Happy Labor Day loves!  In honor of the day I thought I'd offer up some signs that mean that the work you're laboring over is actually your life's work.

When I work with patients, I always ask them whether they’re doing their life’s work, because I truly believe that how we spend most of our day, and whether it’s in line with our life’s work, affects our health. When I ask a woman if she’s doing her life’s work, way too often, she stares at me blankly.

I’ve been pondering something lately, and I’d love to start a discussion about it. I’m dying to know how hard it is to be truly authentic in a bureaucratic business world.

Do you work on Wall Street, in a law firm, or somewhere in corporate America? Do you have a job with the military, in academia, in the government, or anywhere else where policies, rules, procedures, and conformity tend to override individuality, authenticity, and original thinking?

If so, how have you managed to integrate your authentic self with the restrictions of your job? Have your efforts to bring the REAL YOU to work benefited you professionally? Or have they held you back?

I’ve never worn a blue suit in my life. But as a doctor, I have worn a white coat and spent 12 years in academia, so I know something about all this.

We live in a strange time – where few of us ever seem to have any time.

Do you ever find yourself:

• running in circles like the proverbial tail-chasing pooch to accomplish projects --but  find yourself having to start them over because you were distracted by something else?
• zig-zagging across town like a taxi driver at rush hour to help a friend -- and forget to buy cat food for Mitzy?
• not finishing a project you started -- and feel guilty when you walk by it each day?
• cramming in so much ‘stuff to do’ that you allow your passion for life to be one more thing set aside?

If you answered Yes to any of these questions, you’re not alone. We tend to spend most of our life in a rush to get all things done -- while actually getting nothing done -- and never really enjoying life enough to make the important things happen!

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