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Work is not a means to live life; it is your life.

A majority of our waking hours are spent at work, so why squander it and why sabotage ourselves with the presumption that there must be a hard boundary between work and personal life? So often it is perceived as only a means of making money or gaining status so that we can do something else that might fulfill us (and we often fail at finding something else anyway). And so we keep postponing our happiness, we keep delaying our search for meaning and purpose, and we keep making excuses on why right now isn’t the right time to make a difference.

So many of us have been blessed to have already found something to do, and if your hand has found something to do, then do it will all of your heart. The people around you depend on it; if you don’t believe that, then you relinquish the right to complain when your workplace, your community, and your country, or humanity as a whole, isn’t the way you wanted it to be. We are each as much of the problem as we are part of the potential solution.