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Book Reveals How to Find Unexpected Purpose, Peace and Fulfillment at Work

Wednesday March 25, 2009

 

New York
In today's depressed economic climate and shrinking workforce, there are a myriad of questions that workers ask themselves every day. Some of these questions include: How can I prosper while keeping my integrity? When should I say what's on my mind, and when should I let it go? How can I build up confidence? Can I possibly balance all the demands on me? Can I find meaning and purpose at work?

In Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace and Fulfillment at Work, which is being published in April, Alan Lurie, managing director at Grubb & Ellis and a non-denominational ordained rabbi, explores these questions through a series of five-minute sermons given every Monday at Grubb & Ellis.

Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy, theology and science to discover answers, revealing how our best traditions all point in the same direction: to become better people, more connected to each other, and to the spiritual. Above all, Five Minutes on Mondays brings unity to the many lives we all lead, and helps us to function to our fullest, healthiest and highest potential, especially in troubled times.

"We live in times of uncertainty and enormous, rapid change," said Lurie. "This uncertainty may be frightening and intimidating, but uncertainty can also be a gift because it can cause us to rethink our established, fixed ways of seeing things, helping along the transformation from stagnation to movement, from limitation to expansion. This process leads to change and personal growth, which is always beneficial to the individual, no matter the economic climate."

Lurie writes about the chain of events that led to him coming to work for David Arena, president of Grubb & Ellis, and how his spirituality played a key role in these encounters. In the book, he shares some of the five-minute sermons he gave every Monday morning to help inspire, motivate, entertain and unite the real estate professionals at Grubb & Ellis.

Following are five tips from one of Lurie’s "sermons" on confidence, which could use reinforcing in times such as these:

• Focus on your strengths. Know where you are most effective, be comfortable with your inclinations and limitations, and allow yourself to be supported by others with complementary strengths.
• Monitor self-talk. Catch yourself when you use negative talk. If you think positively and expect favorable results and situations, in time your mental attitude will change how you view the events in your life, increasing your opportunities to succeed.
• Visualize. Visualization helps you to practice for and anticipate issues before they arise.
• Evaluate yourself objectively. Having self-confidence does not mean that individuals will be able to do everything, but self-confident people set expectations that are realistic based on their self-knowledge.
• Give yourself a break. Have compassion for yourself as you would for others. Stumbling is part of the journey, and make sure to pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

For more info: http://www.fiveminutesonmondays.com