Breaking Free from the Shackles of Material Success

I was stuck.

I had, by most standard metrics, “it all”: Professional, financial, and materialistic success.

But I also had a success-sized hole eating away at me.

I wanted more out of life.

But I was stuck.

I wanted a sense of mission, meaning, and fulfillment because my career didn’t provide that.

I wanted to write, create, and innovate; I wanted to do something with my life that I would genuinely enjoy.

There were many reasons I didn’t move forward with my dreams, but I’m going to discuss this one specifically,

The twisted cocktail of guilt and unworthiness.

I was ridden with guilt for wanting more in the face of having so much.

Coupled with not feeling worthy of doing something meaningful and fulfilling.

“So many live with so little; how dare you want more?”

The fucked up thing was this:

I kept chasing materialism; my guilt didn’t stop that — it merely stopped me from creating something that would hopefully and ultimately give back to the world.

Fear wears many masks, two of which are guilt and unworthiness.