Source https://zenhabits.net/meaningful/
By Leo Babauta
For anyone trying to do meaningful work, feeling connected to that meaning can be a big challenge.
It turns out, even if you can stay focused on your meaningful work for most of the day … it’s easy to lose connection to why it’s meaningful. To why you care about doing this in the first place.
We get stuck in the drudgery of doing endless meaningless tasks, stuck in task mode, rather than feeling that the tasks are meaningful ways to spend our day.
So how do we deal with this challenge? Not surprisingly, the answer is practice.
Let’s take a look.
Have a Deeper Why
If you haven’t done this step yet, don’t skip it. We need to find a deeper reason to do our work, other than, “To get paid,” or “Because it’s on my list or in my inbox,” or “Because other people are waiting for me to do…