Comments on: The Rewards of Hard Labor http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-rewards-of-hard-labor/ Brief Motivational Interventions Mirroring the Time-Limited Reality of Human Existence Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:11:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Nicholas Powiull (Conscious Flex) http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-rewards-of-hard-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-7473 Nicholas Powiull (Conscious Flex) Tue, 20 May 2008 10:18:10 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/the-rewards-of-hard-labor/#comment-7473 Indeed a balance is needed. I feel the easiest way to keep the balance between labor and relationships is <b>gratitude</b>. Be grateful for all that you are, all that you have, your family, friends, and loved ones. Have gratitude for life itself and the ability to have experiences in first place! When you do that then life will open up to you grateful experiences, thus each and everyday <b>there will be more and more to be grateful for</b> in every moment of your life! Indeed a balance is needed. I feel the easiest way to keep the balance between labor and relationships is gratitude.

Be grateful for all that you are, all that you have, your family, friends, and loved ones. Have gratitude for life itself and the ability to have experiences in first place! When you do that then life will open up to you grateful experiences, thus each and everyday there will be more and more to be grateful for in every moment of your life!

]]> By: Chris Kirk http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-rewards-of-hard-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-7452 Chris Kirk Fri, 16 May 2008 13:50:29 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/the-rewards-of-hard-labor/#comment-7452 "When your mind is intently focused on what you are doing, and you spend so long at it that your rear end hurts from being in a chair so long, or your muscles ache from using them, yet you never realized the passage of time because you were so engaged – that is hard labor." This is where the insanity of the 40-hour work week is exposed. By putting people in a box and telling them they must spend a certain number of hours there, we destroy much of the creativity and hard work that produces meaningful results both for companies and individuals. We need to imagine ways to transform our workforce from time and location based to production or "good to the world" based. “When your mind is intently focused on what you are doing, and you spend so long at it that your rear end hurts from being in a chair so long, or your muscles ache from using them, yet you never realized the passage of time because you were so engaged – that is hard labor.”

This is where the insanity of the 40-hour work week is exposed. By putting people in a box and telling them they must spend a certain number of hours there, we destroy much of the creativity and hard work that produces meaningful results both for companies and individuals. We need to imagine ways to transform our workforce from time and location based to production or “good to the world” based.

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