Purpose has become a popular topic over the last decade or so. And for the most part, this is excellent — it’s great to have purpose-driven organizations and it’s a wonderful thing for individuals to think about their purpose and focus their work in that direction.
But how does an energy-based approach to life and work intersect with this notion?
And can it HELP us find our purpose?
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In our business culture today, we have a relentless focus towards more— buying more, selling more, having more. We’ve even codified this unending expectation into our work lives in the form of “quarterly returns.” The explicit and implicit expectation set upon our most public organizations is unending growth, quarter after quarter, year after year, forever and ever.
More, more, more.
But we live on a planet with finite resources. How is it we think infinite quarter-upon-quarter returns aren’t just possible, but are actually sustainable…?
There’s something deeply unhealthy about this, and we see it clearly in the biological world, because there IS something that provides unending growth and ceaseless consumption of resources: we call it cancer.
Probably not the example we want.
Maybe you’ve heard this analogy before…
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Burnout at work is quite literally everywhere. Perhaps you read the recent article in The Washington Post, or saw how companies are adopting four-day workweeks to try to combat this problem, or checked out the piece in BuzzFeed about how Millennials are “the burnout generation.”
Or maybe you just looked in the mirror, or into the cubicle next to you.
Well, we believe burnout has a dirty secret… something hiding in plain sight. And it has to do with where it comes from — and how to fix it…
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JOSH ALLAN DYKSTRA
Creating a world where everyone can #lovework.