Approaching the autumnal season can bring on significant shifts in our lives. As many plan a return to business as usual following a few weeks vacation, others are entering a stage of reinvention in work and career life, embarking upon altogether new vocational challenges.
Work can become a four letter word or that thing that adds purpose and worth to your existence. Whatever your circumstance, consider your definition of work and where it fits into your life spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
Job satisfaction can mean a great deal more than a hefty pay check. Though a more than adequate salary can soften the blows of unhappiness at work for a time, toiling in malcontent hours each day that stretch into days each year can weigh upon the spirit inviting sickness and disease. It is a sad story to tell of those who spend their entire working life unfulfilled to be afforded just a few years of long sought retirement.
The definition of responsible adult means our priorities lean toward the practical matters of provision and protection when we have family to consider. Admittedly it is difficult to change course midstream due to lack of joy in your work when you have a mortgage and children to feed, clothe, and educate.
But what of the possibilities if you were to even consider dusting off the dreams and passions you cast off or put aside for whatever the reasons. This may be your season to revisit, to reinvent, and re-envision.
"Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally come." ~ Oprah Winfrey
How do you define the meaning of work in your life?
Does your current work and career situation energize you or do you feel drained by it?
If a change in vocation is what you seek, what has kept you from moving in that direction?
