“ Success vs. Self Actualisation”

“Young and Confused, What Should I Choose? Success vs Self Actualisation”

                                                                                                           

For the most part we have all been indoctrinated to think that there are set stages, we must pass through in life. We are born to go to Primary/ Preparatory School, then on to an upstanding High School, then on to College/ University. After that we find a job in line with our career goals to help us afford a lifestyle which based on observation and further indoctrination we believe that it is necessary to achieve. The Dream Job. The Car. The House. The Family. These all help to make up “The Big Picture” and based on how much we earn and are able to spend, our level of success is determined by these societal constructs.

The dim reality, is in striving to achieve “success” we may never self-actualise, as we run around like headless chickens until we eventually collapse with no more to be achieved. So many are stuck in dead –end jobs that they simply do not enjoy, all in an effort to be in a position to pay back loans taken out to buy The House. The Car. Provide for families. For ex The children who have to go to certain Schools and have to have certain amenities in order for the parents to be deemed as being “successful”.

Whose dream are we living? Have you at any point 
sat down and thought about exactly what you are working for? Spending long hours toiling away doing work that is not fulfilling. What is it that you are here on earth to do? Surely it is not to work to pay the bills, rent/mortgage and then save enough money for retirement until you die.

I challenge you, the clock is ticking, time is something we can never get back.  Think outside of the box, many opportunities are there lying in wait for you to unearth them. Where you were last year, financially, educationally, mentally, and socially, you should not be there today. As we grow in our bodies, so should we grow in our output and achievements. Worldwide the top companies were started by persons who found a niche and manipulated it achieve their goals and achieve “success” in their way. Let us all strive to define “success” in our way, by using our minds to move forward and for us to be happy and content while we’re young. Let us self-actualise.

By: Kymberli Whittaker

     September 2013

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