Purposeful Point: Knowing your true life purpose can prevent overwhelm that can lead to burnout. It can also help people recover from burnout.
I’d like to start today by sharing my own experience with burnout. I share this today because I know how painful and potentially devastating burnout can be. I also know the difference knowing one’s purpose can make in both preventing and treating overwhelm and burnout.
Review the distinction between the Cultural Perspective (CP) of a life purpose and the Life On Purpose Perspective. (Listen to Episode 004 for more).
Operating from the CP often leads to a tremendously active life of doing, doing, doing, but not necessarily with the experience of being happy, satisfied or fulfilled — a perfect storm scenario for overwhelm and eventual burnout. This is especially true when much of the doing is driven by some aspect of the fear and lack-based thinking of the Inherited Purpose — the ‘have to’s’ of an IP driven life.
With the Life On Purpose Perspective, the focus shifts from doing to being. What you do then becomes ways in which you’re choosing to express your true purpose.
We still live active lives. I enjoy having plenty of different ways of expressing my true Self — but by holding these as Purpose Projects, included in the doing is the experience of living consistent with my DILP — much more joy, satisfaction and fulfillment then become possible.
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