Purpose isn't something you discover once and keep forever. It shifts as you move through different roles—student, athlete, teacher, musician, husband, father. Purpose grows when you do meaningful work for people you care about, not from searching for it.
Simon Says that purpose is something that's inside you. It's, it's fully formed by the time you're in your early 20s and you need to find it and then you can exploit it out in the world. And what I found for myself was that my sense of purpose has changed many times over. I was a student, I was an athlete, then I was a school teacher for a short time. I became a musician. That was something that gave me a lot of meaning and significance in my life. Became a husband and a father, and now I'm doing this other thing. And so purpose has been an evolving and emerging thing, and it's taken on a lot of different forms, but functionally, I've always been doing something that is related to making a difference, helping, doing work that matters with and for people I care about, helping other people get clear about and closer to what they want. And that idea that, you know, either purpose is something in you that you have to excavate or something that's out there that you have to go on some sort of spiritual journey to find can be really daunting to folks. But what I'm hearing and what you're saying is purpose can come from just waking up in the morning and doing the work that's right in front of you with as much purpose and passion as you can bring to it. And by bringing purpose and passion to the things that you're doing, more purpose emerges, more purpose is cultivated, and you can do things more more and more purposefully get clear about the things that, that are going to light you up.
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