Somebody may want you to do a karma but the moment you begin to do it, it becomes your karma. As your karma, you must infuse into it adequate vigour, appropriate attention, befitting interest and love. If these are lacking in you, then your karma will not give you joy at all.
So, it is always a question of the performer. If the performer fails to infuse enthusiasm, concern and love into what he does, the sense of contentment and fulfillment will be missing in the output. A mediocre job will give mediocre results and a feeling of insufficiency. Whenever such a situation takes place, search your mind and heart. You must reach a stage where your performance becomes joyful.
Whatever joy you will get when the expected result comes, the same joy you must have right from the beginning of your action. So, joyfulness should become a co-existential factor, a co-ordinate of your performance. As a corollary, it should become independent of the expected result.
Can you develop that much of love, attention, interest, dedication and devotion as a result of which all your actions will delight you equally? Suppose a devotee's Ishta Devataa has come and is standing before him. With what joy will he be looking at Him? The same joy he should get when he is at his work.
I don't think there is anything other than the performer, his personality, his attitude, his aim and his expression that have relevance to the results of his work. Think about this repeatedly and stabilize it in your mind.
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