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The Purpose Grounded LifePurposely Podcast Author: Jay Robinson
The Purpose-Grounded Life Podcast is part of the work of purposely.org, a non-profit organization that facilitates and coaches a peer group process that fosters ongoing renewal, life direction, and long term well-being. Purposely is for anyone who wants to cultivate the purpose-grounded life. We all need space to step back from the busy-ness and the constant striving so we can refocus, reflect, experience ongoing renewal, and discover new ways to move forward. When navigating uncertainty and difficulty, working harder is not always the answer. We also need to take a break and reflect not just on what we're doing but why we're doing it. We need new ways of moving forward. We foster the purpose-grounded life through an intentional process that cultivates our own sense of agency--our capacity to take actions that lead to desirable outcomes. All of us have this capacity for agency. The problem often is the gap between our good intentionsthe big goals we want to achieve, the dreams we have, the things we tell ourselves we want to doand our ability to actually be intentional. Purpose is about self-directiontaking charge of our own learning, taking charge of our long-term outcomes, taking charge of the changes we need to make to be the kind of person weve always imagined we would become. When we engage in this deeply reflective process of creative purpose and tap into who we are and the kind of person we want to become, new pathways of purpose emerge. Language: en Genres: Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-Improvement, Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Purpose is Emergent
Episode 4
Friday, 20 November, 2020
We're all on a quest to find our own direction in life. We're all asking the same kinds of questions about what we should be doing with our lives, but we want more than a job. We want to make a meaningful impact. We don't want to just make money. We want to make a difference. We want our lives to count for something. We want our work to matter. And that means that we are looking for purpose. It's not always clear what comes next. It's not always obvious how to get to where we want to be from where we are right now, especially when we don't even necessarily know where we want to be. But purpose is emergent. It grows over time as a by-product of our deepest values. The purpose grounded life is centered on cultivating this growth. This is a path focused less on goals to strive for and accomplishments to achieve and focused more on the kind of person that we want to become. And this means that purpose isn't something that we discover so much as we develop it. It doesn't hit us like a bolt of lightning where all of a sudden everything makes sense. Purpose emerges over time. We cultivate it. We develop it. It emerges as a product of our values. And that's not a one-time thing. This isn't a one-time something out there someplace that if I could reach for that, or if I could attain it, or strive for that thing out there some place, then my life would be successful. Purpose emerges as a by-product of our inward reflection of our inward work of who we are as a person. So purpose is about values.
