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What are your beliefs about work ?
About a year ago, I asked my readers the question:”What Is Your Belief System About Money ?”
I got awesome answers from you and I published these in the post Belief Systems About Money – What Oliver Tausend’s Readers Say
Last week, my family and I visited the Voelklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site, a former raw iron production plant that is a giant museum today or rather a monument of industrialisation.
It was shut down in 1986 and thousands of workers lost their jobs in the Saarland, the smallest of Germany’s federal states.
When I was walking through the installations, it dawned on me that people working there probably had the hardest jobs on this planet, especially at the blast furnaces and in other heat areas where labour conditions were determined by heat, cold, wind, dirt, dust, noise and life-threatening dangers.
However, the iron workers were very proud of their jobs and demonstrated against the shut down back in the 1980ies.
So I asked myself the question what their extremely hard and dangerous work meant to them – and what the topic of work and the ideas around it mean to me.
If you watched my lesson plan video about Think and grow rich and the chapter of decision , you will have an idea now about my work conditioning.
When I did this lesson plan, I realized that my former financial struggles are not rooted in misconceptions about money, but in misconceptions about work.
WORK – I’d like to know from you now
–> What are your ideas about it in general and your work in special ?
–> What about your conditioning ? Does your labour today and the way you do it today correspond to your childhood and youth programming or not ?
–> What are your favourite myths and misconceptions about it that were drummed into you – or that you learned someplace else ? Funny ones, sad ones, teaching ones, whatever…
–> If they did, how did these beliefs hinder you from achieving success ? What did they cost you ?
–> If they did, how did they help you ?
Please share your thoughts and ideas in the comment section.
I will create a specific blog post with the best answers and reward you with a link back to your blog (!).
To get an impression about this place and the working conditions there, you may want to watch this little slide show – would you have wanted to work there ?
Next post in this series: What Are My Beliefs About Work ?
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I think that in the situation of the world today most of the people do not need to work at all. We have so much wealth but we dont know what to do with all this. Since we still need to work than I think you just have to love what you do
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:18
Hi Anna,
you are so right, there’s plenty of wealth, but most of them are scaring it away with their working habits.
Thanks for your comment.
Take care
Oliver
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When it comes to work (any type of work, educational, volunary, charity or paid) I believe that a person must but their very very best into it otherwise there is no point doing it at all!
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:15
Hi Harriet,
thanks for your comment. I like that: Putting the best into it…
Take care
Oliver
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I think that people will eventually stop working unless they really love it..
all the rest will simply raise their children and educate the rest
Michael
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:14
Hi Michael,
thanks for your comment. Interesting perspective…
Take care
Oliver
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I believe to be successful and achieve at the work you do, you have to love it. Not like it, collect a paypacket, do a good job or go through the motions, but really love doing it – this is what inspires and motivates me. I make it my business to always over-deliver and give value to my customers -the success and financial gain follow as a consequence.
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:13
Hi Midge,
thanks for your comment. I like your mindset of over-delivering. It will always pay off, no doubt about it.
Take care
Oliver
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Work and I have a funny relationship. When I love what I’m doing, or when I feel it’s necessary for other aspects of a larger project, then I’m rather a workaholic. I can’t stop until it’s finished. However, if it’s something I feel is pointless, illogical, or detrimental to myself (like most scenarios in Corporate America workplaces) then I finally decided it’s not worth doing at all! Hence why I am now a freelance writer. I do the work I love and choose, and nothing else. It’s really been a great one for my stress and self-esteem!
Delena
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:12
Hi Delena,
thanks for your comment. Glad to hear that you found a solution for yourself that makes you happy.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: lani_kee
says:
Aloha Oliver, great post and subject. I think for most of us, we have misconceptions of work, in the bible it tends to mention your deeds are your blessings and what you put forth is what you get. Rather you work for a company which most of us have done or still do. It is a blessing.
A transitional shift is occurring and some of us accepts this change of direction to work for ourselves, which maybe the hardest, because we are not taught or trained to be in business for ourselves. So most fail and some survive. Far as I know, either way its our stepping stones in life to get where we want to go. Be grateful and have a cheerful heart doing it, it makes journey more pleasant. Glad I came by and thanks for sharing! Mahalo, Lani
PS.. Video clip emphasized hard labor and to be honest I don’t think I would be working in that environment, but with exception. If life has no other options.
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:03
Aloha Lani,
thanks for your comment,
I agree that most of us have misconceptions about work…due to traditional schooling where kids are conditioned to become employees or soldiers.
I also second you on the blessings of being grateful and having a cheerful heart.
Glad you like my post…
Take care
Oliver
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Great topic Oliver! The comments are almost as interesting as your article. Historically deep abiding fear has run … no make that galloped through the generations in my family. There’s only been one time I fell prey to insecurity and that was when a former employer assigned me Japan as part of my sales territory. The list of limiting beliefs for that was far too long to list here – I didn’t speak the language, I was a woman and every other company at the time had assigned men to work that market, other companies already had already cornered the market … and on, and on. Well, I got through it – successfully worked that market for 4 years, increased our market share 40% and beat the pants off (figuratively speaking of course) off the guys!
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 10:59
Hi Marquita,
thanks for your comment and congratulations to your success in Japan. My hat goes off for you
You mention a very important word at the the beginning of your comment: It’s fear. It’s our conditioned mind and its fear-creating mechanisms that prevent us from embracing change.
Take care
Oliver
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I feel the general conception of an “employee” is that we can be (and have been) at effect of our employers. I believe that it can be empowering to consider that our employers buy our abilities and skills from us, so our employer is actually our customers. Looking at it that way makes it more empowering. Lets face it, we can choose to go work elsewhere or for ourselves when the opportunity arises.
Early conditioning at school was the need to be educated and qualified via exams as well as having to know what to do as a life long career. Now, whilst that may have been applicable in certain areas, perhaps such as the iron works you have featured or maybe the former cotton mills in the north of the UK or the coal mining industries, that may have been applicable. Now, we have a global marketplace where anyone can connect around the world through the internet.The idea of a career is become more and more outdated these days. We have to be prepared for change.
I also believe that anything we want materially is actually free, however we choose to shorten the time required, thereby buying to save time.
For instance, all my articles over the last few years, and particularly those in the last six months are available free. I’m choosing to create an ebook (2 in fact) where all can be downloaded. This I intend to sell online. The point is, why would someone buy something they can get for free? It is for the reasons I describe – convenience. It’s the same reason people buy convenience, pre-cooked food instead of growing, preparing and cooking themselves.
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 10:55
Hi Marty,
thanks for your throughtful comment. I love your examples with the cotton mills and coal mining. The idea of a life-long career has become obsolete, even before the advent of the internet.
I also like the idea that people buy convenience. It is true, I do so as well.
And you are right: Most of the stuff is free, especially online tools and information. And paid stuff is not necessarily better than free stuff.
Thanks again for stopping by.
Take care
Oliver
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This post really made me stop and think. My beliefs around “work”? Because I made a conscious decision several years ago to work and live by “inspiration”, I understand the misconceptions about work. That work has to somehow be “hard” in order to be significant. I had to look at that misbelief in my own life. I now know that if I am doing what I’m created to do, the money can come from anywhere! And it does! Once I changed my belief system, I became a very happy camper
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 10:50
Hi Martha,
thanks for your beautiful comment. If it comes easy, it’s not worth it and not significant, that’s also one of my misconceptions. Good luck I am correcting it now…
Take care
Oliver
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When it comes to work, we have to be patient and persistent because we cannot achieve the goals if we’re not… I always believe that if we have courage to try and the faith to believe, there is nothing in this world that is hard to achieve…
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Oliver Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 10:49
Hi Sheila,
thanks for your comment. You mention some very important ingredients of success: Patience, persistence, courage and faith.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: adriennesmith40
says:
I had to really think about this one Oliver.
I guess my idea about work in general would be that it’s always been ingrained in my head since childhood that you had to get a good education in order to get a good job that would support your family. Of course that was the men that would make enough to support the family, never the woman. But I was told that I’d have to work hard in order to make money so I had never known any differently I guess until about four years ago.
I now work out of the comfort of my own home doing what I love doing. I find myself working a lot because it’s not really work to me. Had I not been introduced to more personal development and realizing that I can be, do and have what I truly want from life, I would still be stuck doing work that I didn’t enjoy.
I now know that what my parents were taught, they just shared with us. They didn’t know any better either so until we learn and discover other options, we will all remain thinking the same thoughts.
Hope that helped answer some of your questions. Enjoyed this post and will look forward to seeing what others will share.
Adrienne
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 12:57
Hi Adrienne,
so true: Our parents passed on to us what they learned from their parents – and they never questioned it. Neither does our generation in most cases, sadly enough. The trouble is that they defend their way until the very end as soon as they realize that someone tries to break that pattern, they feel threatened because they only see their world and think it’s everything.
Younger generations have the right and the duty to do different things and do things differently regardless of their parents’ conditioning and emotions, if necessary against their will. If our parents weren’t able to love us unconditionedly, it’s obvious that this is the case because they weren’t loved unconditionedly by their parents. But we have the duty to love our children unconditionedly regardless if our parents were able to do so or not. Someone has to start to break that cycle, otherwise this game will never end…
Thanks for your thoughtful and personal comment.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: ilkaflood
says:
Hi Oliver,
About “work in general” my mother always told me to “finish what I started.” I had to finish my apprenticeship in retail before following my heart into art and graphic design. By the time, I was done with my apprenticeship she got sick and then passed away. I needed my job to survive and wasn’t able to follow my heart until many years later.
So was it good advice? In a way yes, but I have mixed feelings. We are happier if we do what we love.
Those iron workers loved what they did or they wouldn’t have protested against the closing of the plant. They were proud of their profession and they didn’t mind the conditions.
Another thing I would like to add, since I’m working for myself now, I’m working harder than I ever did when working for someone else. I’m sure many of my fellow networkers would agree.
Thanks for sharing another great post!
Ilka
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 12:50
HI Ilka,
no boss will ever be harder on ourselves than we are, lol
The iron workers were also afraid of losing their jobs and they are also used for political propaganda purposes…but of course I agree with you that they were proud of their profession and had a sense of purpose and importance.
Thanks for sharing your personal insights here, appreciate that very much.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: bobandrosemary
says:
Hi Oliver,
My belief system around work was definitely formed around my parent’s beliefs — go to a good school, get a degree, get a good paying job and work hard, hopefully to advance.
My Dad stayed with the same company for over 40 years right out of college, until early retirement due to a heart ailment. When I quit my first job for a higher paying job, I actually felt guilty, thinking I should be more loyal to those who hired me first.
Talk about being pre-programmed.
These beliefs cost me in both time and opportunity when I first attempted to switch over to an entrepreneurial mode of making a living. I found the concept of residual income difficult to navigate.. making money from the work of others was foreign to me.
It has taken me literally years to come to terms with it and understand it’s power. It has been a long road but I am making substantial headway.
Goes to show you the power of parental conditioning!
Attention parents!
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 12:15
Hi Bob,
I second you on your call to attention ! That is so true. It’s so natural that kids are conditioned to become wage slaves that most educators aren’t even aware of alternatives. They’re not saying that being an employee is the best alternative. They don’t have to because it’s engrained in people’s minds, in the school system, in the curriculae, in the parents’ expectations and so on so forth.
I don’t want my kids to be conditioned like that and we give our best to navigate them through the currents of the official school system.
I can so relate to your struggles to accept that it’s OK to have others work for you and get paid for their efforts but it seems that you got over it ?
Thanks for your thoughtful and personal comment.
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
I love work.
I know that I already said that on your facebook post, but I’m serious.
I tend to be the personality type that looks for the easy way to get something done, but it’s not to avoid work. I love the feeling of good day’s work where there is something to show for my efforts.
Now, in the “content creation” world of work, one of my biggest struggles is that I can work and work and work, and not feel like I got enough done. However, every sentence, every video, every keynote…etc. is progress, and someday it will all add up to a package that is very valuable.
Anyway, good post Oliver,
Martin Dale-your friend in business
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 12:04
Hi Martin,
thanks for your comment. I can so relate to what you’re saying about content creation. Glad to hear that I am not alone with this feeling
We have to love that we’re never done with our work.
The famous author Umberto Eco is said to have an anti-library that contains the books he didn’t read. And his anti-library is bigger and even menacingly growing faster than the library. He exposes him constantly to the fact that he has more unread books than read ones – and doesn’t suffer from it. He loves it that he didn’t read the bulk of this book and will never be able to read them.
What that’s the lesson for work ? Our works consists of jobs and anti-jobs, tasks we get done and tasks we don’t get done – and we have to be able to embrace the fact that the number of jobs we don’t get done exceeds the number of jobs we get done – and be in peace with ourselves and love ourselves no matter what.
Well, and the desire to find the easy way to get things done, that’s awesome because it induces you to be creative and to work smart.
Awesome comment.
Take care
Oliver
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Oh, one more thing…
I wouldn’t have wanted to work in the factory shown in the slideshow, unless I was given a position to fully exercise my gifts and talents. I do not find fulfillment and security doing the same thing everyday. However, I do find fulfillment in discovering new ideas and visions that will change or improve an environment. Therefore I would have loved working there if I was given a visionary position.
I don’t know if you put that slideshow together or not, but it was well done.
Martin
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 12:09
Hi Martin,
thanks for add-on
I find it fascinating how people were mastering the four elements in this plant because that’s what raw iron and steel production is all about: Mastering fire, water, air and earth. That doesn’t mean that I would have wanted to work there either…
Yes, I put the slideshow together with the photos I took at our visit with the aid of iPhoto
. The background music is an audio swap track form YouTube, thanks for the compliment 
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
You’ve touched upon some great points here. So much of our programming from youth may affect us all the way through adulthood. I’ll answer your questions…
Q: What are your ideas about it in general and your work in special ?
A: I’ll work all the days of my life. Even when I’m retired I’ll still work be it in the garden or in the gym. It keeps the juices flowing! My work now recharges and rejuvenates me and my spirit.
Q: What about your conditioning ? Does your labour today and the way you do it today correspond to your childhood and youth programming or not ?
A: My parents raised me to work hard. They gave me chores and I was expected to them or face the consequences. My parents also led by example by working hard, working over-time at their jobs, and would work on projects during the weekends. My youth programming has carried through to adulthood.
Q: What are your favourite myths and misconceptions about it that were drummed into you – or that you learned someplace else ? Funny ones, sad ones, teaching ones, whatever…
A: That working hourly and climbing the corporate ladder is the only way…
Q: If they did, how did these beliefs hinder you from achieving success ? What did they cost you ?
A: They blessed me with that lesson. I was never one to accept the status quo so hearing that the 9-5 gig was the only way only fueled my desire to blaze a new trail.
Thanks, Oliver!
-Jon
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 11:56
Hi Jon,
thanks for your thoughtful and powerful comment. I love the Q & A structure, great job.
A good work ethic is certainly an asset, but the question I asked myself is:”Is working hard a good work ethic ?” It’s a work ethic, but is it also a good one that empowers us and gives us a sense of purpose and importance other than putting food on the table ?
I am glad for you that you never accepted the status quo and were able to blaze a new trail. Keep up great work !
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Oliver;
About work in general, I think the satisfaction, or even pride, of doing a job well is a very important part. I seriously doubt that the workers at the plant enjoyed their work very much, but it gave them a sense of purpose and feeling of achievement.
Personally, I prefer work that I like. Pride and satisfaction are obviously important but not the primary criteria.
About preconceptions: The concept that work is… well, work. It’s hard, unpleasant and not something that I would enjoy. I realize that it’s just a misconception but still have to remind myself of it once in a while, before jumping in to work.
PS: Nice post. People often focus on the ‘joy’ part of the work only and ignore the ‘pride’.
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Oliver Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 11:51
Hi Ankesh,
thanks for your initial comment on my blog, appreciate that. I also can see that they had a sense of purpose and a feeling achievement – and their hard jobs put food on the tables of their families. Whether they enjoyed it or not, is hard to tell, but there’s certainly a sense of pride and also fellowship among co-workers.
Work is work, that’s true and more often than not we do it for the work’s sake because we got used to it and our parents did it as well.
Come back soon and take care
Oliver
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Twitter: marcus_baker
says:
Hi Oliver,
I loved reading this post and the follow up comments. It’s a topic that has featured prominently in my thoughts for many years. In fact it’s one I could write screeds about so I’ll attempt to curb any personal rant that gets out of hand. Ha ha.
I can’t help feeling that semantics plays a role here so one has to ask what we mean by the word, “work”.
Does it mean being employed? Does it mean doing what you don’t enjoy? Both? Neither?
I’ll define it simply as “being in a state of doing”, in other words, being busy, regardless of whether as an employee or business owner and regardless of whether you love what you do or not.
I do believe however that the extent to which you love what you do will strongly influence whether you regard “work” as positive or negative. Most people who love what they do don’t even think of themselves as working.
I for one would not have enjoyed working in the Ironworks. To me that would have been far more like work than what I do now.
The question is why do we have to be continually working? I can remember at the age of 10 wondering why on earth adults worked as they did for 50 weeks a year to have 2 off for vacation. To me this seemed insane. Who agreed to this madness?
For most of us, it is because this is what we have come to accept as the way to earn a living and also as a way to define who we think we are. This is why after being introduced to someone, almost always, the next question we ask is “What do you do?” It’s what our parents did and their parents and so on.
Most of us grow up believing that we must to work to live and to give our lives some kind of context.
From that young age I was never able to accept that God or the Divine Intelligence had created so much perfection in the Universe (take the human body system for instance) and yet had not provided us with a much higher non physical intelligence to function more optimally.
Whenever I suggested this to my parents, teachers and other adults, they laughed at me saying what would I know I was just a child, that I was dreaming, unrealistic and read too much science fiction.
As I got older I learnt from these same people that my viewpoint was now equated with wanting the easy way out, of desiring to be lazy. Nothing could have been further from the truth however.
Not wanting to be tagged forever as unrealistic and lazy I relented and conformed and spent many years chained to the idea of working hard to get what I wanted in life. It never felt right to me.
As I studied Metaphysics later in life and allowed myself to ask and find the answer to “Who am I?”, I discovered that my intuition had been right all the time.
We can’t find any fulfilling meaning in identifying with an impermanent activity like a job, business or work and secondly I discovered human beings are indeed endowed with powers far beyond what most of us claim.
We don’t have to do nearly as much work as most of us do. We can eliminate a huge amount of this by simply aligning our energy and using our ability to create in thought. This does not mean that we do no work but rather that we create more and work less, to achieve the same if not better outcome.
Many people say that the laws of the universe like the law of attraction don’t work like magic but I can attest to the fact that this is exactly how it feels to use these powers.
This is not because they are supernatural in nature but because we fail to acknowledge and accept how natural a part of us they are.
Consequently my beliefs about work these days very different to my early conditioning
I loved how your story about a visit to the Voelklingen Ironworks prompted this post Oliver and I think your guiding questions are excellent thought provokers too. Well done!
~Marcus
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Oliver Reply:
June 29th, 2011 at 14:00
Hi Marcus,
wow, I am blown away, thanks for your wonderful guest post
I agree that we should define what we are talking about. Work is not only being employed although it seems sometimes that it’s the only kind of work that really counts – being the breadwinner in contrast to being the housekeeper and child-raiser, even in contrast to the entrepreneur and employer. Very important is also that we are a commuter who spends countless hours in road traffic and pollutes the air
With the “state of doing” begin my problems…Is doing a state or a process ? And what are we ? Human doings or human beings ? Chances are we’re both.
However, you’ll see how much people are attached to doing instead of being if their “doing”, in most cases their job, is taken away from them, for whatever reason. It seems that their being, their life, was taken away from them.
Even some internet marketers are job-driven. I once ran into a successful internet marketer who explained to everybody that she has a real job. What ?
I don’t want a real job and I don’t care what others think about my doing so I wouldn’t waste any time to explain anything to anybody. I would rather say:”Yes you are right, I don’t have a real job and I don’t want one. In fact, who wants one ?”
The question is also: Do we really have to work continually ? We need money to put food on the table continually, but work ? The link between work, especially continual work and continual money supply is a false one, even though most people live by that pattern and die with it, having it passed on to their children and children’s children as a “legacy”.
I absolutely second you on that one: Work less and create more. I would add: Aren’t we all co-creator because even they creator of this universe can’t do it alone ?
Thanks again for your thoughtful and personal comment and adding tremendous value to the discussion.
I appreciate you.
Take care
Oliver
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Marcus Baker
Twitter: marcus_baker
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July 3rd, 2011 at 04:17
Hi Oliver,
I guess I did kind of write a guest post by writing such a long comment but pleased you saw value in it Oliver. I knew you would and it all just flowed until it stopped. You are most welcome and I appreciated reading your response to my comment. I agree with you on all your points.
~Marcus
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Oliver Reply:
July 3rd, 2011 at 18:07
Hi Marcus,
what should I say ? Let it flow…
Thanks for your response…
I appreciate you.
Take care
Oliver
Oliver,
What a great topic.
About the work in general, i believe in doing what you love. I never like the 9-5 jobs, I’ve seen people getting high education, then getting good jobs…! To be honest i just hate those jobs, and that’s the main reason why i choose blogging. I spent countless hours, work on holidays, weekends & sometimes don’t even sleep – because I love the work i do.
Thanks for sharing this awesome post.
Dev
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Oliver Reply:
June 29th, 2011 at 13:36
Hi Dev,
thanks for your comment and my congrats to being in your purpose and loving what you do.
Take care
Oliver
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I agree to Dev because it’s important that you love what you’re doing. If youare not enjoying your work it is impossible to attain your goal… I love working online..
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Oliver Reply:
July 3rd, 2011 at 18:25
Hi Terry,
thanks for your comment.
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Oliver,
What a thought-provoking post.
You know, I’m one of those who don’t like selling. I discovered this when I had a short stint as an insurance agent. I dreaded approaching people and offering my product. I thought I just needed more exposure and practice so I applied for an outbound sales agent job and I realized that it’s not really my thing. I again dreaded calling customers and it was really an effort just going to work even if I constantly motivated myself. It came to a point that I had to end my suffering.
With these realizations, I had to change my beliefs that working is not only just to earn but I have to love or at least like what I do and believe in the products or services I am offering to succeed.
Now, I’m happier working at home and being with my kids and spending more time with my family.
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Oliver Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 10:51
Hi Theresa,
thanks for your thoughtful and personal comment. Most people don’t like to sell and they don’t like to be sold to either, even sales persons.
At the end of the day, products have to be moved from company to customer, the question is how it is done, by selling techniques and persuasion or relationship building and know, like and trust.
Congratulations that you made the change to the better for you and your family.
Take care
Oliver
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Hey Oliver,
Interesting topic. Like most people, I followed my parents’ belief system – go to school, get a degree, get a good paying job and work hard until you retire.
Now, I believe in doing what I love. I don’t mind the sleepless nights doing what I’m passionate about.
It boils down to personal satisfaction and the feeling of achievement when you pursue what you enjoy doing.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
All the best,
Mavis
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Oliver Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 10:49
Hi Mavis,
you mention something that should be very important when it comes to work: Doing what we love, personal satisfaction and a sense of achievement !
That’s just brilliant, thanks for sharing your insights.
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Connie,
as the topics success and family are naturally unrelated, there’s no need to prefer one over the other – we can have it all.
Thanks for your comment.
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Nabeel,
thanks for your comment.
Take care
Oliver
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