𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 — 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐃𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥?

Having worked across multiple countries and firms, I often found myself asking, how long does work stay relevant for us?

Does work need to always be exciting for us to continue doing it?

Is what excites us destined to become boring?

Is boredom a natural part of who we are?

Does purpose-driven work make it exciting again?

I see boredom as the moment when our mind, heart, and body are not aligned. When we feel no pull toward the task and want to abandon it. Think of working in audit when you were made for tax.

Excitement, on the other hand, is when we feel alive in the act itself. We do not get tired while doing it. We even wake up early to begin. Like an inherent writer forced into sales just to make quick bucks.

At first glance, many things feel boring. Our natural preference leans toward leisure.
Who hasn’t wished for just one more day of vacation before returning to work?

Yet boredom and excitement are not universal. They depend on upbringing, culture, necessity, and circumstance.
For someone in need, even the smallest job can feel exciting.
For others, devotion to faith may never feel boring, sometimes deeply exciting, sometimes purely mechanical.

Work often moves in cycles:
-Initial excitement,
-boredom as novelty fades,
-renewed excitement when we reconnect with deeper meaning, and
-finally neutrality at mastery, where work becomes second nature, almost meditative.

Some tasks may always remain boring. But most can shift between boring and exciting, depending on the meaning we attach to them.

And that is the point. Most things feel boring until we connect them with meaning.
But when something is aligned with passion or curiosity, meaning and excitement can appear together, a formidable combination that can keep us going for years.

For leaders, this matters. Roles can be refreshed, exposure widened, and stories told to inspire.

In the end, only meaningful work sustains excitement.