Category: contentment

How to Be Content in Turbulent Times

If you were asked to choose one word to describe the times we live in, what would it be? You might say stressful, intense, or exhausting—all true, for sure. As for me, I’m going with the adjective “turbulent.” If you’ve ever flown in an airplane that encountered turbulence, you’re well-acquainted with the meaning of the…


Why Employees Become Motivated to Stay or Leave

Businesses hope that by investing to make employees satisfied, this will motivate them to stay in their jobs and remain productive. It’s feared that dissatisfied employees will become motivated to leave prematurely. Yet not all employees leave when faced with the same dissatisfactions and they still may leave after being made satisfied. For example, Susanne…


The Virtues of a Contented Inner Work Life

Your inner work life, or thoughts about work, supply your motivation and the empowering virtues you demonstrate while working. Virtues are the desirable values and characteristics that you have the potential of demonstrating on the job. They help supply your motivation to do good work and contribute to a business’s favorable impressions of you. Here…