Unlock Your True Purpose: What’s the Difference Between a Job & a Life-Changing Movement? #leader

But let me describe a movement. The definition I have for movement is that it defines and shapes a new way of living and relating. A new way of living and relating. If you dig into your life mission, and I know that's a work in progress for all of us, but part of it is like, that's where that life mission is. It's more than, this is what I get up and do as a job every day. It's really like, what's the mission in that job? I just read a post today from somebody in our Wisdom Council, and she said, you know, I, I think it's really important to drive value in the world. I think that's— and with the people. And so I responded saying, that's what stewardship is. In a sense, stewardship is leading people and places better than how you found them. And that's kind of a statement of— that's a value, but it's also kind of our life mission. It's like we want to leave a place better than how we found the place and the people and the things around us. So that's how I look at a movement. So I'm asking the question, how's a movement different than a job or a project? What do you think? Just open it up a little for conversation. How's a movement different than a job or a project? Yeah, I, I love that. So part of me says too, what you're talking about, Paul, it's like this Venn diagram, you know, projects or job and movement may be very aligned and overlapping a lot, and sometimes it's not. I, I think when they're not, like when it's a null set between the two of them, that's when we go, I need a new job, because, because the movement isn't, isn't— I don't feel life in this thing. But even if it's overlapped by just 10%, 15%, we're like, okay, there's some— there's— this isn't it. But I feel like I'm doing something every day. And that's how I looked at my career at Accenture for 20 and a half years, is that I kind of, I talk about that as a Trojan horse, is the, the work itself was great and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, the fact that, you know, we're talking together says, well, you know, I was kind of doing my mission on every project in some way. Mm-hmm. Even if it's not the, the purpose isn't, you know, my purpose isn't to put revenue or margin in the coffers of my clients or Accenture, but it was investing in the people like you guys. So, so that's how I kind of look at it too. There's, there's that part of life mission that we should try to like find it wherever we're going. If it's a null set, then it's like, okay, it's time to do something different. Cool. All right, so let me ask you this: what is your movement? Take 30 seconds and just think about like, what is your movement? And we're going to ask you to say it out loud because I think it's important to state them.