Improving your workplace satisfaction

It’s really difficult to be satisfied with your work in the modern workplace. 

If you’re working in a team, you can’t always control how beautiful the presentation looks. You can’t control how information is shared in the team. You can’t fully control how your boss reacts to your output. You could be doing everything right personally, and still be not getting good results.

As a result, it’s easy to be dissatisfied and frustrated. You may have had a certain expectation of how good your work could be. But once reality hits, you can kiss those dreams goodbye.

So how are you supposed to solve this issue? The key is to recognize the problem.

Maybe the real reason that you’re not satisfied at work, is that you’re not satisfied. 

Here’s a suggestion: Become fully satisfied with yourself, first.

If you peel back the layers, you’re dissatisfied at work because you’re afraid. You’re afraid that you’ll lose face if this project goes badly. You’re trying to control the outcome so you can maintain your reputation. You’re forcing the world to be exactly as you want it and that’s causing the frustration.

Once you’re content with yourself, you don’t need the work to make you happy. You can allow yourself to be as you are, without needing a great result. Because you know that, deep down, you don’t need anything to be perfect in order for you to be happy.

You’re happy because you’re enough.