limitless. It is able to merge with the mighty Ocean only because, it was already a mini copy of the Ocean. Now... now... yes now, as a part of the Ocean, the power of the Ocean becomes the power of what was once a teaspoonful. It is carried on the shoulder of a Giant and, therefore, it is reckoned with as a giant. There is no other way to perform a miracle than this.
Dear reader, my own dear reader, please listen to me: YOUR spirit is this teaspoonful in question here, and the ever abiding Divine Spirit, the Imman-u-El of Psalm 139, is the Divine Ocean. It is in This Divine Ocean "we all live and move and are" (Act 17:28). And, as valid mini copies of this Great Divine Ocean, we human spirits have a special opportunity of merging with it. When we do, we rule over the world and its difficulties such as our task, personal and social difficulties.
So, how do you apply all these when faced with a thorny situation here and now? Close your eyes, get to your neutral, then, by sheer power of your faith, visualize your spirit here and now as ONE with the Almighty Divinity (at the very point of your difficulty). Soak your consciousness in that state of your spiritual Oneness with the Almighty Spirit with whom nothing is ever difficult. As you do this, the difficulty before you resolves and dissolves. Quite often, you suddenly realize what you should have done and you know without a single doubt that that's the right course to follow. And, as you follow that course, resources, both physical and human, get delivered to you. But, there are zillion other ways the solution comes.
What you have read is inspired from Above to help YOU enjoy your work the more, whether you are a work-at-home mom, a factory worker, a white collar executive, a business owner, a government rep or whoever. It is one of such inspired thoughts I am given from time to time and called 'Wisdom From Heaven'. You can click on 'Home' below to read more and/or look below for the relevant SHARE buttons. Thank you.