I've noticed there are two kinds of people: the ones who pick the mountain, and the ones who build the trail. I'm a trail builder, give me someone else's impossible goal and I'll find the path, but ask me to pick one mountain and I'll stand at the trailhead for a year.
Took me way too long to realize that's not a bug. You nailed it in this post - stop hunting for the purpose, start noticing what actually lights you up. Would've saved me a few existential spirals.
P.S. Now I need to try that churro at Vato after the Brooklyn half-marathon
I feel like I have a life purpose, and that is to create ripples of confidence among people with a higher level of consciousness and abundance mindset so that our species can save itself. It inspires me.
That said, I think the tension is that when meaning and purpose don’t emerge naturally, the search for it can have a negative effect. So the dance I work with my clients is to uncover the purpose if it is there, and otherwise to focus on a vision of life without this outward purpose having emerged yet.
I've noticed there are two kinds of people: the ones who pick the mountain, and the ones who build the trail. I'm a trail builder, give me someone else's impossible goal and I'll find the path, but ask me to pick one mountain and I'll stand at the trailhead for a year.
Took me way too long to realize that's not a bug. You nailed it in this post - stop hunting for the purpose, start noticing what actually lights you up. Would've saved me a few existential spirals.
P.S. Now I need to try that churro at Vato after the Brooklyn half-marathon
Love the concept of mountain vs trail. Thank u for sharing! And yes the churro is a non negotiable half marathon reward.
I feel like I have a life purpose, and that is to create ripples of confidence among people with a higher level of consciousness and abundance mindset so that our species can save itself. It inspires me.
That said, I think the tension is that when meaning and purpose don’t emerge naturally, the search for it can have a negative effect. So the dance I work with my clients is to uncover the purpose if it is there, and otherwise to focus on a vision of life without this outward purpose having emerged yet.
I know some people who have one life Purpose and others who have a portfolio of Purposes. I think it’s ok to have many.
Regarding having fun at work - I think it’s really the only way. +1 on that.
The fact that you've never watched Mad Men...
Agree. Come on!