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Mar 2025
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#470 Squiggly Short: Why ‘Finding Your P...

THE SQUIGGLY CAREER
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In this short, Helen and Sarah share why searching for your purpose could actually be holding you back in your career development, and how focusing on purposeful work instead could be a more flexible and fulfilling approach. They also offer some useful tools and prompts to help you do understand what meaningful work looks like to you - without the pressure of having it all figured out.


Full episode: https://shows.acast.com/amazingif/469-do-you-need-to-have-a-purpose-at-work


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4. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’ [www.amazingif.com/books/](http://www.amazingif.com/books/)


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