In Search for Purpose: Have You Found Yours?

Issue #14 🧩 Living without purpose 🧩 Why we outsource our purpose and what that costs us 🧩 How to find our purpose 🧩 How to align our business with our purpose

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Have you ever felt disconnected from the world around you?

Like, everyone seems to be able to read between the lines, except you. Everyone somehow aligns to the same beat of the drums, except you. Everyone has things going on in their lives, except you. Everyone is happy with what they’ve achieved - and keep achieving - except you.

If the answer is “yes”, you’re not alone. There’s a reason for this, and there’s also a fix.

Keep reading 👇

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😑 Life Without Purpose

Imagine this:

You wake up in the morning and you feel dead. You’re more tired than when you went to bed last night. Nothing excites you anymore. If it weren't for work (responsibilities, chores, etc. - feel free to substitute with your regular poison), there wouldn't be any point in getting out of bed at all. You feel absolutely lost in this world: you don’t know what you want to do, whether you have the strength to do it, or why this is even happening to you. And what this is, to begin with.

Then there is work - the necessary evil. The place where someone else tells you what to do, how to do it, who to interact with, how to think and behave, what your career choices are, what your areas of development should be, where and when you need to be physically, and what time you need to spend working (which is quite significant), away from everything and everyone else in this world. Everything and everyone that might potentially excite you.

You take a look around and you only see zombies. Everyone is in an endless cycle of work and watching movies, playing computer games, eating junk food, you name it - literally any activity that has the potential to give a minimum amount of short-term satisfaction. You're afraid to look inward because you can already feel your soul silently screaming and squirming. It's better to just keep running in circles in an attempt to avoid the inevitable.

Does this sound familiar?

Some would say we traded our time for money - and time is the most valuable asset we have in this world. Others would say we sold our freedom for security. Or our health. Or our souls.

I’d say we outsourced our purpose. Why bother searching for our own purpose in life, when we can get paid to contribute to someone else’s? Does it even matter if that someone else shares our moral principles, our values, or let alone is aligned with our purpose?

As it turns out, yes, it does matter. Here's why:

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🛟 Taking the Easy Way Out

The theory: