Step Forward Into Growth
Do you feel like you have more potential than you’re expressing? Like there’s this gap between who you are and who you could be? That can be a frustrating place to be.
If you want to feel truly fulfilled, you need to realize your potential. You have to ask yourself what truly makes you come alive, and then do those things.
As always, small and consistent steps in the right direction is the best approach. Take the tiny first step and then build the momentum necessary to carry you where you want to be.
Also, note that the self-actualizing process doesn’t necessarily have to be about finding a more meaningful career. It’s an individual process that can just as easily be about becoming a great parent or friend (or something else entirely).
That’s why Maslow asks the question the way he does:
What must YOU be?
Growth or Safety According to Maslow, you have two options at any given moment.
You can either:
Step forward into growth.
Step back into safety.
So, if you want to feel fulfilled, what you need to do is step forward into growth, instead of back into safety. Again, and again, and again.