Are you someone who sees work as being separate from your daily life - as if the moment you step foot inside the door of your workplace, you become someone else, detaching your needs and desires from your physical body? Many of us feel required to follow the rules of a corporate entity in exchange for a paycheck. Is it any wonder we go home at night perplexed by the question, "Is there something more?"

Buddhism teaches us to be still and to not want. Christianity, to some degree, also leans towards this teaching. Eastern philosophies state that wanting leads to dissatisfaction, and in some cases that is true. But, even stagnancy can produce dissatisfaction, especially stagnancy in a job where you spend many hours of your daily life. Knowing the distinction between when to stay and when to go makes all the difference in the world. As the well-known verse goes, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to know the difference."