Managing Monday Mourning

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Managing Monday Mourning

• How to make your workplace better

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The most important qualities in a job

• 47 Feeling of Accomplishment
• 22 High Income
• 17 Chance for Advancement
• 8 Job Security
• 4 Other
• 2 Short Working Hours

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See our work itself as a blessing rather than a
curse

• God is a worker!
• The heavens are telling of the glory of God And
  their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
  (Psalm 191)
• It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel
  forever for in six days the Lord made heaven and
  earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from
  labor, and was refreshed. (Exodus 3117)

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• God has given man work to do!
• And God blessed them and God said to them, Be
  fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and
  subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and
  over the birds of the sky, and over every living
  thing that moves on the earth. (Genesis 128)
• Then the Lord God took the man and put him into
  the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
  (Genesis 215)

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Approach your job with an attitude of excellence

• Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for
  the Lord rather than for men knowing that from
  the Lord you will receive the reward of the
  inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you
  serve. (Colossians 323-24)
• All professions are spiritual to the Christian,
  not because of the nature of the work but because
  of the presence of God.
• Every job is a self-portrait of the person who
  did it.

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• When we work like this, God will give us joy in
  our work.
• Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting
  to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all ones
  labor in which he toils under the sun during the
  few years of his life which God has given him
  for this is his reward. Furthermore, as for every
  man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He
  has also empowered him to eat from them and to
  receive his reward and rejoice in his labor this
  is the gift of God. For he will not often
  consider the years of his life, because God keeps
  him occupied with the gladness of his heart.
  (Ecclesiastes 518-20)

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Approach fellow-workers with an attitude of love
and concern

• Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own
  masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not
  argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all
  good faith that they may adorn the doctrine of
  God our Savior in every respect. (Titus 29-10)
• The second is like it, You shall love your
  neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 2239)

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See work as a part and not the whole of your life

• The job that keeps us from doing Gods will asks
  too much of us and does not deserve our time and
  effort.
• But seek first His kingdom and His
  righteousness and all these things shall be
  added to you. (Matthew 633)

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• Men often for the sake of getting a living
  forget to live.
• It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire
  late, to eat the bread of painful labors for He
  gives to His beloved even in his sleep. (Psalm
  1272)

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• Never allow your sense of self to become
  associated with your sense of job. What you make
  does not determine who you are!
• And He said to them, Beware, and be on your
  guard against every form of greed for not even
  when one has an abundance does his life consist
  of his possessions. (Luke 1215)

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There may be things about our job we cannot
change but there are things about us that we can
change, and these can make all the difference in
making this the best year of your life!