Confronting Inner Poverty Amidst Professional Peaks: A Journey to Wholeness

We may stand atop our professional mountain.

We may have checked all the boxes we think we need to check to be happy.

We may have what appears on the outside, “it all.”

But somethings off, somethings missing, we feel an inner poverty, and we don’t know what to do.

Often, we do the worst thing for us.

We dive deeper into what we know “works”; we overvalue our career and lifestyle to the detriment of the lacking areas of our lives.

We ignore the very things that are making us feel “off” because we’re afraid of them, coupled with the fact that we’re really good at our career and lifestyle.

We focus on what’s easier, sacrificing what’s meaningful.

It requires awareness and courage to examine the empty buckets in our lives, but it doesn’t take a lot to fill them.

The first and easiest step is identifying them because we can’t manage what we can’t see.

Then, we must identify why that bucket matters to us.

Then, we must take the first step toward filling it.

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