Work Ethic

Everything in life that's worth anything requires work. And sure, everyone knows it. Your resume requires work, the way you "market" yourself to the world requires work, your career requires work to get to your goal position, your body requires work to look good, your cooking requires work to taste good, your family requires work to keep the bond tight, your friendships require work to maintain contact and involvement in each others' lives, your relationship requires work to keep it exciting and strong, your car requires tune-up work to run properly, your eyebrows require work, keeping your teeth white requires work, your nails require work, your image requries work, jotting notes and becoming a good presenter requires work, heck even taking time out FROM work to NOT work requires work.

But I think the one thing we aren't taught as kids is that, while getting to your goals requires work...maintaining them requires...well..maintenance. And lots of it. Its true that the hard part is in the achievement of the goal, but so many of us (myself in this group at times) forget that the ongoing is just as important.

So why am I bringing this up? Because I've made a recent vow to myself that while I may mashAllah se have a lot of things I'm priviledged and blessed enough to come by, I'm going to make it a point to revamp my work ethic. Because if I don't, I just might not get to feel this grateful for very much longer. I'm going to take small steps and figure out what work I need to do before I haphazardly throw out lofty goals that I won't be able to commit to.

I'm committed to adding little pockets of work into all of the categories of my acheievements and my relationships and fill those pockets with things I need to always do to help me appreciate them more. I'm going to try my best not to yell "GET A REAL CAREER AND STOP WASTING MY MONEY!" every time my brother tells me about his music major activities in college (try, try try.) I'm going to start small and make an effort to remember just one thing that happens in my friends' lives that we don't really discuss and make a point to be conscious of it - knee injuries, family deaths, broken relationships...whatever it may be. I'm going to have a cheerier disposition at work and remind myself how lucky I am that I have a job that I love and how priviledged I am to have it. I won't bore you with the details on all of the work I've got cut out for myself. But I hope that you notice it in the very near future and I hope I have the good sense and ethic to always work this hard.