Finding Meaning at Work during Challenging Times

For many people work feels different lately. There is uncertainty, there is constant change, there is the pressure to keep up with AI. You may be doing the same job you’ve always done, but it doesn’t feel the same anymore.

When our job feels connected to purpose, we feel more satisfaction and less stress. How we experience the same events can be radically differ between when connected to personal meaning or not. Working over the weekend on a project that matters can be invigorating and energizing while weekend work that feels meaningless can be demoralizing and draining. It’s not the work, it what that work means. Ideally, we would always work from this place of meaningful contribution, but in reality, that won’t always be the case. In this episode, I explore how to conjure up meaning when it isn’t readily available at work.