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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.” Steve Jobs, founder of Apple
Work, conceived of as the sustained effort and contribution to meet the needs and desires of humanity,has been shown to positively affect numerous health and well-being outcomes. Work is often today viewed simply as paid employment, but it can also encompass activities like caring for children or substantial and sustained volunteering efforts to accomplish some good. In this activity, you will have the chance to implement what is known as job crafting. Job crafting is a behavior that we all already do to some degree. This activity is meant to help you become more conscious of this behavior.The idea of job crafting is that one reflects upon one’s work environment and takes actions at work to try (i) to structure one’s tasks so that they can be done more effectively, or so that tedious tasks are no longer necessary and more challenging tasks are made available; (ii) to have better, more meaningful, or more effective social interactions at work; and (iii) to find meaning and purpose in the work being done. The first step, which you will complete below, is to develop a job crafting plan. This is a basic outline of how you will go about increasing your job crafting. Then, over the next six weeks you will commit to implementing that plan. You will check back weekly and write about both how you have been doing as well as what you might be able to do better in the upcoming week.
Job crafting is a behavior that we all already do to some degree. This activity is meant to help you become more conscious of this behavior. You'll commit to a six-week plan to improve your job crafting. The first step, which you will complete below, is to develop a job crafting plan. This is a basic outline of how you will go about increasing your job crafting. After completing this first exercise, you can then complete an (optional) reflection entry. We find it helps to write down your expectations, what you want from this experience, down now. This entry will be saved so that you can return to look at it over the next six weeks while completing this activity. Your entry will also be stored as part of your history. Then, you will have the option in the next step to take any of the included measures. This is a good way to track your progress both in this activity and overall. Finally, you’ll select the day of the week on which you would like to do this activity and set how and if you want to be notified on that day.
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