Meaningful Work

clipped from pos-psych.com Flourishing or Soulless Work? By Timothy So “Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.” Albert Camus Explanation of Crisis 2: Pursuing Extrinsic instead of Intrinsic Goals Many people work very hard solely for the opportunities of promotion, higher salary and status, competition with counterparts, recognition from others, or even fulfilling parents’ expectations. According to Deci and Ryan (1985), these motivations are all “extrinsic” in the sense that they are rewards external to the individual. On the contrary, Deci and Ryan also proposed some “intrinsic” motivations which are inherently interesting or enjoyable, such as the feeling of competency and self-worth. Understanding and appreciating the meaning of work definitely brings intrinsic motivations. Compared to extrinsic ones, intrinsic motivations are suggested by researchers to enhance employee well-being and job satisfaction – such that you will never find your work soulless.

Love is in the air

Love...it is a positive thing

clipped from www.google.com What is Love Anyway? from Positive Psychology News Daily by Aren Cohen Perhaps one of the biggest challenges is that love, like all positive emotions, borders on the spiritual. Yes we can give it words, we can give it science, but at the end of the day, what we feel borders on the magical, because it happens uniquely to us, in only that rarified situation. When we feel it deep in our hearts and our brains, our need to translate it into words and science recedes into the background. Maybe that’s why we have love songs. They allow us to feel it, to confirm that love does exists, and that people definitely love each other, no matter what questions the musicians might ask.

Work is becomming 24/7

I am a wife, a mother and I own and run an online business. Gone are the days of clearly defined boundaries.

clipped from www.drewsmarketingminute.com Are the walls between our personal and professional lives crumbling? When I was growing up, my dad set the standard for how a business person behaved. He went to work every day, did his thing and came home. He would, on occasion, bring some work (read -- paper) home with him. I'm sure my dad made friends at the office but I didn't know or hear about them. Today, I look at my two worlds (work and personal) and the line is awfully blurry. Sometimes I wonder if that's a good thing. What do you think about this phenomenon? Do you think this merging of our lives has something to do with the fact that the old work day of 9-5 is also a thing of the past?