Happiness at Work

Are you happy in what you are doing? According to a recent report the majority of people working today are not happy. They work for their pay checks. Some of us who felt that way have gone into business for ourselves. We’ve chosen to follow the saying of Confucius that if we “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” It hasn’t always worked out the way we expected. If you start out small, with a limited financial backing, you may find yourself doing the necessary things that you don’t really like doing.

As time goes by, you may feel you are back in the same place you were when working for others. Dissatisfied. The tricks here, I believe, are:
(1) To stay focused on your goal. What was it you wanted to do when you started your business;
(2) To reach out for support from a mentor; and
(3) To find the help you need in the areas that are not your strengths so you can build from your strength.

In the area of Social Networking to grow your business, I can help. Just let me know. jfouchaux@gmail.com

Judie Fouchaux
Creative Crosse Roads
http://jfouchaux.wordpress.com/
http://twitter.com/creativecrosse

Work?

Once I met a man who was giving a group of us a tour of the United Nations. He claimed he had never “worked” in his life. He had been fortunate enough to always have jobs he enjoyed so they had never been work.

Not all of us are that fortunate. I know I’ve definitely had to work at some jobs over the course of my life. Now though, happily I can understand what he meant. From my first explorations into social networking as a career, it was exciting and fun. I’ve met wonderful people and made good friends. I found a challenge in the learning and the doing that won’t get old quickly. Now that I’m actually working in this field I can say “I’m not working any longer.”

The enthusiasm I bring to my work helps clients use social networking to build their businesses with confidence and ease. What a wonderful thing a win-win situation is!

Balance

I have often heard people say they are going into their own business to get balance in their lives. It started me thinking about balance. Often balance is seen in terms of a 50/50 split. I’ll spend half my time on one thing and half on another; half at work and half at home. Like achieving balance is standing with one foot on either side of the fulcrum of a seesaw and struggling to keep the board level. That seems to take a lot of effort. It only works for a short time and under circumstances where the seesaw is stable on the ground.

Most of our lives aren’t that stable. Balance for us, it seems to me, is more like traveling a crowded bus or subway when you don’t have a seat and need to hang on to the overhead strap or a pole to keep from falling down. You achieve balance more easily in these situations by being flexible and hanging on while keeping your body loose to go with the motion.

That seems to work in business too. When feeling overwhelmed or that everything’s moving too fast, be flexible, go with the motion, reach out to a virtual assistant to keep things moving and stable.

As a word wizard and chaos dissolver, I can help. Give me a call at 415-331-7181 or email me at creativecrosse@comcast.net

VAJudie
https://jfouchaux.wordpress.com/