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Figure out Your North Star! | Eric Thomas

20 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational talk, Dara Akbar Ladjevardian urges listeners to discover their personal "North Star"—a core purpose that energizes and guides daily life. He emphasizes that having a clear purpose not only fuels individual joy and motivation but also strengthens relationships, as loved ones can support each other's missions. Ladjevardian stresses that the North Star must be uniquely yours, something that excites you at any hour of the day, and warns against merely following someone else’s path. He concludes with a call to act on the purpose you feel you were put on earth to fulfill, and to enjoy life when you’re not actively pursuing it.

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Figure out your North Star and wake up every single day going after your North Star. Because when you have a North Star and the people that you love and you spend time with have a North Star, have a purpose. And look, their purpose might be we both have people whose purpose is to help us with our purpose. Yes. They don't necessarily have an individual purpose. Like they were called to help us. We serve our mission. That's it. So we need a North Star so they can know what that North Star is. Yeah. You have to find a thing that wakes you up at three o'clock or six o'clock or 10 o'clock. Like you gotta find a thing that brings the life out of you, the joy out of you, the happiness out of you. And you can't do that following somebody else's north star. So my last one will be, man, figure out what you was put on this earth to do. And I mean every single chance you have to do it. Do it. And when you're not doing it, enjoy your life.