Launch of Job Satisfaction Survey!

Yesterday (Christmas) marked the first official day of administering the Job Satisfaction Survey at the privately owned restaurant we work at. In total I got 6 surveys back, and a few were taken home...so hopefully I'll get those back too.

It's always amazing to me how sometimes you have to practically bribe people to take things like this, even though it's for THEIR benefit, and we're doing all the work (administering, evaluating, presenting the results). It seems as if they don't care about their job or life in general enough to take a quick little survey and be HONEST about their answers. The survey is, of course, voluntary and anonymous so they don't have to take it by any means, I just don't understand why they wouldn't.

Another thing I notice is that people so often say "And WHY are you doing this? You know you can't make any difference." I actually even got compared to Sisyphus, the mythological Greek king that was punished by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again, forever. Basically this older-aged colleague of mine was saying it was pointless for me to try. How sad! (I have to say though, he did end up taking the survey and wishing me luck)

It's exactly that mentality that we're trying to evolve with Dreem Reality. I don't understand why people will remain in situations they are unhappy with (be them life, work, relationships, etc) without trying desperately to change them for the better. Why else are we living other than to live happy and fulfilled? We leave our human bodies TOO SOON to let our existence be so unhappy. Even if one believes we move on to "bigger and better things" when we die...why waste the time in this life doing things we don't like?

There are so many wonderful role models in human history who have proven that Change IS possible. Even if we don't devote our entire lives to a certain single cause like Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Gandhi, Harriet Tubman, Amma, and the like - we can still make significant changes in our OWN lives and the lives of the people we love. In fact, we're the only ones that actually can make that difference! You don't have to make it into the history books to be a hero - to yourself or someone else.

SO! That was the experience of the first round of surveys at work. I go in again today and hope to get some more filled out, as well as learn some more lessons.

Oh, before I close out...I want to send a very special THANK YOU out into the Universe to those few people that took the survey in enthusiasm - It is so beautiful to see that that life spark does exist in people. It's that enthusiasm that fuels my own.

~Dani

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