25: The 5 Biggest Obstacles You’ll Face in Living Your Purpose
45 minutes down a Twitter wormhole, I had a revelation: I can spend my time doing whatever I want, and the only thing it’ll really affect is how I experience my time.
What started as answering a crossword puzzle prompt--it was NBA’s Hall of Fame Coach Pat Riley, by the way--quickly pivoted to, “Whatever happened to my favorite TV news anchor Pat Miles?” Which then prompted me to wonder, “How’s her eyesight these days?” Which then morphed into, “Where is Paul Magers?” He’s another beloved former news anchor here in Minneapolis Saint Paul. Which then led to, “Hmmm...I want to learn more about his decision to get sober.” Which then moved into, “Let me scroll through his Twitter feed ‘cuz he’s hilarious.” And by then I realized I’d spent nearly an hour pinging back and forth between various apps and sites.
I’m in the business of helping people live what matters most. And there’s, maaaybe, a certain irony in spending so much of my time sniffing out random Twitter inquiries. On the other hand, when so many of us are trying to find a way to matter, we’ve lost the plot because we’re already fulfilling our purpose in life simply by being alive. We don’t have to be better or give more.
So often, though, we’re living in search--trying to find our purpose. If you listened to episode 18, where I shout “Stop Trying to Find Your Purpose,” though, you might already know this is futile.
Here’s why: most of us have no idea what the point of our existence is, but we’re pretty sure we’re doing it wrong.
Enter: self-flagellation.
This shows up in allllll kinds of ways, 5 of which we uncover in episode 25 of Bullshift.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
The 5 biggest obstacles you’ll face in living your purpose
How to unlock your purpose **NOT** find your purpose
Details on The Career to Calling Accelerator
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In this episode, Meghan discusses the questions we tend to ask ourselves as we approach the new calendar year. She explains that these are the questions for which purpose is the answer. Who we are today is not the same as who we were yesterday and who we’ll be tomorrow. Yet, paradoxically, we are exactly the same person we were yesterday and will be tomorrow. This is one of a few key paradoxes of purpose that Meghan explores in this episode. Sit back, enjoy the holiday feels, and join Meghan as she gives us a preview of where we’re going with Bullshift in 2022!