Finding Purpose vs. Creating Purpose

Part of the problem is people really think purpose has to be what I call big P purpose. What I mean by big P purpose is you have to change the world or you have to do something outlandish like make a billion dollars or you have to cure cancer. And so all of those things are so difficult. And a lot of times we don't even feel agency to get to those places. So it makes us feel real anxious. What I tell people is, what about little P purpose? And what that is are the things we just enjoy doing regardless of the goal, what feels fulfilling for us in the moment. Strangely enough, I don't really think you find purpose. I think you create it. But you do have to figure out what some of these anchors are for you. Anchors don't have to be that big. The question is, what lights you up? Time is so precious. We can't control it, we can't buy it, we can't trade for it. It passes no matter what we do. So how can we start kind of filling those time periods we have with much more enjoyable stuff?