I love the article! How true! For the longest time, I've tied my self esteem to how much I'm making. But recently, I've moved into self help, giving up every shred of security, because I came to realise that I feel most fulfilled by serving others.
I do recognise that it is tough to do a career switch especially if there are bills to pay. Hence, I really like Steve's analogy using a range of numbers to illustrate the point about the emotional and physical journey.
To those who need a little encouragement, here's a quote from Alan Cohen...
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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In case you have not read this news...the South Koreans appear to take finding meaning in their lives seriously. They stage their own mock funerals, donning traditional costumes for the dead and lying in caskets, so that they can have a "realisation" and thereafter, lead more fulfilled lives. Read the part about Samsung, South Korea's largest firm, which sent 900 workers from its factory to hold their own funerals so as to "motivate" them for better job performance =>
Hold A Mock Funeral To Find More Meaning In Life?
Evelyn