A Meaningful Career

A key place to start is with your career. Does it provide meaning as well as a good living? Would a career change, or simply a change in employer or specific job, offer better alignment between your overall worldview and how you spend the largest part of your days? Making a change is not easy—it can involve a new course of education or relocating, among other challenges—but the emotional and financial rewards might be enormous. Taking the time to design a life in which your work is deeply meaningful pays enormous dividends in personal satisfaction and social betterment and ensures that when you come home from work, you are enthused rather than depleted, with energy to devote to other priorities such as volunteering, family, and exercise.