Do You Enjoy What You Do For A Living?
Martha Edwards loves her job. Martha is a funologist. That’s her title.
Martha was our concierge at the Sedona Real Inn and Suites in Sedona, Arizona during our recent vacation. She helped us pick a restaurant and gave us some quick travel tips, in between helping dozens of other people in person and on the phone, all within thirty minutes before her quitting time for the day. It was obvious it had been a busy day, she was surely tired, but you couldn’t tell it from her disposition. Everyone she helped received the same excellent service.
I am confident Martha is a competent, skilled, and efficient concierge, with a great natural bubbly personality. She is a true professional in the hospitality industry, but I do not believe that is what makes her so good at what she does. I really think her greatest asset is that she obviously loves what she does for a living. She enjoys her work.
Do you?
I love the staff at Grace Community Church. The truth is we are not always the most efficient group of people. Sometimes we miss deadlines, forget schedules, miss opportunities, and probably even waste valuable time just goofing around, and honestly, that bothers me if I allow it to, because I’m wired for efficiency. (Even though I’m sometimes the chief goof-ball.) Unfortunately, there are times that I have to be the bad guy and call us to task; partly because of my wiring and partly because of my position in the organization, but the plain truth is that in the four years of our existence as a church, we have been very successful working together.
Watching Martha enjoy her work so much helped me understand one reason our staff is successful. WE ENJOY WHAT WE DO…and we have fun doing it! We actually like the people we work with (most days). I cannot help, but think that plays a large part in our success as an organization. Obviously I cannot and would not dismiss the God-thing that has taken place among us, but I think one of those God-things He has done was bringing the people together He has as a staff.
Again, do you enjoy what you do? Do you like the people with whom you work? If not, should a change be in your future?
(Okay, I know that’s a tough and perhaps tender question for some of you, but why not start finding and making hard decisions to improve the situation?)
