Corporate heaven...is there such a thing?

Most working people have split personalities. How can we tell? They behave so differently in their personal life from their working life. Some can be a loving father at home but a monster at work. Some are such educationists to their kids but yet never want to learn anything new at work.

Many have found a good reason to justify the way they behave. "Have to earn a living, right?" In other words, who cares about the methods and behaviour as long as I can get what I think is noble?

Equipped with this reason, many justify why it's ok to lie at work, 'tah pau' toilet rolls for home use, gain trust from bosses by supplying office rumours.

We must understand that in the works of karma or in the eyes of god: lying is lying while cheating is plain cheating.

If lying 100 times 'earns' you a big slap, it doesn't matter whether it comes from work or from private life because lying is still lying. Hell doesn't differentiate unwholesome actions from work or home.

When we say we want to lead a quality life, it doesn't mean only our private life. It should encompass work life too. We spend at least half of our waking hours at work. Our colleagues see us more than our family. Any compromise in work life simply means 'a life half lived'.

What shall we do? It's quite simple actually. Extend to your office as a part of your private life (what?? Sleeping during work hours?), and also extend your work life to the home (you mean continue to work at home? No way!!)

Hold your horses please! It doesn't mean we do it physically and literally. It means we need to equip our minds and our environment with the common fundamentals that we can apply at work as well as at home.

We have neighbours at home. Do we have one at work? Do we know anyone in the next office? We review our business quarterly. Do we review our personal progress?

In short, identify the positive values that we practice at work and extend it to our home. The same goes to the positive family values we have at home. If punctuality is a big thing at home, extend this value to work.

Once we are able to merge work and home, our split personalities will gradually disappear. 'We become ourselves' again.
So go ahead, make yourself at home...in the office!