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How to Make Tasks Matter and Find Meaning in Your Work
Find What Gives Your Work Meaning
Is it a connection to a certain cause? Is it engaging one of your skills or personal passions? Is it serving a specific population? Everyone has their own causes, the things that give their life meaning. Without knowing what you’re chasing, your quest for meaning will turn into a wild goose chase. So it’s worth reflecting on your “why” before you pursue any major changes.
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Cultivate Self Awareness
Ask yourself concrete questions to reveal your truth:
What are you working for? What impact do you want to create in your job? What skills do you want to develop and leverage?
Write a Career Mantra
Keep it short and simple—just focus on what gets you out the door every day.
Your mantra should encompass who you are, where you want to go, and the impact you want to make during your 9-to-5.
Recraft Your Job
Stop viewing your job description as a static, unchanging list of responsibilities. Even if that list completely reflected your career aspirations when you applied, you and your role probably evolved since then.
Approach your job title as a fluid set of activities—which you can change to fit your skillset and personal passions.
3 Main Ways To Recraft Your Job
- Change your tasks: modify your actual tasks to more closely match your goals and desired skills. Automate your tedious time-wasters and stop multitasking.
- Change relationships: identify how your effort might positively impact another person.
- Change perceptions: selectively focus on preferred tasks.
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Finding meaning
Employees who derive meaning from their work are mor...
How to find meaningful work
Define what meaningful work means to you.
Find your own personal satisfaction and connection to your work. It could be the people you work with or a project you are passionate about.
Personal engagement
There’s always some level of personal investment in your work.
If what you're doing has a positive impact, it adds up and makes you feel proud of what you’re working on.
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Meaning in Life
- Many of us struggle with finding meaning, as we are busy with our daily work and distractions.
- Meaning in life provides us with the purpose of getting up daily, energized and pepped up...
Meaningful Work
21–35% of our life is spent at work, making it a crucial part of our lives to spend at something we find meaning in.
Meaningful work should be:
- Motivating and purposeful.
- Should be coherent and make some sense.
- Should be significant.
Connected with a Purpose
Meaningful work is when we feel a genuine connection with what we do for a living and our larger spectrum of life.
It is motivating, creates deep relationships and helps others.
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Meaningful Work
- Doing something that one loves tends to provide clarity, happiness and a sense of purpose.
- People who find meaning in their work tend to be motivated, engaged, and empowered.
- I...
Factors For Meaningful Work
Three factors are important for meaningful work:
- Autonomy: Being in control
- Complexity: Learning new skills and overcoming challenges
- Effort and reward: Being able to visualize your life goals in your work.
Being in Control
Being your own boss is one of the main factors of finding meaning in your work. It makes you more invested and allows real innovation.
- You can ask for some flexibility in your work and build trust.
- You can start a personal side project where you are in full control
- You can redefine your work, and delve into areas you are passionate about.
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