Gratitude gets a bad rap as being some sort of “feel-good” thing, but it’s not. Real, true, deep gratitude comes from soul. It’s not some pop-culture thing. It’s not something you say to make yourself look good or to make someone else feel good.

Real gratitude is truly appreciating what you have, and feeling it’s enough. Sure, there are other things you’d like to have. There always will be. But in gratitude, you realize that if you don’t get new car or new house, it’s enough.

We should be “grateful for gratitude” because it’s one of fastest ways to appreciate our lives and feel happier. This simple technique, practiced every day, can change your life.

I can’t work at “just a job” for more than about six months before my head explodes. I don’t know about you, but I have to have a job that means something to me. I’ve gone through several businesses doing work that was important to me, and I’ve finally found my life’s work in life coaching.

The first meaningful work you find may not be your life work, but I guarantee you that if you’re doing work you don’t find fulfilling, you’re not getting closer to your life’s work. You get there only by trying on things that might be it and finding out they’re not. And working at Post Office, while it pays well and has good security, is probably not on track to work you were born to do.

Take some chances. Take some jobs that feel right, even if there’s a “better” job available. Start journey to your life’s work and don’t stop until you can say, “This is work I was born for.”