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We’re all seeking the perfect job or career path that will bring us happiness and fulfilment. But while we’re focused on achieving success, we can overlook the bigger stuff – and it’s possible that our current career trajectory might not take us there.
That’s why we need to find and then follow our North Star. Finding it starts with prioritising four fundamental needs: feeling fully human, deep connections, meaning and purpose, and growth and learning. By aligning our goals with these needs, we can find true fulfilment.
In this quick dip episode, Rachel outlines how we can understand what makes us feel alive, cultivate meaningful relationships and activities, and embrace continuous growth in all aspects of our lives.
If we carry on putting achievement ahead of our own needs – especially if we’re doing so to please someone else – we may end up feeling empty and unsatisfied.
But by tapping into those four fundamental needs, we’ll find ourselves on a path to a more fulfilling and balanced life.
Show links
More episodes of You Are Not a Frog:
- Defining Your Own Success in Life – Episode 107, with Dr Claire Kaye
- How to Escape the Tyranny of the ‘Shoulds’ – Episode 196, with Charlotte Housden
- How to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Life – Episode 94, with Dr Richard Pile
Download the episode’s podsheet. You can use it for reflection and to submit for your appraisal as part of your CPD.
Reasons to listen
- To discover the four fundamental needs for true fulfilment in life
- To learn practical steps to align your goals with these fundamental needs
- To understand the consequences of prioritising achievement over fundamental needs and how it can impact your well-being
Episode highlights
What are you aiming for?
The first core need: physical wellbeing
The second core need: Connection
The third core need: Meaning and purpose
The fourth core need: Learning and growth
The fifth element: A need to achieve
Your north star
Self-awareness
How do you need to live?
Don’t get pulled south
Episode transcript
[00:00:00] Rachel: Have you ever considered having some career coaching? That’s certainly what I did a few years back when I was so fed up with my job, I wasn’t enjoying it, and I was fixated on what job do I want? What should I do next? And a lot of us, when we are thinking about how to live a life in which we’re going to feel fulfilled and happy, we focus on what job so I need to do what career do I need to have in order to get there? And then we end up going to…
