Uncover Your Purpose

It’s easy for us to intertwine our self-worth with our jobs. After all, we spend so much time and energy devoted to our work. After a while, it might feel like our personality and sense of self are dissolving in our work personality.

How do you create an identity outside of your job? Start to explore the identity you desire to have and the core values that shape who you are. Then, reclaim work as a way to experiment and practice that identify as you continue to discover it. Your identity will be created through practice and patience.

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You’re not alone if you struggle to find enjoyment inside and outside of work. It’s a problem most of us face. We want to have content and fulfilling moments in life, but we have to work to feed our families and pay bills.

How do you enjoy life outside of work? First, stop trying to chase the time that feels like it’s escaping you. Then, you create boundaries that develop contentment and foster energy. You become more efficient with your time so you can be more content, not more productive.

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Motivation has always been a difficult thing for me to pin down. I’ve always enjoyed watching TED talks or browsing through r/getmotivated to gain just a splash of energy, but the surge never lasts long. In search of a method to gain motivation that held for a while, I stumbled upon Daniel Pink’s work on motivation…

How is motivation driven by your purpose? Lasting motivation is largely driven by a desire to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. When we find purpose in what we want to achieve, we become self-motivated instead of relying on people, money, status to energize us.

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I recently just started working in sales… and let me tell you: the attitudes and ideals in the sales world are drastically different that what I want to carry into the rest of my life. Without a grounded sense of who we are and where we’re headed, it’s easy to get lost in busyness, stress, and the stronger ideals of others.

Why do personal core values matter? Personal core values matter because they act like a compass for the direction we want our life to go. They allow us to dream the ideal life we want to live and to create real ways we can achieve it.

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This is a big misunderstanding about life purpose… whenever I talk with people about purpose, they feel like it’s one thing they have to figure out. But it’s not…

Can your life purpose change?

Your life purpose is constantly changing. As you learn more about yourself and the world around you, you naturally beginning feeling, reacting, thinking, and acting differently. And you gain feedback about what really matters to you and what being human is all about.

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We’re all chasing personal fulfillment. I know how easy it can be to try to find life fulfillment in things, status, and opportunity… so I’ve been searching for ways to find fulfillment within myself and I thought I’d share with you!

So, how do you find personal fulfillment? Finding personal fulfillment is a lifelong process of self-exploration. The first place to start is the recognition that personal fulfillment is never a destination. It’s about constantly searching for the ways we’re invited to a deeper experience in what it means to be human.

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I’m a highly reactive person.

So many people are… something happens in our life, and we immediately feel it.

And the most difficult part about feeling emotions strongly is the ensuing actions afterward. Anger, withdrawal, loneliness, angst.

If we can discover how we think, we can change what we think.

Once we learn the patterns that cause us to feel and act differently than we’d like, we can finally take ownership of the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Read more “How Your Emotions Are Made (And How To Change Them To Serve You Better)”