Workout: Meaningful Pursuits

Everybody wants meaning, but just not meaning. Lots of people have a meaningful life, but they don't feel alive or connected. Why pursuits? Humans need ambitions and goals. Humans need to engage in a process that they feel like matters. Humans need to help each other in a meaningful way. That's what you're all doing here. Sometimes when you're starting a new business or your new opportunity, what we all end up doing is we get in our own little brain, a little silo, and we're looking at the bank account or the product in the closet or the things we're thinking about, and we forget serving people. See, every one of you already has a meaningful life. You just haven't taught yourself to feel it yet. Let me say it again. Every one of you already has a meaningful life. You just haven't taught yourself to feel it yet. Or you don't feel it consistently enough. So you've told your brain, oh, well, when I'm diamond or when I'm this wealthy or when the kids are out of the house, Please, God. When you say something to yourself that then you'll feel like things are all right. You know that old saying, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. What if that's wrong? What if the destination is here now and the journey is here now, and they're not separate? What if the meaning is already right here? You don't have to go through a journey to get through the destination. What if you could give yourself some credit that you already made it? Babe, you're here. Good God, you survived. You've been through a lot of stuff, and you're here. Maybe the meaning is in this moment already. Maybe there's a reason that you're here in this audience next to the person you're next to right now, who you met the person next day, you worked out today. Maybe there's meaning in this moment, not the destination. Someday that you go through the journey. No, no, right now. The journey and the destination, they're the same thing. It's right now. It's right now. And you get to choose. Just like you get to choose aliveness. And you get to make those moments. You get to choose to feel meaning. Meaning. But you got to give yourself credit. Some of you are so hard, and so. I can't do this. I'm like, you had kids. I don't know if I can do this. I'm like, you birthed the child. What else? More. And they're. And there's. They. They like you. You did that. And you're worried that your neighbor might think you're funny because of you're asking them to do something? No, no, no. You don't give yourself credit. But see, we're already living meaningful lives if we're trying to get better. See? Is this true? Tell me if this is true or false. I would guess that meaning would come from three things. First is we feel like we're living a joyous and meaningful life if we're trying to live an energized and authentic and a fun life. Who's trying to do that here? Who's trying to live an energized, fun and authentic life? Okay, that's number one, right? Number one, great. There's meaning there. Number two, who loves your family and is trying to provide for them even more? No, think about it. Really feel it. Put your hand on your heart. Repeat with me, I love my family. I'd like to provide even more. I love my family. I'd like to provide even more. Now raise your hand if that is true. Isn't that meaningful enough? Does. Doesn't that count? Doesn't that mean you're on the right path? Third thing I think is true is that if we try to inspire or help other people, there's meaning in that, isn't there? Like waking up and thinking about others, People trying to help and inspire them. Isn't that something? Isn't that why we're all here? Isn't that what we rock together? Is this the reason we're here? To help and inspire people? Yes or no? Of course. Of course. Of course. But we lose the connection with those things. We forget to remind ourselves so we think meaning will exist out there. You're already living a meaningful life. You just have to remind yourself to feel it again. You have to give yourself credit again because you're somebody who wants to live a fun and authentic and energized life, and you're trying to do that. Good for you. You're somebody who loves your family and you want to ride more. Give yourself credit for that. You've come a long way. You're somebody who wants to help and inspire people, and you chose to do that. That's why you. You're already living a meaningful life. You already matter. Now please teach yourself to feel it again. You deserve it.

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Sam.