Do You Find Meaning Or Your Work Has No Soul?

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What is your life, your career, your service to the community, raising your family, maturing into a solid person, or all the things you do in your spare time??

Or is your life work something more mysterious that rises out of all these things??

There are many reasons why people don’t like their jobs as there are jobs themselves. Bad bosses top many people’s lists of gripes, alongside difficult co-workers, limited resources, employer demands to work increasingly long hours, and ethical challenges that may force employees to choose between corporate profitability and doing the right thing.?

Despite these objections, work provides an important source of meaning to many people. Recent research has shown meaningfulness to be the most important aspect of work to employees, trumping pay, rewards, recognition, promotion opportunities, and even working conditions.

Being able to find meaning in your work is a key factor in creating a positive work experience. Instead of pursuing happiness, which is the result, not the cause, of well-being, a more effective approach is to instead seek meaning, value, and purpose in what you do each day

Experiencing work as meaningful doesn’t always happen consistently, let alone a daily one—it tends to be much more episodic than that. So just because you have a bad day today, it does not mean that you won’t have something happen tomorrow that creates a sense of meaning for you.?

Think of your work-life not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life, whatever your business, it is your ministry ~ Marianne Williamson?

Finding Meaning At Work?

Increasing a sense of meaningfulness at work is one of the most potent–and underutilized–ways to increase productivity, engagement, and performance.

In the past, there has always been a clear distinction between a person’s work and their personal life. Many people would leave work at 5 pm and drive home, and they would push work out of their minds so they could focus on other things like their hustle, family, and friends.

With the pandemic, things have changed, people no longer spend each day at their respective workplace than their will at home. We all want to enjoy our professional lives, but many people who are still dissatisfied with their work are still asking, 'Why am I doing what I'm doing?'

Have you ever asked yourself this question, I know I have asked myself this question many times in my career.

Do you still feel this way or are you enjoying the comfort of your House-Home-Office???

A lack of fit between jobs, and cosmology can have several effects in our lives: A job is never just a job. It is always connected to a deep and invisible process of finding meaning in life through work.

Become The Person You Were Meant To Be

Most of us have moments in our lives, when we are so involved in work, we enjoy that the time goes by faster than seems normal, I know it usually does when I'm caught up by the anointing, and I just want to write and not stop, at other times I watch the clock and the minutes go by like hours.?

I always hear people talk about looking for the right job or a job that will pay them well, but what we want is work that we can love.

To find work that has meaning and that we can love comes with two challenges: #1. To find work that we can love, and #2. To find love for what we do.?

In?A Life’s Work, Thomas Moore turns to an aspect of our lives that looms large in our self-regard, an aspect by which we may even define ourselves—our work. The workplace, Moore knows, is a laboratory where matters of the soul are worked out.

A?Life’s Work?is about finding the right job, yes, and it is also about uncovering and becoming the person you were meant to be.

Moore reveals the quest to find a life’s work in all its depth and mystery. All jobs, large and small, long-term and temporary, he writes, contribute to your life’s work. A particular job may be important because of the emotional rewards it offers or for the money.?

But beneath the surface, your labors are shaping your destiny for better or worse. If you ignore the deeper issues, you may not know the nature of your calling, and if you don’t do work that connects with your deep soul, you may always be dissatisfied, not only in your choice of work but in all other areas of life.?

Moore explores the often difficult process—the obstacles, blocks, and hardships of our own making—that we go through on our way to discovering our purpose, and reveals the joy that is our reward. He teaches us patience, models the necessary powers of reflection, and gives us the courage to keep going.

A Life’s Work?is a beautiful rumination, realistic and poignant, and a comforting and exhilarating guide to one of life’s biggest dilemmas and one of its greatest opportunities.]

Awaking The Genius In You

When you step back and look at the many things you have done, you may see the root inspiration and essential direction. It may be difficult to pinpoint exactly what the common thread is in your life until you recognize your geniuses at work. [We find out who we are by allowing our natural being to shape our lives]?

Rise To Your Calling?

One of the most transitions you can make about your work is viewing your work as a calling rather than just merely a job. We all have a calling simply because we're on earth with a divine purpose, to rise to the level of our highest create pcreationlity, expressing all that we are intellectually, emotionally, physiologically and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. As we do this our entire life becomes our ministry, a way to serve God and to serve the world.?

In conclusion?

The path toward life work is a dynamic process, it goes through many phases for most people. As you develop as a person, your ideas about work shift accordingly and move closer to your goal of a meaningful job. Be true to your ethics and you have a better chance of knowing what to do in life. Our life work is largely about our experience of life on the planet and not necessarily any external measure of our accomplishment.

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