Achieving Work-Life Balance - The Truth About Motivation & Success

We all have goals on life.

Some are short term.

Some are long term.

But what is the motivation out of which we create and pursue these goals?

The reason we create goals in life is to create and sustain a sense of motion.

Without feeling like we are moving towards something, we feel useless and uninspired and experience an existential lethargy.

We need goals to feel engaged and connected to the natural world.

Every goal you set in life is ultimately a goal of nature and evolution.

Even the most individualistic seeming of goals are primed by some desire to benefit the collective life around you.

You are a part of nature's progression, and if you wish to feel alive and a part of the system of existence, you must move forward with it.

Experiencing and participating in the collective forward motion of life is essential, but we must also be careful to not become so swept away by it that we forget to also enjoy our individual lives.

We must learn the balance between actively working towards and pursuing our goals, while still being able to enjoy our life around them.

Our sense of identity and self-worth do not have to be attached exclusively to the cycle of goal-oriented success.

The cycle being; goal-task-accomplishment-repeat.

This cycle infinitely regresses on itself, and searching for our overall wellbeing within it will only leave us empty handed.

True wellbeing comes from enjoying and being motivated towards goals, while not solely depending on the for a sense of enjoyment and self-worth.

When your goals become your only lifeline to life itself, you bring anxiety, desperation, risk-aversion, and fear into them.

It is important to be motivated and passionate about the outcome of your goals, but the paradox is not being so overly dependent on them that you forget to enjoy them and take risks to develop them.