Have you been worshipping your job?
You’ve been told your job should provide purpose, fulfilment, and identity. But what if the problem is expecting work to fill every gap in your life? This is your permission slip to stop asking your job - or your business - to save you. Instead, learn how to serve the work by first tending to your life beyond it.
In this article read-through, I break apart the perilous myth that work alone should carry all our burdens, value, and ambitions. You’ll walk away with a grounded framework for building a life where work is a partner, not the whole structure, and meaningful growth emerges from intentional practice, not desperate performance.
What You’ll Learn
Why most jobs cannot and should not be responsible for your identity, worth, or happiness.
The “tent pole” philosophy: how distributing your hopes and energy across work, purpose, value, wonder, and relationships creates resilience and perspective.
Practical steps for auditing your life and raising new “tent poles” that support your wellbeing.
How chasing financial freedom or external validation without inner clarity sets a trap for dissatisfaction.
The liberating truth: constraints, not unending ambition, foster abundance and true contentment.
Chapters
0:00 - Welcome and Intentions for the Unremarkable Entrepreneur Project
1:22 - Stop Asking Work To Save You
3:38 - Why Changing Work Won’t Solve Every Problem
5:06 - The Danger of Making Work a Religion
7:00 - When Work Amplifies What’s Missing in Life
8:57 - Rethinking Financial Freedom and the Pursuit of Value
11:10 - Constraints Matter More Than Ambition
11:52 - Activity: Tent Pole Audit
15:05 - Parable: The Gardener’s Choice
16:51 - Closing Challenge & Final Thoughts
Are you still asking your work to be the centre pole of your life?
Share how you’re redistributing your attention or what ‘tent pole’ needs reinforcing right now - your unremarkable wins are always welcome in the comments.
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