Manual № 73 · Finding meaning and direction in work

WorkWorthDoing

The manual for finding meaning and direction in work.

Not finding your passion. Building something worth doing out of the job you have.

12 modules — for the person who is not unhappy enough to quit and not content enough to stay

  1. 01The State You Are Actually In
  2. 02What This Might Not Be
  3. 03The Passion Problem
  4. 04What Actually Predicts Meaning at Work
  5. 05Task Crafting: Changing the Work Itself
  6. 06Relational Crafting: Changing Who You Do It With
  1. 07Cognitive Crafting: Changing What You Say It Is
  2. 08Values, Done Properly
  3. 09Which Problem Is This, Really
  4. 10Testing a Direction Before You Bet on It
  5. 11Money, Obligation, and Whether to Quit
  6. 12The Plan, and the Review Date

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01How Interest Actually Grows
  2. 02The Crafting Grid
  3. 03The Energy Audit
  4. 04The Three Needs
  5. 05Job, Career, Calling, and What Each Costs
  6. 06The Level Locator
  7. 07Values as Verbs
  1. 08The Cheap Experiment
  2. 09The Informational Conversation
  3. 10Sunk Cost and the Credential
  4. 11The Quit-or-Stay Procedure
  5. 12Possible Selves
  6. 13The Calling That Does Not Pay
  7. 14The Second Half

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.