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Contribution works both ways, both in the giving and the receiving. If the significant other in your relationship is consistently unable to contribute, emotionally,
physically, spiritually, mentally or financially, you will feel unfulfilled and unhappy. If YOUR contribution is unappreciated, again you will feel unhappy and
even resentful. In your career, if it fails to satisfy your needs, it is failing to contribute to your wellbeing and you will feel dissatisfied and unfulfilled.

Anything that fails to contribute in life, to the degree that it provides the satisfactory meeting of your needs, is eventually replaced by something or someone
that will.

Roles and areas

Having explored our basic human needs, we will now turn to how those needs fit into the roles we occupy within the specific areas of our lives.

Roles

Our roles are the relationships and the responsibilities we have in life. Very few people go through life without other people, family, friends, associates,
colleagues, business contacts, customers and others. The relationships and responsibilities we have in those contacts with others are the roles we occupy in life.

There are roles that all of us must fill whether we want to or not, such as daughter, son, mother, father, sister, member of the human race. Other roles form a
much larger group that we occupy from choice, and because of circumstances and experiences life has presented us, such as spouse, partner, boyfriend,
girlfriend.

There are many other roles you might occupy. Think about your roles in life, here are a few examples to get you started :

Parent Friend Son or daughter Colleague Domestic Accountant Listener
Spouse Sister or Brother Grandparent Mentor Performer Taxi driver!
Partner Learner Home Manager Coach Caregiver
Professional Employer Employee Manager Peacemaker
Nurturer Volunteer Teacher Provider Motivator

It is important to remember that you bring your own unique brand of life and personality to each of the roles you fulfil. You are one of a kind, there
is no-one exactly the same as you on this planet, there never was and there never will be.
Understanding your own uniqueness is an important step in the process of discovering who you really are, identifying and doing something about
what matters most to you and makes you really happy. In addition to the more obvious ones, there is a broad range of roles covering the various activities
you are engaged in life, the work you do, the interests and abilities you have. Identifying each and every one of your roles and what they bring to your life is
an important part of your internal discovery process. Some of the roles we occupy are obligatory, some of them we have created for ourselves. Page59
Some of them will fulfil us, others may drain us.