What is fulfillment?
The art of fulfilment has many aspects! During my time as a Headhunter working with Supply Chain Professionals, I often came across the notion of fulfilment, a process of taking an order and executing it by making it ready for delivery to its intended customer.
Now, being a coach, fulfilment has taken a whole new dimension; it is a feeling of happiness because you are doing what you intended to do in life.
It is like you are taking the order of your own joy and delivering it to yourself by doing what lights you up. I see fulfilment as the fine art of living a joyful, balanced and meaningful life. Everybody wants it, yet, most people struggle to live it! It feels like seeking the Holy Grail!
Wake-up your adventurer soul!
Now, picture this, you are Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, in the best movie ever made… Your crusade: In Search of Fulfilment!
Like an adventurer, on a quest to find the most precious treasure of all time: getting to know yourself better to feel fulfilled! During that quest, you are curious, looking for clues, trying things out to see where it leads. You take risks and face obstacles. An obstacle here, you overcome it, a giant one rising there, you might need to take a step back and look for a different solution, maybe contouring it… Yes, this quest is challenging but so worth it.
The key is to get to know yourself better, to understand what makes you tick, what lights you up!
I have come to understand that it is not that easy. We are so caught up in our day to day lives that we don’t take the time to slow down and listen to ourselves and to our desires. Like driving from one place to another and realising that we don’t remember the journey… Sounds familiar? We tend to not pay attention and forget to be in the present moment.
Ikigai
As many of you might have heard, in Japan, they talk about Ikigai. It means a ‘reason for being’. That’s a comprehensive way of looking at it.
I am certainly on that path and it is beautiful, and fun, and hard, and scary, and exciting… all at the same time!
Now, I am coming back to my first loves, helping people, nature and animals. As a child, I wanted to be a Veterinarian and then a Marine Biologist… It didn’t quite go as planned but now, with the skills I have acquired through the years, I can certainly contribute in helping people embracing a better life and I am looking at ways to support sustainable initiatives and marine conservation.
The art of fulfilment
I like the holistic approach of looking at a person in its entire being. To be truly fulfilled, take a look at all the areas of your life, everything is connected. Who hasn’t had their life affected at home after a painful day at work, or vice versa (even unconsciously)?!
That’s why fulfilment could be seen as an art. Like a tightrope walker, you juggle with the globes of your life, keeping your balance as much as you can.
Life is meant to be enjoyable; the good news is that YOU get to choose what you want.
