A person with a successful manufacturing business had wealth and a beautiful wife but felt empty because his work had no purpose. The longer you build something without meaning, the harder it becomes to pivot toward work that matters. Early confusion about your direction might be your biggest advantage.
What's also kind of a powerful thing for people that are kind of early on in life, early on in their career, the truth of the matter is like, if you don't find your purpose, you could still create income and business. And the further down that path you go, the harder it is to get out of it and then find your purpose. You know, people want to make money. That's what they think they need to do. But once you build a business and you have 100 employees and you have all these responsibilities, if you find your purpose, then good luck trying to back your way out of everything you're doing and get there. It's like if you're early on, it's actually kind of a blessing.
That's my story, by the way. You really think when I'm running the manufacturing plant and I'm drinking and I'm drugging and I got the cars and I got the house and I got the gorgeous wife, the whole illusion. You really think I thought my purpose was gonna be helping people with this? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? No.
Right.
No, of course not. Even close. But I do remember going to bed every night being so empty, just thinking like, is this gonna be the rest of my life? Am I a lace manufacturer? Am I gonna be 50 or 60 sitting with the next heir apparent of Victoria's Secrets? Just talking about yarns and dye colors and fabrics and, you know, things that never excited me from within.
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