Create Meaning at work. These three tips can help.
Create Meaning. How can you find more inspiration at work?
Funnily enough, I’m in a position to give you three useful tips.
My Unexpected Specialty to Help You Create Meaning
Last week my client Sam started a fabulous new job. He’s a sweet guy, seeming as though he has led a charmed life. Actually, his last job turned out to be a nightmare…
Due to a vicious, incompetent supervisor — Ms. Bossy-Boss. Evidently her favorite occupation was making work life hell for others.
But with Sam, she didn’t succeed: Sessions of Energy Spirituality™ helped Sam to keep his job. At least, until he got a much better one.
You see, I helped Sam to create meaning. And solve problems. Becoming more resourceful by using his creativity.
And Sam’s hardly the first client I helped in this way. So believe me when I tell you…
Funnily Enough, One of My Specialties Is to Help You Create Meaning at Work
Even if you really dislike that current job of yours.
As you know, standard career advice goes like this:
In order to get a better job, if at all possible
Stay employed at the job you’ve got.
Only those experts don’t generally tell you how to make that bearable.
So let’s go for three practical tips. Right now.
Create Meaning Tip #1. Stop
In particular, stop telling yourself that story in your head.
While at work — and also outside of work — stop wailing and kvetching over that story.
Which tale of woe? Which victimey-ragey story? Oh, if you’re reading this article right now, chances are that you know very well. Because you’ve got one.
One of the Less Helpful Ways We Sometimes Use Our Creativity
That’s how we can make a not-great job into an epic-fail tale.
- On the bright side, we humans are storytellers. We make mythic tales complete with villains and heroes. Also, sometimes, victims.
- On the lumpy side — or whatever is the true opposite of the “bright side”… we can give a running commentary.
If you’ve been doing this, please don’t think I’m criticizing you. Making up stories worked great for Homer!
However, maybe not so great for you. Might I suggest? If you’ve been trying to create meaning this way, please stop. You can do better.
Create Meaning Tip #2. Look
As a matter of fact, you’ve got to do something… if not inwardly telling a secret tale of woe.
Why not look around you at work? In a natural way, pay attention to the job you’re paid to do.
Huh, why in a natural way? Because mindfulness practices can really louse up your job performance. And also stall your spiritual growth, actually.
What’s also not going to help? Making up a whole new set of stories to tell yourself while at work. Such as:
- Positive thinking stories. Unless your aim is to create meaning at work by turning kinda phony.
- Religiously evangelical stories. Like converting others you work with.
Instead, look around you. What are you doing? Already you’re doing your reasonable best. Might you be able to do a slightly better version of that?
When you look at the reality of doing your job, what can happen?
You just might create meaning by learning more about how to do that job.
Thereby advancing your career.
Create Meaning Tip #3. Listen
Just in case you’re wondering, I’m not going to recommend: Listen to the angels, instructing you in Create Meaning Hymns.
Rather, listen to your own creativity.
If you think about it, maybe you’ll realize:
Creativity is something you express outside of yourself. In objective reality.
Yet that very same creativity begins within you. In subjective reality.
Such as, how can you improve on that task you are doing right now?
Yep, that would count as creativity. In the process, you just might bring more meaning to your entire life!
BTW, what can you do if you don’t feel creative? Or you simply don’t know where to start, not when it comes to your own creativity.
In Conclusion
Yes, you’ve been given three tips for productively using creativity at work. And thereby creating more meaning. Even while you keep that job.
Now it’s your turn.
As always, ask your questions. And share your stories. COMMENTING is super-easy at this Energy Spirituality Blog.
Incidentally, what IS Energy Spirituality™?
Simply put, Energy Spirituality aims to help people like you with personal growth and spiritual awakening.
Using unique energy-related skills that work now, in the Age of Awakening.
Just to lead off our usual lively COMMENTS, I’ll be sharing a couple of tips about how to NOT Create Meaning.
Incidentally, Blog-Buddies, at the rate we’re going these days… Very likely we’ll reach a new Discovery Moments milestone within a week: 83,000 comments. Not bad for a one-person blog!
Thanks for reading, everyone. I hope that I’ve helped you a bit today.
As promised, two more tips to help you to Create Meaning, even when your workplace is frustrating.
These are both DON’T DO-type tips.
Tempting though it may be, don’t hate your job.
Hatred is a pretty expensive luxury, bringing consequences that aren’t readily apparent.
You can make a non-negotiable decision to stop hating anyone.
And probably not in the way that first occurs to you.
My advice? Check out the link just given to you in the Comment #3.
Include reading the fabulously helpful comments that have come in. This Energy Spirituality-style info can help!
Second tip of the DON’T DO variety?
For many reasons you may feel tempted to blame a narcissist at work. One or more so-called “narcissists.”
Here I’ve got two different links to help you take a courageous, counter-culture stance. And categorically refuse to blame narcissists.
#1. Do you have any idea how bad it can be for you, taking it upon yourself to diagnose and then blame narcissists?
If you find this blogpost helpful, please share it with friends. (If you dare. It IS counter-culture.)
#2. And here are some other good reasons to avoid “spicing up” a dull or frustrating workplace… by calling people narcissists.
May this Energy Spirituality perspective help you!
I don’t work. I’m on disability.
What you said can help me too. Thank you very much. I’m glad to have discovered this blog.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, JOLENE.
When your job is making a life for yourself while at home, or caring for others while at home — seems to me that using more of your creativity can make a huge difference.
Any way to make my day happier is a hit with me!
I hear you, MELISSA. And isn’t it an interesting thing how, when we enjoy our lives more… we worry less about creating meaning.
Also maybe we’re not so drive to “live my purpose.”
Self-help articles are a dime a dozen. One reason I choose this blog, and come back again and again, is how you don’t just recycle the usual cliches.
This article seemed like an easy read but to me it was much more than that.
TONY, thank you. This comment was definitely meaningful to me.
I love this article, Rose!
I, for one, have had so much help from Energy Spirituality sessions for my career. These sessions have definitely helped me to create meaning and find it easier to handle difficult situations.
Not just be the sorry victim of circumstance but to persist with problems. Though I can’t say I didn’t ‘kvetch’ at times.
In fact, I think I even had at least once session for a career issue that helped me stop the wailing and complaining in one situation.
In fact, for one particularly difficult situation in my career, on my way out, colleagues asked me “how did you do it? how did you cope?” –
Well I coped because I was able to avail myself of Energy Spirituality sessions!
Thank you so much, ANNE. Knowing some of what you went through, I’m touched… and admire YOU more than ever.
Thanks for sharing what you’ve learned here, Rose.
I like my job a lot, but there are problem areas.
I think reading these tips helped me to shake off the dust.
There are improvements I can make. No need to feel victim-y when it’s really not the case.
JANICE H., you’re so welcome. Often it’s up to us about whether we feely victimey.
And if something terrible happens, we can treat that like a problem to solve; later being proud of how we’ve recovered.
Rather than spending the rest of our lives “entertaining” others with the story of our victimhood. Or asking others to give us special consideration.
Carolyn Myss hit the nail on the head, I think, when she coined the term “Woundology.”
May I tell you a secret? I don’t seem to have any creativity.
I’m sure others are in the same boat, although most wouldn’t admit it at a blog. They might not even be willing to admit it to themselves.
Here I am though. I admit the lack of creativity.
What is the alternative for people like me? Where is our inspiring article at your blog to help us create meaning?
DARSH, good to hear from you! That boat you’re in is huge. Millions of people don’t know how to use their creativity (yet).
In my view, that includes people who study music, art, writing, and so forth. These folks learn skills but they’re not necessarily using their creativity. Rather, they’re learning techniques specific to the official art form.
Oops, indirectly you’ve reminded me of some comments-in-progress from our patient Blog-Buddy PENNY, at a discussion of creativity myths that can help to respond to your Comments #25-26.
Here and now, in your honor, this is what I’d add: DARSH, you can learn how to use your creativity, how to understand it better, and how to wake it up.
That link just supplied is a great way for you to get started.
Thanks for this blog post, Rose.
I’ve read it through three times in a row!! I think it’s helping it to sink in.
OSCAR MANUEL, the brevity of your comment belies its power.
Reading through any of the posts at this Energy Spirituality Blog… For a surprising reason can that be a great idea.
As some of you Blog-Buddies know, Energy Spirituality is a truly Age of Awakening blog, bringing new ideas into the world, skills and understandings and books and workshops… loaded with what works NOW, in the Age of Awakening.
My friends, it’s good that I don’t mind working hard. Because it’s trickier to understand, and remember (and write) about these innovations.
You see, Collective Consciousness already has established cliched favorites in mainstream thinking; those are far easier to understand and remember. (If you click on that link just supplied, you’ll see why.)
Reading through this post a few times can be helpful because it is so decidedly not supporting the internet’s big clichés about how to bring meaning to life.
Just for fun, here are a few examples of number of hits for certain ideas on Google.
“Create meaning in life” through creativity
388,000 hits.
Purpose brings meaning to life
551,000,000 hits.
Psychic readings bring meaning to life
938,000,000 hits
Jesus brings meaning to life
60,000,000 hits
And one last well-established cliche from Collective Consciousness…
Family brings meaning to life
295,000,000 hits
So there you have it, Blog-Buddies. Bringing Energy Spirituality ideas into your mind, even if they work better than obsolete Age of Faith clichés, can take a bit of rereading.
Big thanks to all you thought leaders, like OSCAR.
Hi, Rose! Another excellent article. I really could have used this in my last job!
On another note, I came across this article that I thought might be of interest to you and other blog readers.
The title caught my attention right away, since you have taught me a lot about not using psychological language during normal life.
“The Rise of Therapy Speak” by Katy Waldman, in The New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rise-of-therapy-speak?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker
I like some of the ideas (like “idiot compassion”… though the term makes me cringe).
JASMINE, thanks so much for sharing this article. I look forward to reading it. “The New Yorker” is my only hard copy magazine subscription.
After reading this article I do plan to respond to “idiot compassion.”
Already I can see a couple of possible meanings for “idiot compassion.” Yum! Will Katy Waldman be referring to:
* Compassion of an idiotic nature?
* Compassion for idiots? Perhaps along the lines of “They know not what they do”???
Really looking forward to that, Rose!
The article was published March 26, 2021, if you want to try to find it in the print edition.
I’m so glad I found this blog today. This article has already helped me.
Thank you for lifting my mood and giving me more courage to go on. Yes I can do these things.
JASMINE, thanks for that P.S. in your Comment #48. I’m looking forward to reading this article online.
Right now I have at least three not-yet-read, current issues of “The New Yorker” waiting for me.
SOFIA, welcome! This blog exists to uplift, to educate and to empower readers like you.
In addition we’ve got a very sweet Energy Spirituality Blog Community. Come join the fun, while all of us keep on making every day count, with emotional growth and spiritual awakening.
Rose, I’m a lover of books and a reader of books. You’re probably in the same boat, since you write and publish books as well.
Of course on significant reason to read books is how they can help us to create meaning, making more sense of our lives. How do sessions of Energy Spirituality Energy Healing compare?
Great question, MARTY! Books can tickle your intellect, or stretch you to feel connected to society in new ways.
Also, books can arouse powerful emotions in you. Any of these ways would count as bringing more meaning to your life.
By contrast, the distinctive Healing Centerpieces offered in sessions of Energy Spirituality can permanently remove particular kinds of energetic STUFF; astral-level garbage that limits one’s capacity to find purpose and meaning in life.
Also, how do sessions of Energy Spirituality aura reading compare, when it comes to creating more meaning in life? Here I’m thinking about the sort of information you might give clients directly when you read their auras.
Thanks in advance.
What a great question, MARTY. Thank you.
One way to approach an answer is for me to share the link to a YouTube video. Concerning what happens “When I Read Your Aura.”
Overall, if you want to create more meaning in you life, what’s one of the most important things you can do as a consumer?
Insist on finding somebody who can read your chakra databanks. Not just generalize about your aura.
For example, this blog gives you hundreds of examples of detailed aura readings and Skilled Empath Merges. Read them for free.
Maybe ask yourself, with each chakra databank you read about: “What are the practical implications for living? And for finding meaning in life?”
Lest any of you lurkers are thinking, “Heck, every aura reader does that”?
You might want to think again. For instance, check out this Google search on the term “Chakra Databanks”. Notice anything?
Not too many people are reading chakra databanks yet. And psychics just can’t do it accurately. (Although a few now, like Anna Sayce, are trying to jump on the bandwagon.)
MARTY, there are soooooooo many different ways that Energy Spirituality-style aura reading can help us to create meaning. I wonder if you or other Blog-Buddies would like to bring up one of the following?
Click on the colorful box and you’ll find a powerful set of different skills for aura reading.
I create meaning in my life by refusing to think a negative thought. If I have one I’ll replace it with something positive.
You know if I wasn’t such a believer in Only Good Vibes I might say in detail that I think you’re full of beans. Who needs an Enlightenment teacher?
True spirituality is free and open to all. Because God loves us, we should be able to get what we want on our own.
If anyone’s listening try what I’m saying here. Remember, positive thoughts will give you a positive life.
You’ve certainly shared your opinions here, JIM. Regarding your Comment #64, many folks at this blog are here, all or partly, due to the help I provide with Enlightenment teaching. Obviously you have no need of that.
Jim, in Comments #63-66: hey, I’m listening to you.
Isn’t it a struggle to control your thoughts? What if a negative thought gets past your highly-practiced sensors?
If you think someone is “full of beans” (Comment #63), isn’t that a negative thought?
Good catch there, JAKE — and you’ve also opened up an important aspect of the inefficacy of trying to control thoughts, or force them to be positive.
Whether through trying to activate one’s “highly-practiced sensors” or through some other mind-control strategy…
Whether through becoming ever inwardly duller, or inner dishonesty or confusion….
Whatever the fancy-dancing, here’s one thing I know for a certainty.
Different kinds of STUFF get stuck in a person’s subconscious mind, at the astral level of that person’s aura; giving rise to negative emotions and thoughts; limiting a person’s use of free will.
Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING can permanently move out different kinds of STUFF. Thus helps a person to spontaneously enjoy life more, become a greater source of kindness and clarity to friends, develop in career.
Like the latest one of my long-term clients who just received a big promotion at work.
I’m guessing that Sam got that promotion due to his effectiveness at work, and his likeability. Never does he try to “be positive.”
Sadly, attempt to have Only Good Vibes in a world of polarities, challenges, and problems to solve?
It’s ironic but true: “Being positive” often leads to phoniness, which is off-putting to other people. Not enticing to others — unless they, too, reek of that well-intended phoniness.
Yes, reek. Because maintaining the habit of phony positivity is like wearing some really cheap cologne.
What I mean to say, Jim, is that I think you might be fooling yourself.
I sure can understand your desire to think only positive thoughts. I’ve done a round or more of that myself. It is an honorable goal.
But I believe it is a fight you cannot win.
Rose and Energy Spirituality sessions and living “The New Strong” have helped me. No beans.
All so beautifully put, JAKE. Thank you for these words, compassionate and also true.
Fact is, an idealistic goal doesn’t guarantee beautiful results, nor good karma. Two words illustrate: The Crusades.
Incidentally, are any of you wondering about JAKE’S reference in Comment #79 to “The New Strong”?
That link just supplied will take you to the book page for my current top recommendation to any of you newbies here. (Except if you think you might be an empath, in which case I’d recommend “Empath Empowerment in 30 Days.”)
I’d like to mention something about clinical depression. I used to have that. Eventually I was put on some medication that has brought me back to life.
I don’t see you mentioning antidepressants and other forms of psychiatric medication. Are you against them?
Do you think that Energy Spirituality can take the place of medication, like you have to be able to heal yourself out of your brain chemistry problem?
For me, medication has made all the difference. I found this article pleasant and even useful.
Back in the old days, though, I would have read a little bit and then spent the next hour trying not to cry.
Sometimes we need support before we can create meaning. That’s what I think, anyway.
KYLE, thank you so much for these comments. Important to know: Energy Spirituality is not a substitute for any kind of medical help, nor is it an alternative to taking psychiatric medication.
I love your Comment #85. Seems to me you’re exactly right.
Incidentally, KYLE, taking psychiatric medication doesn’t keep a person from moving into Spiritual Enlightenment either.
I know that because of some of the students I’ve helped as an Enlightenment teacher, helping them move into Enlightenment.
If a person is living in Spiritual Enlightenment, I’m curious. Do you automatically find meaning and fulfillment wherever you go?
Or do you have to actively create meaning sometimes, like the rest of us.
Surprising or not, MARTY, the answer is both.
Excellent question, seems to me! Thank you.
Hi Rose, I like these 3 tips. Quite easy to follow.
I have a co-worker that complains about what someone else won’t do for her to make her life easier.
This is victim talk – she hasn’t stopped talking in this way in the several years that I’ve know her and it makes her look weak.
She talks of looking for another job, but to my knowledge has not yet applied for any. She could benefit from tip #1.
As for me, in the past month or so, I started to realize how much influence I have in my position.
I noticed the type of questions and input that I’m being asked to provide and realized where my knowledge and experience is of value.
Had I not looked at it from a slightly different perspective (using your tip #2), I may have just plugged along with my usual routine, answering questions only when asked, not realizing the value that I add when I speak up and add new insights or approaches to help shift the direction that leaders take.
That makes work a bit more exciting to know I’m influencing key decision makers.