All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Khalil Gibran

In honor of Labor Day I went searching for quotes on work. Found a whole bunch of good ones but wanted to share the two above.

It reminded me of my two favorite things about work.

First, that any work that serves a fellow human being is work worth doing. There is dignity and honor in service. And most jobs are fundamentally about serving others, otherwise they wouldn’t exist.

The difference between a good job and a bad job? The person doing the job’s attitude.

Second, “work is love made visible”.

Whether we are showing love for our family, our God, our co-workers or our customers, we can show love for others by doing our best at work.

Again, this is a matter of choice.

We can choose to work as if working for those we love or we can choose to drag ourselves into “that place” again.

For a place we spend so much time at, our decision on how to view work is an important part of happiness.

Make it a great (work)day.

Jake