Be A Peaceful Warrior For Hope

Bob Rosner at ABCNews’s Working Wounded quasi-blog has some thoughts on the question of How Can We Create a Better Work Place?

He quickly addresses topics like technology (he makes some very good points here), greed, and developing a “not-to-do list” before finishing with hope.

The biggest thing that we need at work today is hope. Yes, we need to believe that it is worth the time and trouble to create a better workplace. We spend far too much time at work to be so accepting of all work’s shortcomings. Let’s all rededicate ourselves to creating a work experience that justifies all those hours that we put in week after week.

I’ve come to find that hope is that one essential quality for helping us move toward our most desired dreams. It’s what helps us pick ourselves off the mat after taking a roundhouse to the chin. Hope is like a polaris helping us find our way toward a destination. Hope fuels a ferocious determination to not give in to the forceful, smirking ogres who go by names such as You-Can’t-Do-That, You’re-Not-Good-Enough, and Give-Up-Now-For-Resistance-Is-Futile.

So, here’s the challenge: Take a step back and reengage those inherent abilities we all have for awareness. Start to recognize the previously accepted shortcomings of our work. Connect how they violate our own dreams for what we want our work to be. Whenever the ogre called That’s-Just-How-It-Is-Here begins to peek around a corner, take a sword and go hunting. Be a peaceful warrior for our deepest desires of what we hope work can be.