Personal Fulfillment

Welcome everyone, and I thank you so much for taking this time to tune in to listen to the Fulfillment Zone podcast. I’m Maura Smith, creator of thefulfillmentzone.com This is a new series, and we’re going to start investigating the top 10 roadblocks to living a fulfilled life. Today we’ll look at what personal fulfillment really is, and reveal the common roadblocks to experiencing it. Have you ever noticed that people spend much of their time striving for something but underneath it all they feel unfulfilled? Or is it just my imagination? Lately I’ve been examining why this happens in so many cases. According to the famous philosopher Plato, one of the problems is that we seldom take the time to think carefully about our lives and how to live them. Instead, we just go along with popular opinion. As I was writing this, I was gazing into my fish tank and seeing schools of fish exhibiting the same mass behavior: just following the crowd. So what really is personal fulfillment? According to the Oxford Dicti