A Productive Employee (Part 2)

A Productive Employee (Part 2)
In the first part of this article, I said one way to be productive as an employee is to erase or block every negative comment(s) or thought(s) about ones boss or employee from your mind. It is a very good way of maintaining ones focus that is if the individual does have a focus.

In this second article, I intend to share another secret to productivity which is important for every employee. It is revealed in the same passage as the first article. Every employee who wants to be productive must not see or think failure but must see and think of increase and multiplication. In the passage, Matthew 25:25, the servant said ‘and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.’ (KJV). This servant, because he has a mindset that his boss was a wicked man, only thought of preserving what was given to him. He only made sure he still had what was committed to his care. That sounds like a lot of workers who only will do what they are told and do no more not less. No form of innovation or creativity is shown or demonstrated. Proverbs 22:13 says ‘the slothful man saith, there is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets’. It is a form of intellectual slothfulness or laziness to only want to remain in the familiar territory or to no want to do a little extra.

The master of the servant said in Matthew 25:27 ‘thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury’. That is to say you should have thought of a way at least to increase what I gave to you if not multiply just increase it a little bit. The point is as an employee you do not just think of failure (if I do this or that I might fail or might loss) but think of increase. Find a way to add a little more value to what you are doing or to what was committed to your care and after some time the little value added here and a little value added there will become more and before you know it you will have multiplied what you were given.
So think increase and multiplication, not failure.