1. Realize that you are employed by an organization to obtain results for that organization. You are not employed to like what you do, or to be acknowledged. Consider those just ‘bonuses’. Focus on the work itself and do your best to obtain the results you need to. The fact that you work to the best of your abilities has intrinsic value in itself. Choose to be peacefully content and train you mind-heart to produce joy when you do things with a sincere intention to do well. Remember that “a rose is beautiful whether someone looks at it or not”.

2. Remember that you are not your function, your work, your ‘success’/'failure’. Step aside from your identification with what you do and how you feel in the moment. You are many mind-events moments, and the life energy inside you, which makes these moments possible, is different than the life circumstances you experience. What kind of person do you prefer to be? Right action builds more being and being with awareness leads to right action. Is there a type of action that is ‘always’ right? Maybe the will to do, with joy and contentment, whatever needs to be done to obtain the expected results, without expectations about the nature of the results. The data obtained through an experiment can be called a success or a failure. Or they can be called nothing and be seen as mere data.

John C. Maxwell’s perspective – “The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”