What is Meaningful Work?

“When you are competent, you can do your work at high standards. When you are a master, you invent the next level of your work, craft or business, which is a lot more attractive, especially to better clients and customers.” Thomas Leonard.

Autonomy: the opportunity to choose for ourselves a form of employment that suits our personal strengths, aptitudes and passions.

Authenticity: work as an expression of who we really are, our honest, open and beautifully unique selves.

Cooperation: encompassing teamwork, mutual support, beneficial and wholesome associations, genuine community.

Creativity: in a traditional arts and crafts sense, or creative with ideas, co-creative with others/the universe/God (depending on your personal beliefs), allowing what wants to come forth through us to arise.

Growth: a vehicle for personal and spiritual growth, an opportunity to learn from our mistakes, from others and from our relationships , from our interpretation of the world around us and our unique expression in and of it.

Happiness: facilitating happiness, choosing to be happy in our work.

Mindfulness: working in the moment, being open to intuitive and insightful input, being aware.

Path: knowing the direction and the essence of our journey, using our values as our compass.

Service: primarily focussed on giving to others, remaining non-attached to outcomes whilst committed to a path.

Simplicity: in planning, communicating, relating, organising.

Space: to reflect, to plan, to explore, to have lunch, to care.

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