Dave Evans

I'm just not being fulfilled.

And for most people, fulfillment means, am I getting to manifest the fullness of who I really am?

Because that's what Maslow told them fulfillment was in the original 1943 paper that invented the hierarchy of needs, according to Abraham Maslow.

The apex was self-actualization.

And you attain self-actualization by literally becoming all that one can be.

And if you become all that one can be, according to Maslow, you will experience fulfillment.

And we think that's dead wrong because we've known for a long time in the Life Design Lab that all of us contain far more aliveness than one lifetime permits us to live out.

There's more than one of you in there.

That's the good news.

So if you've decided you have to be all that you are and all that you are won't even fit in one lifetime,

And if I haven't fully manifested everything that I could possibly be, then my life is unfulfilling.

I just have decided to have a policy that I have to be despondent for the rest of my life.

That's a bad choice.

So both the people who are stuck on impact is the only way meaning really deserves to work, or I have to be entirely manifested to be fulfilled.

Both those people are set up on dead ends, and we'd like to give them a better idea.

What's the better idea?

But our idea is, you know, so the reframe on impact is, you know, if you put all your meaning eggs in the impact basket, impact's a good thing.

I've worked hard at making an impact.

You're working on an impact.

It's not worthless by any means, but it's also largely out of our control because some of the other 8 billion people might go off script when you're not looking.