Role of Spirituality in your Professional Success?

The question was asked first on LinkedIn where other answers can be found. My answer was:

“Important question.

I prefer being professionally happy as a person than becoming professionally successful in a role. Professional happiness comes when I make my way to a decision’s end knowing, especially on a spiritual level at stage 9 of these 12 stages:

1. Where I come from

2. Where I want to go

3. What I am waiting for

4. What my wise ones advise

5. What pros and cons I weigh

6. What the “Powers That Be” insist upon

7. What my own agenda reveals about me

8. What facts and reasons I contend with

9. What insights answer my prayers

10. How I tell my story

11. What losses I risk to gain what I still only hope for

12. Why the decision I discern is the right one for me.

Professional success seems to exist for me on a horizontal plane, while professional happiness takes me vertical. It seems to me you may be successful in a lot of roles by a lot of standards, especially money in our society.

Happiness seems to have a broader range than success. Happiness for me is not simply a choice or a judgment, but rather is a decision, the story of which we live out over and over.

As a result of this approach, not only going into a place of worship, but worshipping in such a holy place, not only reciting a prayer, but speaking to God through prayers, and not only remembering God, but communing with God in the hope that His remembering each of us will re-integrate us --- all of this helps us acheive happiness, whether we are successful by secular, professional standards or not.”


What do you think?

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Thanks.
John Darrouzet