Make The Corporate Mission Work For You

The simple way to protect yourself from workism while tapping into the power of – and deriving some meaning from – an organization's mission.

Back in January, we shared a post about how searching for meaning at work could be making you miserable.

Searching for Meaning at Work Could be Making You Miserable

If you haven’t had a chance to read it, check it out because understanding workism is foundational to breaking free from (or, better yet, steering clear of) its pernicious effects.

At The Change Laboratory, we try to remain realistic and honest about the environment we are all navigating on our journey to greater fulfillment. But we don’t tend to traffic in what we’re opposed to. Instead, we try to focus on what we are for. It’s a basic tenant of Positive Psychology and is a much more empowered way to approach the world and all its many, um, challenges.

So we want to revisit that workism post from a different angle.

Let’s look at the “searching for meaning” aspect of the trap of workism. More specifically, let’s look at how you can create your own sense of meaning AND safely derive meaning from an organization you – through choice or necessity – are aligned with.

How can you embrace an…