Can you find your purpose without losing your mind? - The Conduit
People dedicate themselves to being “good workers,” and being successful means keeping clients, customers, and managers happy while fitting into a company’s cultural norms. Unfortunately, success for the company does not always align with what is best for the person, and over time, a disconnect can emerge. This is what happened to me.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Travers suggests that recovery begins with clarity: unplug, reflect, and realign your behavior with your values. Without that step, even success can feel empty. But when alignment returns, so does a sense of direction. You stop just managing tasks and start acting with purpose again.
Both writers stress that burnout comes not from overwork but from... See more
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The Medium Newsletter • Burnout comes from a gap between what you do and what you believe in
“ resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work [...] as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfillment.”
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes... See more
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes... See more