Self-improvement – Towards moral virtue?

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By Stephen Russell-Lacy. Most of us are only too aware of some of our weaknesses. Things like low self-esteem, worry, or being judgmental. We realise that we fall short of what we regard as our ideal self and that this calls for some self-improvement. Yet what we each mean by self-improvement probably differs. What kind of … Continue reading Self-improvement – Towards moral virtue?

Stress – How to find lasting relief?

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Do you hear yourself saying I don’t have the time – to do all my job requires, spend quality time with the children, to relax with my partner, fix the car, weed the flower bed and mow the lawn, etc. Feeling under pressure most of the time is not good for your health. If you … Continue reading Stress – How to find lasting relief?

Job satisfaction – How to find it?

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To many people, work seems to be a humdrum monotonous time that goes on and on involving much the same thing day after day. Spiritual healing is needed in some work places. It is true that being a small cog in a big factory or organisation, it may be hard to see that we are contributing any real service to the community but people can assume that other jobs like house-keeping, gardening or labouring are necessarily uninteresting.

The attitude we bring to a job can have a big effect on whether or not we find it boring. Do we have negative or positive reasons for what we are doing at work?

An occupation can exercise a positive pull on some workers as when it brings its own rewards for them. One example is the opportunity to learn on the job.