How Your Lack Of Purpose Contributes to Your Burnout
Could Your Purpose Involve Experiencing Your Essential Wholeness?
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4 min readNov 14, 2018
Life never follows our plans, does it?
It doesn’t matter how detailed your plan, or how long you have been working on it, or how organized — one day life is going to throw you a curve ball.
If you don’t know why, or how to use this curve ball, you will be headed for burnout.
Burnout is the ultimate expression of not living your purpose.
“Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. “— Sam Keen
Most people, whether they consciously recognize this or not, are searching for their purpose.
The interesting truth is, experiencing our essential wholeness is the true purpose for all of us.
Some people think that their purpose is to be happy.
This misperception can lead to a lot of suffering.
