Accomplishing

I'm prompted by Blue Bear's post about sleeping her life away, to ask for input about conflict I often experience. I have read so much about how we as souls are not expected to accomplish - that we are perfect in just being. I do believe this is true!

I cannot get past such an intense need within myself to contribute something special to the world. I have no special talents or gifts to offer the world and this fact haunts me, day in and day out. Also, when I find myself in a state of just being, I feel so guilty about not accomplishing something. This is true not only in my spiritual life, but in my life as a wife, mother, daughter and employee, etc.

I've read so often that the need to accomplish is ego-based thinking. I don't think I'm alone in this, but how does one reconcile the desire to be needed or of service to others, with the notion that it's the ego or an illusion that makes us feel this way?