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Stop Feeling Guilty About Your To-Do List - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Do you often feel guilty or frustrated at the end of your work day for not getting as much done as you had hoped? These emotions are neither useful, nor healthy. What can you do about them? Practice self-compassion. Recognize negative ruminations for what they are: a story you’re telling yourself. Seize the opportunity to reframe and reappraise the situation. You might realize that: “I did my best today and I hope to get more done tomorrow; my colleagues probably understand because they’re busy, too.” Getting pragmatic about your to-do list is also important. Be realistic about what can be reasonably accomplished over the course of your day. Try making peace with the notion that you’ll never be caught up, and you’ll always have things that you really wished you’d gotten to. If you can accept the constant state of non-completion, the guilt will eventually fade.
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Meaningful work is something we all want. The psychiatrist Viktor Frankl famously described how the innate human quest for meaning is so strong that, even in the direst circumstances, people seek out their purpose in life.1 More recently, researchers have shown meaningfulness to be more important to employees than any other aspect of work, including pay and rewards, opportunities for promotion, or working conditions.2 Meaningful work can be highly motivational, leading to improved performance, commitment, and satisfaction.3 But, so far, surprisingly little research has explored where and how people find their work meaningful and the role that leaders can play in this process.4 Work
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