The Role of Inner Experience in Achieving Fulfillment
“Hard work pays off.” That’s the kind of mindset we usually have when we try to chase success and satisfaction which, unfortunately, hinders us from going deeper into how we’re feeling. Pushing through at all costs doesn’t work all the time.
The common belief is that hard work, dedication, and persistence are the keys to success. While these qualities are important, they are not the only factors that determine success. The quality of our inner experience is as important if not much more important than what we achieve and what we do in the outer world.
Most of us push through without taking the time to go deeper into how we are feeling. For a long time, I was able to work hard and achieve success without thinking about the inner experience that led to my motivation. However, as time went by, I realized that the quality of being is the most important part of what we’re able to do.
The shift happens when pushing through at all costs is no longer working. When the inner experience that we go through is not supporting our doing, we start to seek other sustainable ways to do more and achieve more, not just by putting in extra time and extra effort. The key is to improve our state of being, to improve the kind of feeling we feel on a regular and constant basis.
The big leverage we have is our quality of being. If we can improve and master our state of being in anything that we do, we can achieve more without exerting too much effort. There are people who are operating at 100x levels than we are, and it must not be because they’re putting in 100x of the time. On the other hand, there are people who are doing and operating at 100x levels lower than we are, and they’re not putting in 100x of the time. It’s not the time and effort we put in that’s the big part, but our quality of being.
The key in achieving success, more importantly in feeling fulfilled is improving our state of being. It’s not just about hard work, dedication, and persistence, but also about the quality of our inner experience. By focusing on improving our state of being, we can achieve success sustainably and in a fulfilling manner.
