How to Expand Beyond Preservation for True Fulfillment

As we enter our second half, it’s common for people to constantly fear losing what they have (job/money/lifestyle/relationship/etc).

Their lives become a matter of preservation.

Their decisions, choices, and actions aim to preserve the past by trying to preserve the image and story they’ve projected in their minds.

“Life was great when…”

We operate out of fear when our lives become a matter of preservation.

Every life hiccup threatens what we know, and we become less and less willing to experience anything new because it may threaten homeostasis.

We degrade the quality of our lives.

We find ourselves at a crossroads because it’s also about this time that we feel a gravitational pull toward cultivating lives of meaning and fulfillment.

Meaningful and fulfilling lives will never be born from a state of fear and preservation.

Meaningful and fulfilling lives are the antithesis of preservation; they’re an act of expansion.

One of the best ways I know to cultivate expansion is to stop buying fear at face value and examine and dissect it.