The 3 Ways to Balance Money and Meaning

The money wasn’t important anymore; I wanted a fulfilling and challenging career that highlighted my strengths because I would devote at least forty hours of my week to that job. But, I also wanted to pursue a career that allowed me to enjoy my life outside of work.

If money makes you happy, so be it. If it’s having fun, likewise. If helping other people is what drives you, so much the better. As your father, it is not my place to assign you a motivation, but rather try to make sure you understand what your motivation is, and more importantly, the tradeoffs involved. If you focus on making money, you may sacri

I recently happened upon a short article, “Top Five Regrets of the Dying” by Bronnie Ware, who spent many years nursing people who had gone home to die. Their most common regret? “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Their second most common? “I wish I didn’t work so hard.” There are two way

Yet it will also become clear that pursuing a career mainly because it offers the tempting rewards of money and status is an unlikely route to the good life.