It’s all about alignment of what’s inside your heart and what the world needs...’ “The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it’s to make meaning,” said John Seely Brown, who presided over research for two decades at Xerox Park.

“Talented people are looking for organisations that offer not only money, but...spiritual goals that energise...(that) resonate with the personal values of the people who work there, the kind of mission that offers people a chance to do work that makes a difference.” Be warned: The relentless irritation of not loving what you do makes you a pain to be around and has been clinically proven to chip away at your health.

“We spend our health building our wealth,” said author and financial advisor Robert T. Kiyosaki, paraphrasing the old proverb. “Then we desperately spend our wealth to hang onto our remaining health.”

After several successful, but unrelated, entrepreneurial stints, Kiyosaki changed careers again at nearly age 50 to write his first book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, which has sold more than 17 million copies.

Wouldn’t it be “better to do what we love in the first place so we don’t bankrupt our well-being” in a vain attempt to earn our way to freedom? There is a good chance you feel there is something missing in life — or you are on an incessant search for meaning — until you make one simple choice. — Beliefnet.com