In the excerpt below, world-renowned yogi, Sadhguru, offers insights on how simple shifts in your perspective and approach to your work life can make a big difference in both the experience of your job and quality of the work that you do. Sadhguru is the founder of the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences, a destination for classical yoga and meditation retreats in McMinnville, TN.
Sadhguru#1 Stop Working “Hard”
“Right from childhood, nobody told us to study joyfully or work lovingly. People have always told us, ‘When you study, study hard. When you work, work hard.’ People do everything hard, but then end up complaining that life is not easy.
The very nature of the ego is such that it wants to do everything hard because its only concern is to be one step above somebody else. It is a very sad way to live. When that is the whole effort, doing everything hard naturally becomes a source of satisfaction for people. If they do things joyfully, it feels like they haven’t done anything at all.
Isn’t it wonderful when you do many things but you still feel like you haven’t done anything? That is how it should be. You may be working 24-hours of the day, but if you still feel like you have not done anything, then you do not carry the burden of everything upon you.