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Halimah Madeline Bellows
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Champion Your Career
Self-Help
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A Wake-Up Call to Meaningful Work
Within the past decade or two, people have been talking about “worthy work.” People don’t just want a paycheck anymore; they want more than that. In Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Laurence Boldt writes about three alarm clocks in relation to waking up to our life’s work. First, there is your internal clock, the desire for creative self-expression. This alarm goes off when you feel stuck, stifled or bored in your current work situation. You have talents and abilities that are not being fully used in your job‥ Maybe they’re even being fully ignored! You go to work because you have to, not because you want to. When the internal alarm goes off, you think, “OK, I have to start moving on and doing something else. What are my passions? I have to find my purpose.”
Book Excerpt
Champion Your Career
The second alarm clock is the external alarm which is a call to service, a call to a more meaningful experience of work. You become aware of what’s happening in the world around you and you think about where you want to devote your attention. It could be the old call of the suffering of others or something else saying, “There’s more out there for me to discover and to learn about.”The third clock is called the snooze alarm, because it wakes you up to the reality that the workplace is changing.
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