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Agi Keramidas 0:03
welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast helping you take the simple actions to master personal development and create the life you gain for. I'm your host Keramidas. My mission is simple to inspire you to take action towards a purpose, purposeful, and fulfilling life. Today I will discuss and reflect on the previous episode 298 with Bernie Borges. And the reason why I'm going to do this is because well, actually, there are two reasons. The first reason was that the episode was about fulfilment, and midlife. And I know that you can relate personally, with both of this most likely. The second reason that I'm doing a reflection on the previous episode is this. Bernie and I went us guests in each other's podcasts, and we both shared our appreciation about the other podcast, and we actually realised that our podcasts have a lot in common. So we decided to publish our episodes on the same day and I invite you to listen to my episode that Bernie's podcast midlife fulfilled when I open up and share my before fulfilment situation and my journey to after fulfilment. I have the feeling that if you enjoy personal development mastery podcast, you will also enjoy Bernie's made the life fulfilled podcast. So coming back to the topic of fulfilment in midlife, midlife is a term that is widely misunderstood. And I also until not so long ago, also made the same mistake. So with life is misunderstood us a midpoint in someone's life. But midlife is not a point or other. Rather, it is a season and a big realisation that happened for me during my conversation with Bernie in the previous episode of the podcast was those three phases of life that we are, we have youth, midlife and end of life and when defined the youth of our life as the period up to about usually around 30 plus or minus a few years where we are still growing up the responsibilities of life are not so many, we're still in the centre of our lifespan we are young. Then there is the second phase of life, which is the midlife which Bernie described it, US adulting. And that period of life, that phase of life, the midlife can last over the decade of 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s, maybe, or even 80s and beyond. And the last the third face of life is the end of life. And that happens when health declines and one's life is near, reaching near death. So the realisation for me was that midlife is not just the 40s midlife is a long season in one's life, and it can last for decades while one is active in their life.
One other thing we discussed with Bernie on the previous episode was that distinction between happiness and fulfilment, because many times people use them interchangeably. They talk about happiness, and they say fulfilment or they talk about fulfilment, and they say happiness.
Agi Keramidas 4:33
But they're not the same thing. And there is a very important distinction, differentiation and happiness is an emotion it could last a moment or it could last the period or it could last the season in in one's life. And it's generally connected to some x Journal event. fulfilment, on the other hand is a feeling in our soul, it is less tangible, it comes from within. And we discussed how one can be happy without necessarily being fulfilled, and also the other way around a very important differentiation between happiness and fulfilment, obviously, most of us seek both in our life, but we have to realise that they're not the same thing. One of the things that Bernie talked about, and I found very interesting was the happiness you curve. And he described us so you know, having a curve shaped like a un two on one end of the curve on the top, left side is when you're 18, until your happiness is at the maximum, and then the curve goes downwards, like a U, and it reaches a bottom point in the curve, which is around in the mid 40s. And then, happiness arises again, and we talked about two specific reasons why after that meet for this bottom point, then, happiness generally rises again afterwards. We also talked about self awareness and knowing our values, what's really important to us are set a path to self actualization.
And in the end of the episode, we talked about two things that you can do right now to start feeling more fulfilled. So if you're seeking greater fulfilment in your midlife season, this conversation is definitely one you won't want to miss.
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You know, sometimes you listen to a conversation that really stimulates you to think about your life in a different way. And if you are in your midlife season, and you would like to live a more fulfilled life, then listen to my conversation with Bernie on his podcast, midlife fulfilled. Until next time, stand out don't fit in
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