Purpose 101

So how can we be present to and intervene meaningfully in the world’s greatest challenges without getting swept away by them?

You don’t need to save the world. Simply tending to our own lives and making authentic human connections is usually the most impactful thing we can ever do.

If you lack purpose, don’t go searching for it. Simply start removing all the non-essentials cluttering up your life until whatever is most essential reveals itself.

Everyone has an important role to play in the ecosystem of change. But no one can play them all. 

Purpose has absolutely nothing to do with being the hero. It has nothing to do with being great. It has nothing to do with being a success.

If your purpose work is not helping you feel alive, inspired, and fulfilled in the here and now, it’s not really purpose.

Outer purpose is how our purpose work connects and commits us to the world around us. Inner purpose is how our purpose work connects and commits us to the callings that bring us most alive.

To be a purpose-driven leader is not to forsake profit. It’s to use profit to serve the greater good. It’s to continuously fill your own cup and to share generously from it.

Through purpose, you not only cultivate lasting meaning and fulfillment but a deep sense of peace that can sustain you through the darkest, most turbulent times.