I write a lot about my job on here because, well, it’s where I spend most of my waking hours. I also write about it because my workplace is literally a microcosm of every walk of life. I have supervised doctors, accountants, well-known college athletes, plumbers, children of well-to-do community members, teachers, factory workers, iron workers, truck drivers, cable installers, phone solicitors, business owners, drug dealers, attempted murderers, drunk drivers, high school and college students and everyone in between.
Every day I am also treated with a front row seat to people in the squaller of life’s depths, and yet I (and a few others) am doing exactly what I believe I was put on earth to do. My job is to "motivate" those who aren’t in the norms of society’s rules by having them take steps (by court order) to amend wrongdoing and again become productive members of society. This "motivation" aspect of the job is what differentiates a successful outcome with those who don’t change a blasted thing. If you can find someone’s motivation, you have a much better chance of success. (They call it the "hook" when we go to our trainings.)
I have been thinking a lot about my own motivations in doing things. Do I do things because it’s in my best interest? Do I do them because they are in the best interest of my kids? Do I do them because in the short-term it is easier and I will let the eventual outcome play itself out? Do I even care what the long-term consequences are? Have I always been this way or have I had someone to mask this for the last 10 years. Am I now in a position where I should not trust my heart nor head to make decisions?
If you can’t trust your heart and head - what’s left?
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Blog title is taken from the song Shine by the Newsboys.
