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The more we live outside of our true selves the more we disintegrate.

Ikigai represents your unique expression in every aspect of your life; gifts, passions, interests, skills, and place to impact the world.

When you're spending your time doing what only you can uniquely do, you're becoming the best 'you' that you can be.

The great thing about Ikigai, once it becomes clear to you, it becomes the core expression of your essence in all your doing and being.

It's like a North Star guide, and it's this incredible opportunity for things to just sort of fall into place.

You naturally reframe your focus and energy, and doors begin to open for you that you didn't even know existed.

We talked about our authentic selves, and that word has gotten watered down. I refer to more of your essence, that deep down true essence.

Why is it important to live into your Ikigai?

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Suppose you think of Ikigai as an integrated self when your true essence and purpose are in harmony with all that you do.

It's not integrity in an honesty sense, it's integrity in the sense of being an integrated being. The more we live outside of our true selves the more we disintegrate.

People worry so much if they are in the 'right' job.

It doesn't matter so much what the job is, the type, or the industry. It's more about integrity.

When you're working in a job, that does not allow you to be the real you, living out your essence, you're disintegrating a bit when you're doing that.

It might be the environment, the place that you're working, the types of things you're doing, or the persona you must present to be accepted and successful there.

That's the kind of thing that you can do wrong if you will. It's wrong only in the sense of not living into your Ikigai.

Again, it is not so much the tasks or the type of work or that kind of thing.

Instead, the important thing is the ability to live out your authentic self and in the fullness of what you feel is your purpose.

Ikigai is about experiencing your essence and purpose in harmony with whatever you do.

🌀 Reflection:

🌱 Integrity is from Latin integritatem (nominative integritas) "soundness, wholeness, completeness.'“

🌱Disintegrate means destruction of the cohesion of constituent parts and traces the root from the Latin dissipate an "act of wasting by misuse, wasteful expenditure or consumption."

When have you felt integrated? Sound, whole, complete?

When have you felt disintegrated? Like your life or gifts were wasting away, misused, consumed?

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