I am looking for work...............

Definition of a “Job”
A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession, a position in which one is employed.

Ask yourself what is regular about today’s labour market, or what is regular about business today. I would say the word is irregular. Therefore why not look for irregular “jobs”. Being employed nowadays is quite the novelty, maybe we could start a movement that looks down on people with a job rather than those who don’t. Think of how the tables would turn in pubs, restaurants and dinner parties when someone is asked “So what do you do?”

Now the definition as provided by the www. of work

Definition of "Work"

....exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity, proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity, have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected...

Here’s a challenge starting today or even tomorrow if you are not up to it……go and look for work;

Exert yourself
Do something mental
Do something physical
Have a purpose
Find a necessity
Find a path you have never walked down before
Do an activity you have never done before
Set a goal
Make a promise
Have an effect on someone
Have an outcome
Be desired
Be expected

Or

Be Unexpected

Promises, Promises

I have always wondered about goal setting. In my time I have met some very successful people, I remember one person telling me every year they sat down thought about the things they wanted to achieve and what they wanted to happen in both their personal and professional life. There is certainly the argument in favour of setting and writing down personal goals and achievements.

I read recently that a goal such as wanting to climb to the top of a mountain just to get to the top, misses out on the entire journey. The light shining through the forest, the smell of the mountain river and so on. The goal however which focuses on the journey, the here and now, the details on the way up belongs more to the individual. There is a phrase which springs to mind be here now, be someplace else later.

There are always things we want to achieve and I guess sometimes they can get caught up in the journey and may or may not happen. Or we bulldoze through and get what we want. Today I learned something, I have been approaching goal setting in wrong way. Instead of writing specific goals which always get caught up in the here and now. I need to write little promises. A promise is a commitment, something very personal and belongs more to me. Also hard to break!!