Our culture tells us that we need to be giving our WHOLE SELVES to our work.
That we need to be sharing our full authenticity with everything we post to social media.
That we should be able to be fully transparent and open in all of our relationships.
That every passion or interest we have needs to be monetized or ‘made into something’ on some level.
We’re told that to be successful, satisfied or fulfilled in life we must be continually putting more effort into what we are doing and contributing to the world.
We’re told that a life fully lived is a life where we have given our all in all aspects of our lives - and where we are going 100% pretty much all the time.
We hear phrases like ‘how you do one thing is how you do everything’ and we take that to mean that we must be giving the same amount of effort in our relationships as we do at work as we do in our self care as we do in our hobbies and so on and so forth.
For most of us, this doesn’t lead to a life that’s more satisfied and fulfilling.
But rather it leads to a life where we constantly feel like we’re failing whenever we can’t give that full 100%.
Today I want to talk about why this idea that we owe the world all of ourselves all of the time is actually totally out of alignment with reality, and how we can start to take ourselves back from this mindset so that we can find a much more balanced way of being.
We aren’t meant to be giving 100% in all areas all the time - this isn’t realistic or sustainable.
So how do we figure out where we SHOULD be giving more, and where we can pull back and conserve?
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