In BASKETBALL, they have what they call "Most Valuable Player" or MVP. He's usually the highest scorer, the best team player, the player who most often makes the team win, thus bringing glory to the company he's playing for.
If your workplace could award a "Most Valuable Worker" yearly, would you win it? Would you like to? You or the place you work probably have an idea of the qualities one ought to have to be called a Most Valuable Worker (or MVW), but there is one very, very simple rule to observe for you to become one: Work twice as much as you're getting paid for.
Before you howl! "Unfair! Unfair!" and grumble that this is wrong or unjust for you and your family, and then, fear that this would only make you open to exploitation, see this rule as premium opportunity to prove your worth in the place you work.
Do you know why there are so many discontented employees around? Employees who endlessly complain about being underpaid, not earning enough for their needs, never being able to make both ends meet, etc? They are perennial complainers because they do not know the secret of investing in their work. They do not know that by doing only as much work as they are being paid for, they are condemning themselves to failure and a lifetime of fruitless hard labor.
Whereas if they worked twice as much, they would actually be paving the road to their success and prosperity. This marvelous rule applies to all who work for a living, whether designing condominiums or selling cell phones. If you pour twice as much of yourself into your job as your workplace expects of you, the pattern of your working life changes and you create an opening for miracles to take place.
Do not be affected if your coworkers mock you, calling you martir or sipsip out to win pogi points. If they're too selfish to give more than they're paid for, that's their problem, not yours. Just follow the rule cheerfully, knowing it will work.
Working twice as hard simply means being more enthusiastic about whatever you are doing - being more cheerful around everybody, caring more for the the place you work, being more patient about things you can't change while trusting that they will improve in due time - and taking the opportunity to develop and exercise new skills, never doubting the good it can do for you and for everyone else.
Do you know why the rule "Work twice as much as you're getting paid for" is effective? Because it is giving, and giving is investing your faith in the Endless Source of all good. You cannot outdo this Endless Source in generosity - if you give it a handful of papaya seeds, it gives you back a hectare of papaya trees. Knowing and observing that rule in the workplace makes you an extremely valuable worker.
The thing is, just keep on doing it, giving cheerfully. It will not work if you give and then wait for rewards - just give because it is good to give, and then forget about it. And when you are commended for the good work, pass on the credit to the Endless Source from whom your power to work and to give comes in the first place.
There are two kinds of people who are bound for failure and misery in the workplace: those who do not do what they are told to do, and those who won't do more than what they're told to do. Let's hope you are not one of them.
Ask any happy achiever how he found the road to fulfillment and he will say, "Work twice as much as you're getting paid for." This rule is not a silly sacrifice - it is your just and rightful way of claiming the bounty that life has in store for you. Why wait till next week to become a MOST VALUABLE WORKER? Begin RIGHT NOW!
