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Insight and inspiration for flying higher in the difference only you can make from guests who have appeared on Creative on Purpose Live.

This week’s wisdom comes from a conversation with Jake Anderson, founder of Build with Jake.

Tune into the entire conversation here.

[JAKE] Pursuing excellence ...

Success is not the measure of your ability.

Neither is failure.

In my work as an encore life coach, I look past success AND failure.

Here’s why.

We conflate success with our ability to make good decisions.

We confuse failure with our inability to make good decisions.

But here’s the thing.

I c...

The journey to make a difference in the second half of life is fraught with contradictions.

The biggest one that I witness (and experience) is navigating grandiosity and insignificance.

Your life’s calling should be big, right?

It can certainly feel that way.

After all, we’re programmed to chase...

Insight and inspiration for flying higher in the difference only you can make from guests who have appeared on Creative on Purpose Live.

This week's wisdom comes from a conversation with Laurel Portié, everyone's favorite social media ad strategist. Tune into the entire conversation here.

[LAUREL]...

Seneca was a well-known (some would say “notorious”) businessman, political advisor, and writer who lived during Nero’s rule of the Roman empire.

He even served as an advisor to Nero before the emperor sentenced him to die by slitting his own wrists.

But that’s a story for another time.

What’s pe...

What are mistakes, really?

The etymology is clear.* The prefix mis- (meaning “badly” or “wrongly”), changes take (meaning “grasp”) to “grasp badly or wrongly.”

In other words, we didn’t get what we tried to grasp when we made a mistake.

But why do we conflate mistakes with failure?

That seems th...

Play your game all in and full out.

That’s my mantra.

But what does that mean (and where does it come from)?

I was assigned the Bhagavad Gita in a 7th-grade world religions class.

I loved the story but didn’t fully understand all the references.

For instance, I remember asking my teacher, “What...

Ever had your feelings hurt or been frustrated by something that was said or done to you?

Have you ever hurt someone else’s feelings or frustrated them because what you said or did was misunderstood?

Why is that?

There’s a gap between the intention of your thoughts, words, and deeds and the impac...

This is my 500th blog post.

Time to celebrate, right?

I’m not so sure.

When I began blogging, I didn’t define “success” by a specific number of posts (word count, readership numbers, etc.).

I began blogging to figure things out for myself and iterate and improve upon ideas that inspire intention...

Too many well-meaning difference-makers heed the gospel of grit and grind.

This is dangerous.

Following these false prophets only increases the likelihood of burnout or blowing yourself up.

If you’re working toward a worthwhile goal, some rigor is required.

But here’s what the preachers of hustl...

Increasing your peak performance frequency and consistency is a recipe for disaster.

Achieving a new “personal best” daily can only lead to burnout or blowing yourself up.

For instance, elite marathon runners don’t train by trying to beat their previous day’s time day after day. If they did, they’...