It's Always Worth Doing Well! Work Is for Your Evolution (CT006)
⁘ Created: 2026-01-25 ⁘ Updated: 2026-02-09
If it's worth doing... It's worth doing well. Work diligently with full attention. You work not only for outcomes. You work to transform yourself. Each field of works — sites for your inner cultivation. Don't separate inner and outer work.
If you cut corners and aim for a barely passing mark. Just to get the box ticked. You are sabotaging yourself. No peace and satisfaction from a work well done. Substandard results as well. Life wasted in meaningless movements. Do or don't!
Whatever that you're doing. Are you doing it properly? Investing your heart and mind to it to the best of your ability? The underlying assumption here being that there is a point and a direction to what you're doing. If not, then why would you bother?
We're talking about the ethics of work. Some pride, some integrity, in both your process and your accomplishments. If you're one of those people who take it easy, like to cut corners, landing at barely good enough, then you are sabotaging yourself. You're depriving yourself from the peace and satisfaction of a job well done.
🐕🦺 "Whatcha doing old man? We're in the middle of an operation here. That's right back to slashing the grass you go."
There's the maxim, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well." The classic source from 1746 by an earl to his son adds, "and nothing can be done well without attention". Actually get into the zone of what you're doing. Focus, pay attention. Otherwise, how will it ever be done well?
If your attention is diluted — then reprioritize. If your skills are lacking, then upskill, train yourself. Don't flicker in the forge. Precise application of meticulous attention. Do that not for the sake of particular outcomes. Do it for your own sake, for your own transformation. The devil in the details will have nothing over you.
It's truly exhausting, just watching people work without their hearts and minds in the game. Knowing that the outcomes will be substandard, and themselves the workers will get nowhere in their lives. Whatever that your line of work, a craftsman, intellectual, counselor or a clerk in the office, be present and be real in your works. In engagement, with attention, there is evolution. Nowhere else.
Even the meditator, still and silent, engages in significant inner works. If you are actually doing your inner work, that is. If you are just peacefully drifting, that's something else. So, you know, "Ora Et Labora", etc. Don't just muck around. Do it properly. It benefits you. It benefits everyone. There's clarity in what you do. That's precious.
Lounging in the shed, crafting what the hell ever it is that we craft for transformation of consciousness. You know, you need to pick up all sorts of skills in life. Some of them you need today, some of them you could have used yesterday, some of them you will need tomorrow. All skills contribute to all skills in every concern domain. If you don't engage with the works of life, with the fullest of your heart, you will never ever make a meaningful contribution to the world. — From "Random Banter 006"
We work in a manner where every aspect of the works is connected with our awareness and evolution. Your tools out there are the same as your tools in here. Every facet of your outer works is an opportunity for your inner works. Your daily life, as it happens. Use that as your field of transformation. — From "Casual Watcher 006"