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𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙊𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙐𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜

There’s a belief that’s deeply rooted in the modern human experience that rarely gets questioned and it goes like this:

“Work is the main source of meaning in our lives“.

You see this belief absolutely everywhere:

𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙗 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙯𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 – 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 ‘𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚’ 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.

For some, this goes beyond ambition or diligence and becomes workaholism (an addiction to work and being a human doing instead of a human being).

If you’re reading this, then there’s a chance you’ve started to feel it yourself (which is why you landed on this page about being a workaholic) and so you have at least a subtle suspicion that work is taking up too much space in your life – not just in your schedule, but in your mind, your identity, your emotional world.

This isn’t an article about demonising work, though – work is a good thing and can be creative, purposeful, and deeply satisfying but when a good thing becomes an ultimate thing then we start to experience distortion that pulls us away from what’s REAL.

This article is about returning to your REALNESS so you can have a healthier relationship with whatever it is that you’re doing and live a life where you’re only ‘ultimate’ is your life itself.

Let’s dig a little deeper (full article):

https://olianderson.co.uk/workaholic/