Where to Now?

For those of you who are serious about putting spirituality into practice, you might adopt all 10 of the suggestions below. Take two weeks to try each until it works or it doesn't. But be sure to try them all or you'll be disappointed with the expanded quality of life you might expect.

Integrating Ethical Principles and Values Into Your Work-Life Activities – A Personal Perspective*

Check the suggestions below that are practical, realistic, and personally appropriate for you to implement:

1. Start off with taking care of yourself — alignment of body, mind, and spirit for personal stability, e.g. personal growth, exercise, meditation, etc.

2. Be less judgmental of others and more compassionate of the struggles we all experience.

3. Design your work/service to be personally meaningful — sourced from your inner values.

4. Consciously decide (re-decide) what’s most important to you (your innermost values), beyond the temporary or superficial — and realign your activities in congruence with these.

5. View conflict as a personal growth opportunity to learn about yourself and others; the result is wisdom, e.g., an angry person is a person in pain.

6. Recognize your attitude toward life is of your own design — and you are 100% responsible for the results you create!

7. Be kind to unkind people — you will transform their lives.

8. Consciously expand your sphere of associations to include others who are different, think different, and do things in a different way. Your reality will be reshaped and transformed and, most of all, you will experience greater harmony and peace of mind.

9. Adopt a personally appropriate stress reduction regimen, e.g. meditation, five-minute break, Zen practices, exercise, visualization, etc.

10. Create a personal development program that enhances your career development plan, e.g. seminars on relationship, communication, leadership, teamwork, diversity, and creativity.


*Adapted from “The Living Organization – Spirituality in the Workplace.”