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Maya Ackerman, PhD., the founder of Great Living Now, divides her time between research, writing, teaching, singing, and her family. Her mission is to help bring passion to our lives, through passionate work and passionate relationships. Click here to read more. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and .
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How To Find A Job You Like

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Did your job turn you into a clockwatcher? Do you count the minutes to freedom, only to return to the same boring job the very next morning?

I was there, too. I used to hate my job, which led me to hate my entire life.  In fact, hating our work is a problem of epidemic proportions.

80% of us dislike our jobs. Four out of every five of us wake up every weekday morning only to go to a job that bores us, annoys us, and brings us no satisfaction.

What can you do about it? How can you find a job that you actually want to go to? How do you find a job that you like?

Sometimes, the solution is easier to see when we look at the problem from the outside.

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By on April 11, 2013 in career, happiness

Two Ways That Money Steals Our Dreams (and How To Take Them Back)

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80% of us dislike our jobs. Eighty percent!! That’s 4 out of 5 people, dragging themselves out of bed every weekday morning, counting down the hours to come home, only to repeat the same senseless exercise all over again the next morning.

What’s worse, we feel powerless to do anything about it. And so, we are stuck.

How did this happen? How did the great majority of the population end up in this sorry state?

You guessed right. It all comes down to money.

The problem isn’t with money itself, but our perceptions of it. Like helpless fish in a net, we are caught between a rock and a hard place.

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By on March 18, 2013 in career

Passion: Bringing Meaning To Our Existence

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We all know that something isn’t right with today’s society. Something is missing.

We go through life doing everything we’re suppose to: we go to work, we get married, we have children, we save for retirement. And yet, even if we follow this recipe exactly, we might still feel that life is empty and meaningless.

Although we’ve made incredible scientific progress, we aren’t any happier. To the contrary, depression and anxiety are at an all-time high.

What happened?!?

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By on March 10, 2013 in career, relationships