You Don't Find Purpose - You Build It

About this episode

The episode discusses how purpose is built through personal effort rather than waiting for external motivation.

After a personal heartbreak in our lives, we find ourselves not particularly motivated to live forward with a meaningful purpose. Maybe we hope that "some thing" will show up and gives us new motivation to live with purpose. Usually, that's not the case. I am reminded of Andy's line to Red in "The Shawshank Redemption." Andy turned to Red and simply said, "Get busy living, or get busy dying." Now, that a bit extreme, but finding purpose and living forward require MOVEMENT on our part. Engagin...

People in this episode

Host: John Morrow

Topics covered

• purpose
• motivation
• personal growth
• self-improvement
• life choices

Keywords

• purpose
• motivation
• self-improvement
• personal growth
• life choices

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Shawshank Redemption

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