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Sep 202４

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What makes your work meaningful?

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Human Frontier Counseling Center
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What do you find meaningful at your work? It is very important for workers to findmeaning at their work, because it makes their job rewarding and interesting. It also
makes workers feel their job worth efforts and hardworking. The contributing factors
to make a job meaningful vary by individual worker, but recent research hasidentified four main categories of the factors as follows.

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Self-oriented
Relevance to one’s
identity
Persons find ameaning at work when
they are authentic
while performing theirCommunality job.
Integration
Persons find ameaning of their workin the others ororganizations whohave common values.

Individualization
Persons find ameaning of workin themselves.

Individuality
Contribution
Persons find ameaning of workin the others ororganizations.

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The first category is “individualization.” Workers find their work meaningful when
they can work autonomously or can feel their existence value in the organization.
Workers who demonstrate fully their abilities at their work and have a sense of
personal growth are more likely to find this type of meaning at their work.
The second category is “relevance to one’s identity.” Workers find their work
meaningful when they know their “authentic self” aligns with their work and theorganization. Those who consider their work as their calling will find this category
fitting.
The third category is “integration.” Workers feel their work meaningful when theyfind the value system of their organization very important and get a sense of
belonging to that organization.
The fourth category is “contribution.” Workers recognize a substantial value incontributing to the others and/or the organization.
There is no priority for these four categories of meanings of work. I would suggestthat you use them as a reference material for doing your work, considering your own
values and the characteristics of your work.

Counselor’s Oasis
The other day, I walked from my house to the railway station looking for something blue. I was surprised to find a lot ofblue things that which I usually had not paid attention to, such as buildings, advertising displays, signs, flowers, the skyreflected on the glass windows of a house, and even trash on the ground. I didn’t count all of them, but I think I could
easily spot as many as 50 blue things.
The blue color hunt is a kind of my mindfulness practice. Many people may associate mindfulness with meditation, but it
doesn’t have to be a meditation as long as you concentrate on “here and now”. However, you must be careful when you
practice mindfulness while walking outside for it can be a little dangerous. You may find yourself absorbed so much thatyou almost bump into someone or trip on a step. (laughs)