Finding Your Passion and Purpose
While many of us set new goals and resolutions at the beginning of a new year, according to research, roughly half of those resolutions are abandoned by mid-January. One reason this happens is that people often make resolutions based on what they feel like they should want, rather than what they actually do want. In other words, their goals and resolutions aren’t really in alignment with their purpose, which in turn happens because people don’t know what their purpose is.
Today on Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I discuss how we can identify and pursue our purpose, and why it’s so valuable to have one in the first place. We explore what questions and strategies can help us develop clarity on what we find meaningful, what our core values are, and how we’d like to spend a big chunk of our time.
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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
3:00: Why spend time discussing how to have a purpose?
11:00: Nonverbal ways to establish yourself in your purpose
12:50: Ways to be flexible that make purpose accessible
17:45: Fresh starts help us retain freedom in the present
21:20: How to listen to yourself when unclear what you want
26:05: Getting feedback from others and abandoning doomed pursuits
32:10: Moving past the inner critic and fear of letting others down
38:10: Five questions to ask yourself
48:15: Soul work and sacredness
50:30: Doing what works to look at things differently
54:10: Recap
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