The Struggle for Fulfillment

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So I was talking about struggles... God help me! :D

I’ve wrestled with what so many of us do, the struggle for fulfillment. A lot of people give up, settling for less than their dreams or heart's desires. Some replace fulfillment with a show of the ego or boy's toys, glam and all that jazz. Some get a taste for power. It is never satisfied.

Others like the wonderful, recently retired Ash Barty, make the heart sing with their passion and character that they bring to their endeavours.

I wish I could say fulfillment was easy. There's a bunch of folks who make it sound that way. Maybe for them it was... sounds a bit fishy though to me.

'Success' is a billion dollar industry, with the ‘Greats’ showing us lesser lights the art of being like them. I laugh as I write that but it’s not necessarily their fault. :D We hold people up as idols in our culture. We worship winners. Some seem humble enough but then it doesn't pay to look weak.

In my earthly struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (God bless America), finding a way to succeed without forsaking one's authenticity has been fundamentally important. I didn't want to sell out for success, to sell my soul.

Yeshua, speaking on the subject of success, said "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you" (Matthew 6.33), & "He who seeks to save his life will lose it but he who lays it down, for my sake, will find it" (Matthew 16.25). Sounds like a riddle doesn't it? He did that a lot.

What I think it means and it is, of course, just my opinion... is a few things:

  • Going after the stuff isn't fulfilling.
  • Neither is ego.
  • Lay that down and understand that this life is not the be all and end all of things.
  • Who you are matters.
  • Who you become matters.
  • What you really want matters... 

but you won't get it until you know who you are, until you know that you are good enough - what Tammy called a 'matching vibration' in my most recent podcast here.

Many of us don't believe we're good enough for our dreams.
That's where becoming & faith comes in. 

It's a journey.

Falling upon the gentle art of coaching was such a delight. It helps to work things through in such a unique and gentle way. Having engaged in many programs that taught me their answers I was encouraged, through coaching, to find my own. 

What a game-changer! 

 


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