The Science Behind Returning to Work You Don’t Love.
Whether work is meaningful or meaningless is subjective. Plowing the land could be drudgery for one person and purposeful for the next.
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You Might Not Be as Safe as You Think You Are at Work.
We need to feel like the work we do feeds our purpose in life. We need to feel like we make an impact. We need rest, nourishment and safety.
Do Work That Makes You Cringe.
Generally, the more ridiculous you feel about your past work, the greater your growth has been. And that’s something to celebrate.
What If You Don’t Want Your Work to Define You?
You can't latch on to the bits about people you relate to... who work in a similar field as you, and pay more attention to them at the expense of others.
Venus and the Story of the Workaholic Priestess.
Since I have been working with Venus, I have finally begun to truly understand how to put into practice this old chestnut: Work to live, don't live to work.
Life Will Happen to You, Build Your Bridge and Get over It.
After coming off a horrible year of unemployment, and what was probably the worst depression of my life, I was offered a job in AZ. Exciting, right?
4 Elements of ‘Work as Play’: My Father’s Legacy to Me.
As the poet Rumi suggests, what we do is the beauty that we love. Beauty, love, and work, when blended together, can be called play.
Do the Strange, Sensitive Bird Thing.
We are the bird and the work is the song, and we must sing it while we can. And when this song comes not from a desire to please or to prove or to achieve, but from a profound and earnest longing in the sacred nucleus of us, it is holy work too.
5 Steps for Getting Off of the Ledge and Back into Life.
My belief at the time was that I would 'go' when the money ran out. I thought, "Well, fuck it, the Universe obviously must not want me in it." Job-hunting and interviewing became a daily practice of building myself up only to be torn down. So I gave the Universe a suicide deadline.
Never Check Email Before Noon (And Other Thoughts On Doing Your Best Work).
I love doing the most important thing first each day because the urgencies of the day have not crept in yet. I have gone a little far in this regard in that I have even pushed my first meal off until about noon each day. I have been intermittent fasting for three years now, which means that I ...