…"Find happiness outside the office and your boss will thank you, too!"

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I love to read. In fact, I believe one of THE best things you can do for yourself is pick up a great book and start reading. As the saying goes, “if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.” I sincerely believe knowledge, therefore, is the greatest form of love you can ever give to anyone. Not only does it keep one young, full of life and hopeful, learning new things actually biologically creates new proteins in the mind.

About a year ago I read a book called “Fire Your Boss” by Stephen M. Pollan. The title grabbed my attention and I needed to know more. After all, my ultimate dreams are to finish my novel series and become the next JK Rowling or Agatha Christie (since I actually recently found out she’s the most widely read author in the world. I’d previously thought it was JK Rowling.) Anyhow, this book among the countless others I’ve read in the past two years opened my mind to an entirely new way of looking at the workplace.

According to Pollan, “You need to stop letting your boss, or company, or anyone else for that matter, dictate the course of your work life, and take charge of your own present and future.” He then goes on to say that most people try to find a job that satisfies them emotionally, but his argument is that that’s where the problems start. That actually you must look for emotional satisfaction in your personal life and look at a job as a place to support your boss and focus on ways to make yourself indispensible to a company to increase your income potential.

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While this might sound completely against what most people think the main focus of a career should be, I once read that money is simply another form of energy. What we receive is what we give to others, so the more you receive the more you have given to others with money literally being a direct reflection of that contribution, nothing more nothing less. Society tries to paint the desire for monetary gain as a bad thing at times, but in reality, money is neither good or bad, it’s simply what one does with it or if it changes a person that defines what that person’s character is versus the idea of money being good or bad.