17 Dec 2025 · 0 min
Brian Johnson reads two Kierkegaard quotes about finding your purpose and gifts. God gives each person marching orders, and the challenge is to identify yours and act on them today.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. In our last plus one, we had fun soaking our minds in some epic to dare or not to dare wisdom. We kick that party off with a Soren Kierkegaard gem. This one. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. So how's your daring going? Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Thank you, Wikipedia. He was also the purveyor of other epically quotable wisdom gems, including this one. God has given each of us our marching orders. Our purpose on earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts, and that's today's plus one. God has given each of us our marching orders. Will, what are yours? Let's know that our purpose here on Earth and why we do all we do together optimizing is to find those orders and carry them out. So what are your special gifts? How are you? And will you give them to the world one more time? What are your marching orders? Let's find them and follow them today.
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