If you’re thriving, you’re approaching your personal and professional tasks with a feeling of “YES!” – you’re at your best, you’re invested, engaged and interested in what you’re doing. You’re working on a set of goals that give your life purpose and meaning. Or maybe you’re involved in work that helps others and gives you the juice of life. Or perhaps you’ve created a work/life balance that gives space for opportunity, learning, curiosity, creativity and fearlessness. When you’re thriving, you’re awesome!
Surviving, on the other hand, has you doing all the things you need to do – and probably more – but the joy, the excitement, the charge you used to get from doing those things just isn’t there the way it used to be. You’re getting it done, no question; but your thriving has turned into drowning in too many responsibilities, too many people to answer to, and you are often left wondering, “Why am I doing this?”