The Mighty Hammer: Wisdom Seeker in the Workplace

By L.A. Jones

In this book, I present to you wisdom from the workplace, which Ive carefully gleaned from my own real experiences, that you can implement to affect positive change in your own life.

Your life is a journey of purpose. You need wisdom to guide you in the way. Without wisdom, you will find yourself wandering around in this world . . . moving about without a definite destination or purpose.

In this book, you will find valuable practical insights on such subjects:

Work ethic: its importance in your life
Job safety: its principles and practices
Business relationships: working with others
Personal finances: money management tips
Painful ordeals (on the job): growth opportunities
Promotion secrets: advancement actions
Life purpose: fulfilling your divine assignment

You can only be wise for yourself.

Have the confidence and courage to take the wisdom tools of this book, written with you in mind, to build a prosperous and successful life and to ultimately realize your God-given destinywhat God predestined you to do with your life before you came into this world.

God has a magnificent destiny in mind for you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503532427

L.A. Jones

I am budding writer who appreciates feedback both positive and negative just basically people reading my work. I am a twenty-five year old college student with Aspergers Syndrome. I have a wonderful mother, and father, and a sister who is also in college. My greatest passion is my writing, and I hope it will give as much joy to my readers as it does for me. Tales of Aradia the Last Witch is my first book series. if you wish to contact me more directly go on Tales of Aradia's Facebook page and leave me a note.

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Contents

A Tribute to the Lord: My Trust and My Treasure

Preface: Protecting the Dreamer Within

Introduction: In The Hellhole

PART ONE VALUABLE WORKERS: AN ANT COLONY

1 Working with Six Sorts of Ants

2 Working towards Retirement: Life Seasons

PART TWO VAST WEALTH: WORKERS AND THE COMPANY

3 Common Wealth: The People Principle

4 Common Cents: Financial Wisdom For the Wage Earner

PART THREE VIRTUOUS WORKPLACE: A FAMILY AFFAIR

5 Family Tree: Producing Good Fruit

6 Family Crises: Assessing Situations

PART FOUR VIOLENT BLOWS: ON THE ANVIL OF ADVERSITY

7 The Mighty Furnace: Life Lessons

8 The Mighty Hammer: Forged by Fire

PART FIVE VICTORIOUS LIVING: BEYOND THE WORKPLACE

9 Living A Successful Life: Dream Seeds

10 Living A Love Life: 7 Laws of Love

PART SIX VIGOROUS REVELATION: GOD’S TIME CLOCK

11 Punched In: On the Clock

12 Punched Out: Off the Clock

Final Words of the Mighty Exhorter: Wisdom Honey

A Tribute to the Lord: My Trust and My Treasure

Lord, You are my Trust.

Your Wonderful name I continually bless.

Your dealings with me from day to day are just.

Your Power and Your Compassion I confess.

You deliver me out of my every distress.

You are the God of my salvation.

Your everlasting Faithfulness

Is Gloriously seen in every generation,

Who trust in You in their tribulation.

Lord, You are my Treasure.

The Great God of Heaven I highly value.

I receive Your Mercy without measure.

I receive Your Loving-Kindness, too.

You’re forever faithful and true.

With You can nothing in this world compare.

Your tender mercies are every morning new.

I see the Beautiful Person that is preciously rare,

For, O Lord, I know for me You truly care.

L. A. Jones

Preface: Protecting the Dreamer Within

Having been working for more than a quarter of a

century, I think I qualify to have something to say regarding workers and the workplace.

It behooves me to think companies—and bosses—need a fresh sense of the marvelous worth of the individual, and that the common worker has virtually lost his or her wonderful sense of purpose.

Purpose is the reason for creation.

Creation is the age-old work of God.

God made this earth to be inhabited, especially by people.

People are dreamers.

As dreamers, people fall into two distinct classes:

• Desirous dreamers

• Hopeful dreamers

Dreamers dream.

If you listen close enough, you’ll eventually hear people in the workplace talking about their dreams.

I’d heard many a conversation among coworkers regarding what they wanted to be or wanted to do in life.

The vast majority of these wants of the soul were desires. These were simply wishes or longings which had no expectation of fulfillment they were sharing with one another.

This, of course, left an astounding minority of hopes I heard among them. These were hearts’ desires with expectation of fulfillment. They discussed detailed schemes of how they planned to bring it all to pass in their life.

However, somewhere between all the working and wishing, I started wondering why there was such an alarming lack of faith—for if there is no faith, then there will be no works or action, to bring it to pass.

Then it occurred to me that maybe—just maybe—the workplace was having a powerfully negative bearing on their hearts and life ambition. Could the very spirit of the workplace be killing these people’s hopes and dreams?

It was at that particular time I realized the Dreamer within must be protected.

Because you may have to work doesn’t mean you cannot dream.

I didn’t say fantasize.

I said dream.

You can still have a vision for your life and pursue that life vision with courage and joy.

DREAM ARMOR

You will need what I call dream armor, with which to protect the Dream of your heart. It consists of nine different states of being, which ultimately, collectively help to keep your Dream safe…even in the most distressing situations you might encounter on the job. Let’s identify them:

1. Being in love with your Dream: Feel passion for it!

2. Being joyful of your Dream: Feel good about it!

3. Being at peace with your Dream: Know it’s God-given!

4. Being patient towards your Dream: Don’t give up on it!

5. Being kind to your Dream: Don’t mistreat it!

6. Being good for your Dream: Let it benefit from you!

7. Being faithful to your Dream: Don’t cheat on it with another dream that God didn’t give you!

8. Being gentle with your Dream: Don’t carelessly handle it!

9. Being self-controlled for the sake of your Dream: Don’t kill it out of your harshness or anger!

These nine states of being collectively form the dream armor you need to protect your Dream…where the workplace may be perilous to it.

You must protect the seed so that it will survive to produce the tree you desire.

Likewise, you must protect the Dream so that it will survive to produce the sweetness of soul you desire to experience and enjoy.

While the primary purpose of this book is to share with you—the reader—Precious Pearls of Wisdom I’ve gleaned over the years in the workplace, to hopefully benefit you in some positive way, I, the Author, feel it a great injustice to this book if the awesome significance of people (hired to get the job done) weren’t appreciatively noted.

Profit requires production.

Production requires people.

People are an essential part to a company’s prosperity and proud growth—which things make economic expansion possible, give it the ability and boldness to venture into new territory, and ultimately to establish itself as a commercial superpower in the very industry wherein it’s found.

It is my confident hope that as you read this book with keen interest and a humble heart that’s receptive of pleasant wisdom and good understanding, that you’ll be joyously empowered to protect the Dreamer in you, and armed with new knowledge which can make you either a better worker, or give you a better understanding of the workers who work for you.

—L. A. Jones

Introduction: In The Hellhole

August 8, 1988—

It was a sultry summer day in August as I entered the strange workplace for the very first day on my first job. The man who was to be my supervisor met me in the clock room, to show me how to punch in and out. Leaving from there, we started walking together down through the plant, until we arrived at the department where I’d be working.

As we made our way through the plant, people in other departments stopped what they were doing to get a good look at Willie Jones’ son; for my father worked there at the time, in a different department. As I walked, I kept my head lowered just enough to see the many faces that were staring at me. They were strange faces, except for a few I recognized, who hollered out at me, Hey, Jones! Smilingly, I greeted them back. I could see people talking to each other about me, as people generally do when a newcomer on the job joins the ranks.

As everyone seemingly watched us as we walked, my supervisor, seeing all eyes were on us, started smiling. We finally reached our department and my fellow workers feasted their eyes on me, as if I were fresh meat to them. But there was no crying out, Fresh meat! Yet I could hear them talking to one another about me. Well, he is pretty big. Yeap. That’s Jones’ boy, alright. Do you think he’ll be able to handle the work? I don’t know, but time will tell. As I heard these words, I began to wonder if I’d be able to handle the very hard work the department was so well known for.

At first, uncertainty seemed to grip my heart. But knowing who I was and whose I was immediately gave me a sense of proud strength. I held my head up and stuck my chest out. I could not be intimidated…by anyone. However, as humbly as I could, I listened and learned. Seeing I had a good work ethic right off the bat, my fellow workers liked me—and I liked them.

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

But that didn’t change the fact that the department where I worked was nicknamed the hellhole and that for a very good reason. Almost every workday, men were viciously arguing and fighting—literally. Every day, someone was cussing someone else out. Every day, strong warnings were given, vicious threats were made. Workers were pulling out their pocket knives, picking up tools to use as weapons, going to their cars to get their guns. I mean it was crazy! The worst times were during the summer, when the heat was almost unbearable in our department. The fans that were wall-mounted offered very little comfort. As men, we had to man up and stick it out. It didn’t take much at all to set people off. A cuss word, a poorly timed joke, a constant nagging, and you were asking for it!

Among all the workers of my department, I was the youngest, at twenty-two years of age. I’d never been in such a position or place of employment in my life. It seemed every day was survival of the fittest. These men were very proud and didn’t back down from anyone or take any thing off anyone. Our notorious department was practically a war zone from workday to workday.

Then, one day, from a simple observation, I noted these men were as sheep without a shepherd. It was as if they were lost in themselves and desperately needed someone to bring positive encouragement, trustworthy guidance, and a wonderful sense of direction.

Being a Christian at that time, during my personal prayer time at home, I asked the Lord to protect me from the violence of my workplace and to give me a small portion of The Samson Anointing, to ensure I’d be able to do that back-breaking work. In time to come, I found myself breaking metal objects on the work floor with my bare hands! I was lifting weight which I shouldn’t have been able to. My fellow workers just looked at me in amazement. They’d never seen any thing like it in the workplace. It wasn’t too long after that I got their respect. They weren’t afraid of me and I wasn’t afraid of them. But they learned to respect me and I learned to respect them. If was as if we were in a deadlock.

A YOUNG LION: BIRTH OF HAMMER

Because I chose to humble myself, I respected them and respect reciprocated to me. I left room for relationship and one by one, they approached me. Genuine friendships developed. Finally, they all embraced me as their brother, and I embraced them as my brothers, as well. Through process of time, the bond became stronger.

Of the tools we used, there were two primary ones. One was called the tamper, which was a very heavy piece of metal used to tamper or knock down boards that were sticking up during the gluing process. Boards, or lams as they were called, were actually glued together to make beams. As they were pressed together, some would, being uneven, need to be tampered down to have a smooth surface. Though a very heavy metal object, from time to time, I broke a tamper in the process of using it. It would break in my hands as I hit those boards that were sticking up, as I walked down the beam being glued. My coworkers would look at me in astonishment and unbelief.

Getting upon the beam with the tamper, workers would immediately cry out, It’s Hammer time! I’d smile, knowing I had to perform up to their expectation of what they burningly wanted to see. As I walked down the beam being glued, using the tamper, my fellow workers would sing out loud,

Go L. A.! Go L. A.! Go L. A.! Go L. A!

Their loud singing in unity at me ignited a fire of great determination within me, to finish all the way down the beam. The raw power of rage would fill me, as I began seeing that beam as my enemy. Workers in other departments that could see our department would stop working to see the Hammer in action! I entertained them. They envied me. Often, when I’d make it all the way to the end, the tamper would literally break in my hands, from pounding the wood with incredible strength, seemingly shaking the whole department. They just loved to see me use that tamper!

Second, we used a giant pneumatic tool which was called an air gun. It was hand-held, though. It was used in the gluing process of pressing the boards together, which were all coated with specially formulated glue. It took strong arms to hold an air gun of that size and weight. But it just so happened I had very strong arms, and holding the air gun for me was like taking candy from a baby.

Picking up an air gun to run, the workers would cry out, It’s Hammer time! As I went down the beam, using the air gun, pressing those boards together, workers would sing out loud,

Go L. A.! Go L. A.! Go L. A.! Go L. A.!

As usual, their united loud singing drove me. With incredible strength and fantastic endurance, I’d go all the way down the beam, running that air gun in my hands, like they’d never seen before in the workplace.

I knew I was putting on a show…and I loved doing it! I was a young lion, healthy and strong, with fabulous stamina. I was the crown jewel of my workplace.

Both these primary tools of the department were nicknamed or called hammer by the workers who used them from day to day. I mastered them both and so my fellow workers began calling me Hammer. That’s exactly how I got that nickname in my workplace—the hellhole. Some even went so far as to start calling me Hulk Hammer!

As with any job, in general, workers came and went. However, I put down roots and remained there for many years. I was young at the time, had my own pride battles to fight, and admittedly, had a lot of growing up to do. But by the grace of God, I survived the hellhole and became one of its famed champions. From then on, when I came to work, I’d hear someone yell, Hammer’s in the house!

They came to expect me to perform as only I could.

They expected to see impressive feats of strength.

They expected to witness fabulous endurance.

They expected me to make them laugh with my wonderful sense of humor.

They expected me to listen to their life problems and then offer them some word of comfort and hope.

I knew they had these great expectations of me and soon I became concerned about satisfying their expectations. I just didn’t want to disappoint them.

I actually cared for them.

I wanted to help them any way I possibly could.

Some of them that had grown close to me called me an angel.

My supervisor told me that I was the most moral man he’d ever met.

I felt tremendous pressure was being applied to me, for that I’d have to walk a straight line before them and live up to these very things they were saying of me. I didn’t ask for any of it; nevertheless, I received it, and I was greatly pressured to deliver.

WISDOM QUEST: A HEART JOURNEY

So, I set my heart to know wisdom, and to get understanding in all I experienced and observed in my workplace.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding, (Proverbs 4:7).

Unaware, I’d perform the role of Christian counselor to those precious men in the workplace. I would love them, pray for them, counsel them, encourage them, and work right alongside them—getting dirty, sweaty, and musty right with them. After all, they were my brothers, and I wasn’t ashamed of them.

• I learned to look beyond people’s faults, to see their needs.

• I believed in focusing on problems in hope of finding solutions.

• I dedicated myself to not criticizing people for their mistakes but creating an immediate atmosphere that was charged with positive energy and rich optimism.

I saw that real men were hurting quietly.

I determined that my mouth wouldn’t be used as a piercing sword against them, but as a healing balm for them.

I perceived these precious men didn’t know how to vent in a positive way; they only knew how to be violent whenever someone or something got on their nerves.

Times were tough. Pay was low. Money was scarce. Good fortune seemed to pass us all by…all the time. Golden opportunities seemingly were forbidden us.

All we had were each other and we didn’t know how to draw from each other’s strength in our times of obvious weakness.

In time, I’d quit that job and relocate to a new workplace…embarking upon a journey of a different work experience…with a fresh supply of new faces, new attitudes, new problems, new friends, new enemies.

Though I left that workplace where my brothers remained, I yet loved them, for that they were in my heart. They remained there and my Wisdom remained with me.

I’m reminded of the words penned by the Apostle Paul, over 2000 years ago:

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

—2 THESSALONIANS 3:10

Though expressed as a general principle of life—working to eat or to partake of the basic necessities of life—it must be perfectly understood that working does not exclusively mean working for companies or other people.

You can work for yourself.

Also, a second precious pearl of understanding can be gleaned from this same general life principle: You must work for what you want in life. For example, you can have a dream. But that dream will always remain just a dream as long as you don’t DO ANYTHING to bring it to pass in your life. You must take action to see it materialize, and therefore become a reality. You must bring it from the dream dimension into the reality dimension—and you do that through WORK!

The workplaces of the world are flooded with people who’re full of potential; but only a fraction of them—I dare say—succeed in discovering and doing what they were divinely purposed to do.

Do to this solemnly sad failure to discover their destiny, the workplaces are, in a figurative sense, graveyards of gifts given by God, of which many (if not most) won’t ever be discovered, developed, and demonstrated for the world to see.

Notwithstanding, Employers have a moral obligation to their employees—precious people in the eyes of Almighty God their Blessed Creator—to treat them right, just, and fair; and, ultimately, they’re to take pleasure in the prosperity of their workers. May every Employer, in the fear of God, respect and carry out this moral obligation without fail and that for the sake of the dignity of labor.

L. A. Jones

PART ONE

VALUABLE WORKERS: AN ANT COLONY

1

Working with Six Sorts of Ants

Work is necessary not only to survive but also to see your hopes and dreams come true.

—L. A. JONES

The company can’t use you if you don’t work out! Being hired doesn’t mean or guarantee you’ll be kept!

Workers’ value to the company is basically their worth in usefulness to that company. The more experience and learning (or know-how) workers get under their belts, the greater their value and therefore the greater their importance to that company. It would seem logical, then, to think every worker would have the individual intent of continual growth in experience and know-how on the job, for the sake of increasing their value to the company they work for.

As the furnace, to try [test, prove] gold by fire, to determine what it basically consists of…along with the formation of impurities on the surface of its molten state…this practical idea should be acceptable in principle to the company: to prove hired workers by putting them in the furnace of challenging work, to see what they’re really made of; and to expose any undesirable element, such as poor work ethics, bad attitude, physical handicaps, to name a few. The company is looking for pure gold or valuable workers, not fool’s gold or people they mistaken to be valuable workers. The objective here isn’t to disqualify people on purpose, but to determine who qualifies as a keeper.

Valuable workers are essential ingredients to the recipe for a company’s overall success. Leave them out or try to make it without them and that company’s recipe for success will turn out to be a business disaster! The company mustn’t just have workers—it must have workers who genuinely care. Therefore, it’s in the company’s best interest to do everything within its power to keep its valuable workers. The company must see their value, perceive what they really have in particular persons, and genuinely appreciate it. In essence, a company is poor without valuable workers; for it’s what they individually bring to the table that work together to enrich the company and to ultimately contribute to its business success.

Ants of a colony are a remarkable comparison to people that work in the workplace. Interestingly, there are two noteworthy parallels between them:

1. Ants work to gather food and prepare or store up their food in the summer season, for the upcoming winter season, when food will be scarce. Similarly, people in the workplace work to make an honest living; and, they work towards retirement, laying up for their financial future. This is dignity of labor.

2. All ants in the colony are workers. This simply means each one has a job to do. However, they work together toward a common goal: survival of the colony. Likewise, all people in the workplace have a job to do. Ultimately, they work together toward a common goal: success of the company they work for. They have different jobs but the overall objective is the same. This is division of labor.

Every ant in the colony is a valuable worker. Each is valuable to the colony by virtue of its individual work for the utmost benefit of the colony.

Everyone who works in the workplace is a valuable worker.

What makes everyone valuable to the company they work for is their service to the company.

Their service to the company is valuable service.

Valuable service is whatever job someone’s hired to perform that aids in the ultimate accomplishment of the company’s business success.

10 Practical Expectations of Valuable Workers

1. Valuable workers are expected to be accomplished workers. They are to succeed at becoming skilled at the very jobs they were hired to do, that they perform daily in the workplace.

2. Valuable workers are expected to be diligent in their work. They are to be careful and persevering in carrying out their tasks or duties. They shouldn’t require supervision. No one should have to stand over them, to make sure they’re doing their work.

3. Valuable workers [their value to the company] are expected to appreciate over time. It is purposefully intended for them to grow in experience, knowledge (know-how), and skillfulness on the job.

4. Valuable workers are expected to be good investments to the company. They should continually show the company that it made the right decision to hire them and invest in them.

5. Valuable workers are expected to shine in the workplace and make their company look good. It’s not only about how they work in the workplace, but also how they walk in the workplace. Their conduct has a significant bearing on the company’s very image, for that it can make the company either look good or bad.

6. Valuable workers are expected to uphold the laws of safety, as they’re made by the company. Being of utmost importance, Safety is ideally the number-one goal of the company, and its valuable workers should lend their faithful contribution to attaining that noble goal.

7. Valuable workers are expected to respect the rules of harmony in the workplace. A pleasant workplace is a peaceful workplace. The company is adamantly intolerant of peace-breakers or troublemakers.

8. Valuable workers are expected to devote themselves to the true spirit of teamwork. Teamwork is the Master Key to goal accomplishment. Therefore, valuable workers are to be team players. They must first be able to work together before they can work together toward a common goal.

9. Valuable workers are expected to maintain a sense of loyalty to the company. This doesn’t mean anyone should never leave the company. It means to be the best possible benefit to the company while there.

10. Valuable workers are expected to be sources of valuable input and valuable insight. Work produces experience. Experience, in turn, produces knowledge. Knowledge, in turn, produces valuable input and valuable insight. If the company is wise, it will glean the precious nuggets of input and insight from its valuable workers.

We work to earn a living.

We work with others in earning a living.

As the world was made up of all sorts of people, I took note that the workplace was made up of different kinds of workers. As a matter of fact, I closely observed six sorts of ants or workers in the workplace.

• Observation leads to knowledge.

• Knowledge leads to empowerment.

• Empowerment leads to survival and success.

There are different kinds of fruits in a garden.

There are different kinds of trees in a field.

There are different kinds of animals in a zoo.

There are different kinds of workers in a workplace.

A workplace can be a melting pot of people with different backgrounds and different beliefs.

Difference Creates Distinction.

I’ve seen six kinds of ants or workers in the workplace.

Let’s identify them:

WORKER ANTS: GOOD WORKERS

Good workers have good work ethics.

They’re the human ants in the workplace that are inherently driven to get the job done.

Having a good work ethic is like having a built-in program to perform, which means diligent work comes naturally to them.

Their built-in performance program is faithfully reflected in their persistent application.

Good workers personally believe that work is morally good and that for two fundamental reasons:

1. Survival—remaining alive by working to supply the basic necessities of life. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat, (1 Thessalonians 3:10).

2. Success—attaining set goals in life by working to reach them. Goals aren’t automatically reached. They require practical effort. An action plan is the vehicle for getting one to the destination of his goal. But he must work that plan of action, to walk in the reality of his goal.

They have a sense of urgency.

They’re conscious of the time factor and downtime interrupts their steady flow of work. Once they’re able to resume, they’re driven to make up for lost time. They put in extra effort to maximize production in whatever remaining time they may have, trying to win the day by finishing strong, and thereby have a sense of personal satisfaction for that day’s work. They genuinely believe in making a comeback.

They’re determined to succeed.

This necessitates not only timely reporting of encountered problems on the job to their superiors but also developing problem-solving skills. Whatever they can do, their personal sources of experience and knowledge are drawn upon, and they always leave room for improvement, to learn more.

These are the marked times on the job when they must be extra careful to make sure they don’t hurt themselves for being overzealous to get the job done—working faster than their ability to keep safe, and to keep from damaging property.

Ultimately, they understand they work for the common good of the workplace.

As each individual ant plays an important part in the colony, contributing to the common good of all, each individual worker on the job plays a significant role, contributing to the overall success of the company.

They understand they must take care of the company production-wise, so that the company, in turn, can take care of them pay-wise.

When it comes to work—that is, getting the job done—they’re self-disciplined.

All they need is an instruction or assignment, and they get right on it—and stay on it until completion of the assignment.

Their bosses like them not only for their discipline but also their dependability.

As machines are programmed to work, these self-motivated machines are programmed to work by virtue of their good work ethics.

They can be trusted. They’re trustworthy to be left to themselves to do their work, which gives their bosses a respectable measure of liberty, to be free to attend other job matters.

Time Managers: Seizing the Seconds, Maximizing the Minutes

They manage their time…and this includes downtime. During downtime, good workers will find something to do.

For slack workers, they’ll stand around or steal away to hold conversations, get on their cell phones, leave their work area without the boss’ awareness, etc.

But for diligent workers, they seize the seconds to do small jobs that may take only seconds; and, they maximize the minutes they may have to be productive in some way, such as:

• Helping to get things up and running again

• Getting other things done during downtime which they couldn’t get done during uptime

• Going to other work areas to help out in the meantime

• Cleaning up

Managing their time makes the difference between poor work performance (getting a little done) and rich work performance (getting a lot done).

Worker ants are diligent workers.

Diligent workers are time managers: they manage their time (whether uptime or downtime) wisely, with the personal determination of being as productive as they possibly can.

Time management is dishonored by slackers (workers that are slack in their work and waste their time) but honored by attackers (workers that attack other jobs because they wisely use their time).

Good workers know and respect the value of time!

Time Money: The Principle of Being Productive

Time is a key requirement for production.

Production, in turn, is a key requirement for profit or making money. Therefore, time is a worker’s greatest tool in the workplace.

• A good worker will wisely use his tools.

• A good worker will wisely use his time.

He has the tool of time.

He has the task of being productive.

He has the business knowledge that as long as he’s being productive, he’s making money—for the company.

His