![]() ![]() A personal trainer who helps her clients get healthier. An artist whose work gives people a new way of seeing the world. A software engineer whose app empowers creators. A counselor who helps someone deal with their grief or anxiety. A flower gardener whose product will make people’s homes happier. Yoga teachers who bring a measure of inner peace to people’s mornings. Scientists who are advancing human knowledge. A bus driver who keeps his students safe so they can learn. Mothers who help babies grow into wonderful people. Writers who inform or delight or provoke. Volunteers who help with a project that makes a community better. Teachers who see a kid’s eyes light up when they do a science experiment or read a good story. People in all kinds of fields have found meaningful work – it’s usually when you’ve done some good in the lives of others. Work that feels like I’m doing something good in the world. I’m incredibly lucky to have work that I find meaningful.īut it is one of the most incredible things I’ve been able to create in my life. Not everyone has the luxury of doing meaningful work – maybe you have to work at a fast food restaurant just to buy groceries, for example. Sure, at least you didn’t just procrastinate all day, didn’t fritter the day away in distractions … but there’s more to life than just churning and being super busy. But at the end of the day, you just churned through a whole bunch of things, and it doesn’t feel that meaningful. Make it smaller so it’s easier to startĪnd yes, getting stuff done is so much fun. ![]() Set aside everything else and do only that one task.I’m really good at getting a lot of things done, taking action, piling up a buttload of completed tasks.Īction isn’t my problem – it’s making the tasks themselves feel more meaningful.ĭo any of you have that problem, that your work just feels like busywork, not super meaningful?īy the way, if your problem is not taking action … here’s my action rules:
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