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How To Find Meaningful Work. It’s a phenomenon that has become increasingly apparent over the last five years: For many people, the ideal job has morphed from one that offers lots of money to one that offers meaning--and a competitive salary doesn’t hurt, either.

How To Find Meaningful Work

It isn’t just that people are rejecting jobs at large financial institutions with questionable morals (see this New York Times article on Wall Street’s campus recruiting crisis). Jobseekers today want a position that makes them feel good inside. ReWork, a startup that came out of the 2011 Unreasonable Institute, may be the first company that places young professionals directly with "disruptive, world changing organizations"--including non-profits and all manner of triple-bottom-line businesses. Anyone interested in getting a job through ReWork fills out an application on the website. When a company that has signed up needs employees, they send their job openings over to ReWork before anything is posted to the public. Hiring Talent: 4 Traits Your Start-up Needs. Let's face it: People who work at start-ups are an unusual breed.

Hiring Talent: 4 Traits Your Start-up Needs

We love jumping head-first into problems that we have no clue how to solve, we become more energized the longer we go without sleep (thanks Breathable Energy!) , and perhaps the most unusual of all, we have this crazy drive to change the world. These elements, coupled with the risk of joining a start-up, makes finding quality employees pretty difficult. But I think we've done a particularly good job at Scvngr and LevelUp, and I think a lot of this is due to the fact that we've identified four key qualities that are essential for the start-up world, and four fail-proof ways to test for them during the interview process. So, here it is. 1. Why it's important: "No start-up, regardless of its stage, can survive without a dedicated respect to adaptability. How to test for it: 2. "At LevelUp, honesty is one of the things that keeps our team so efficient. 3. How it's important: "Confidence brings versatility. 4.

How to test for it: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Changemakers. Stress Is Not Your Enemy - Tony Schwartz. By Tony Schwartz | 7:50 AM April 24, 2012 How often do you intentionally push yourself to discomfort?

Stress Is Not Your Enemy - Tony Schwartz

I know that sounds a little nutty, but here’s why I ask: Subjecting yourself to stress is the only way to systematically get stronger — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. And you’ll get weaker if you don’t. We live by the myth that stress is the enemy in our lives. The real enemy is our failure to balance stress with intermittent rest. Few of us push ourselves nearly hard enough to realize our potential, nor do we rest, sleep, and renew nearly as deeply or for as long as we should.

This is easiest to see at the physical level. But those effects can be dramatically reversed, even very late in life. The principle is simple, but not entirely intuitive. Think for a moment about attention. Training your mind operates by the same principle as training your body. As your mind wanders, the challenge is to return your focus to the breath, or the task, or the book.