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How to live with purpose if you don’t know what you’re doing
How I stay focused every day
*Author’s note: this was written in 2017.
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I were to ask you to define your purpose in one sentence, could you?
Well done if you can. You are in the minority.
Most of us understand that living a fulfilled life requires this mysterious quality of having purpose.
I think the concept is confusing to most people. I never really understood it. I got it, but I didn’t.
I knew that it meant having a reason to live; something that drove me to live enthusiastically.
I knew that ‘purpose’ was a motivator that was supposed to go beyond life’s simple pleasures, like eating a cream-filled doughnut or a cheeky nap in the park.
Was that even true?
Being self-employed, staying driven is something I think about every day. It feels precarious to have no one tell me what to do next.
I could never figure out how to define what purpose is. If I captured the idea in a motivating sentence, this…
