How dedicated would you say you are to your job? How dedicated would you say you are to your customers, your co-workers or your supervisors? When it comes to job satisfaction did you know that how you feel about the people you interact with has more to do with how you will feel about your job than the tasks you have to perform?
But getting along with people can bring problems. As we all know, we are not meant to please everyone all the time – and everyone is not meant to please us all the time (although we often live like this is how life is supposed to be). With that, we experience cynicism from time to time. Someone will do or say something that makes us contort our face into the same shape it would make if we smelled something really foul and offensive and a cartoon bubble might appear over our head that reads “WTF?” and emotionally we respond with some form of fear (anger, hurt, shame, confusion, etc.).
Hopefully our norm is to forgive and move forward. But sometimes it builds up and we respond to that person or similar situation with a degree of reserve expecting a similar pain we experienced in the past. Consistency in that thinking eventually leads us to develop a negative attitude as our norm or to just withdraw altogether. This is how cynicism evolves.
So, are you feeling crabby at work? Don’t focus on things changing in your job to restore your mood – focus on this…