The Positive Side of Working Hard

What Moves People to Work so Hard?

Indeed, when people slave away day after day to the point of jeopardizing their health and life, they must have reasons for doing so. The most common and powerful incentive for a person to work hard is to improve his standard of living. Apparently, though, material reward is not all that is involved.

Financial reward is a desired, but almost incidental, incentive. The success of a company’s sales relative to its competitors is a source of immense pride and self-satisfaction. Hard work that contributes to this success has its own reward. Allegiance to their company becomes a reason that employees work hard, and work becomes the only way for them to express their worth. Not to be overlooked, too, is the urge to climb the corporate ladder. The possibility of someday reaching the top remains a strong incentive for hard work.

Proper View of Handwork
• Forget about the job after hours (and) eat dinner with your family. Take good care of your family before anything else. Your work in a company is nothing more than a means to an end.

Indeed, a good family relationship is certainly a worthwhile goal to work hard for. If a warm family atmosphere is endangered or your health suffers because of your work, you are not seeing well for all your hard work.

• Work for the good of others. The truth is, for work to be meaningful, it must benefit others. Satisfying work is work that brings convenience, comfort or pleasure to many people’s lives. Such work brings deep satisfaction to the worker. There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.

• Consider God’s will in whatever undertaking. Are you working in harmony with God’s will or working against it? Are you endeavoring to please God or just to please yourself? If you neglect doing God’s will, you become nothing more than materialist or hedonist and will eventually suffer the pain of loneliness, emptiness, and despair.

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