One thing I learned from self-help pioneer Louise Hay, author of How to Love Yourself, (and countless other self-help books), is that the quickest way to recover from feeling trapped and burned out is to discover (or rediscover), who you are and love yourself for it. It’s amazing how we change our energy and what we attract when we shift how we view and care for ourselves.
In a blog post I wrote earlier this year, I introduced you to the idea of operating from energy vs. effort. In that post, I asked you which of these 2 formulas were you following at your job…
Aptitude (what you can do)
+ Motivation (what you can gain or need to perform)
= Effort (hard work)
or
Attitude (what you believe about yourself and others)
+ Intention (what you believe others can gain as a result of your contributions)
= Energy (what you effortlessly give to others and attract for yourself in return)
Here’s a secret I didn’t share with you in that post – neither formula works optimally without one more factor. That factor is fulfillment.
Fulfillment, in the sense I am referring to, is defined in the dictionary as follows:
- to make full
- to meet the requirements of
Practicing fulfillment is about