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Insight and Inspiration for Living Your Legacy
Making progress in endeavors that make a difference is fraught. You must navigate your fears, biases, and self-sabotaging tendencies. You’re fighting against the compliance and competition you were groomed for by systematized schooling and institutionalized occupation. Then there’s social media's di...
How to get what you really want in life.
Step 1: Know what you really want in life.
This is harder than it sounds.
You have to understand that what you think you really want (more money, time, and respect) isn’t really what you want.
What you really want is whatever more money, time, and respect will ...
What do you want in life? More money? More time? More recognition?
These are the wrong answers. Here's why.
Money, time, and recognition are side effects of, not reasons for, doing meaningful work—work that aligns with the difference only you can make.
What's the difference only you can make?
It...
The art of living—what does that mean to you?*
What it means to live well and how one does it are central preoccupations of most ancient philosophical and spiritual disciplines.
Despite the lack of a definitive answer, we don't talk much about the art of living well these days. Why is that?
I...
For those who seek to make a difference, purpose is crucial.
And yet...
It is a term that is often confused or conflated with other ideas like vision, mission, or goal. I teased apart the difference between purpose and passion already. Here's my current attempt to do the same with these other term...
Purpose and passion are terms that are often conflated and used interchangeably.
That is unhealthy and dangerous.
Here are five distinctions I make in my work helping others define the difference only they can make (AKA "their purpose") and living more passionately.
- Purpose is your reason for b...
The art of living is the central concern of most ancient philosophical and spiritual traditions.Â
And yet, we rarely discuss how to live a good life in our educational and occupational institutions.
Why is that?
I honestly don’t know. Yet, these questions have been my life’s most consistent preoc...
The local high school prom was last weekend here in Floyd, VA. That means commencement season is right around the corner.
Commencement is a fascinating word. It’s the day and ceremony marking the end of an academic journey, celebrated with speeches, awards, and certificates, and it is the day that ...
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 with a twist. This insight from a conversation I had with Meridith Grundei and Joseph Bennett on their outstanding podcast, Are You Waiti...
Do you know your life’s purpose?
If you answered, “No,” you’re not alone...
According to recent polls, only 25% of people in the United States have a clear sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.
57% are searching for greater purpose and meaning.
Purpose is how we build identity and forge m...
Purpose is an evolving thing.
Just as you are a work in progress, the difference only you can make is something that is refined and iterated over time.
Here are 3 questions you can ask yourself daily to help you clarify and stay in your purpose and decide your next small, bold steps into possibili...
Why is purpose (AKA “the difference only you can make”) so elusive? A big part of the challenge is the misconceptions about where purpose resides.
Maybe you’ve been told that your purpose is “out there,” and you need to go find it. Or perhaps you were told it’s “inside,” and you need to excavate it...
