HOW TO WORK IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND THRIVE

Here are 10 guiding principles to grow your career by.  Keeping your focus on why you work and how God intends to use you will help you to ride out the shifting tide of an ever-changing corporate climate.

1.     Don't expect to be appreciated. Your only expectation is fair compensation for the quality work you produce in a timely manner. Don't come to work to have personal relationships.  If you should make a real friend that’s great but your primary purpose is not friendship, its work.  Don't allow what you do to affect who you are.

2.     Do your job well, but remember your mission. God put you there to be a light.

3.     Seek opportunities to change the atmosphere without commenting on the problems. You have to talk to God several times throughout the day. You are on an assignment. Quietness and competence shall be your strength.

4.     Don't let your environment get inside of you. You should influence it, not let it influence you. Stop going to work to be fed. You didn't come to receive, you show up to give.

5.     Increase your capacity to work with different personalities. God will sometimes bless you through people you don't always enjoy being around.

6.     Remember, where you are does not define where you are going. This will deliver you from frustration. God has a plan for your life. Keep your eye on the prize. When Peter did this, he was able to walk on what other people sank in.

7.     Get the optimum results with minimal confusion. Be effective without making the environment worse.

8.     Don't be associated with one group or clique. Labels limit your usefulness. God wants you to work with everyone but be labeled by no one. Use all your gifts.

9.     Always keep your song near you. Keep a consecrated place in your soul. Hold on to your praise.

10. Understand that God anoints you for trouble. Put on the whole armor of God before going to work.