{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F27d978dd-9fa2-4e20-b1a0-0ab44c22aebc","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"UWR 042 How to live your purpose\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/27d978dd-9fa2-4e20-b1a0-0ab44c22aebc\"></iframe>","title":"UWR 042 How to live your purpose","description":"In today's episode, I'm speaking about how to live your purpose. Let's dive in.<br />\n<br />\nWe hear it all the time, live your purpose. We are desperate to discover the one thing that will light us up and motivate us to work hard and spread our passion to millions. We spend time looking for it in books for some people they're looking for it in church or in a course after course, in meditation. But our purpose, seems to be elusive. I know this because I spent years chasing it too. Purpose is defined as the reason why something exists. Your purpose is the reason why you exist. Your brain immediately tells you that you don't know why and that you'd better figure it out or it will all be wasted.<br />\n<br />\nYour brain tells you that it had better be good. It had better help the planet or those who are less fortunate, it had better matter so you can justify your existence. We look to others for inspiration. Look at Mother Teresa who obviously had a purpose. Her life obviously mattered. And then we start spiralling into guilt because we're pretty sure that she didn't drink wine the Saturday nights or secretly by a sharing bag of chocolate buttons and eat them all herself. We're pretty sure that we are failing at living a purposeful life. We have no idea what the point of our existence is, but we're pretty sure that we're doing it wrong. We like the idea of saving the world, but we're exhausted from raising kids and doing the laundry and running a business. We better just keep looking for that perfect flavour of purpose that will make it all effortless.<br />\n<br />\nAnd so we keep searching and we never find the answer. Wait, that is not entirely true. We find our purpose a few times, like when we had our children or worked with that one client, we thought was it. But it wasn't. The unicorns didn't prance around and life didn't become effortless. That for sure wasn't it. Back to searching. What is your purpose? I'm going to tell you, are you ready? Your reason for existing is to exist. That is your purpose. You don't have to do anything to fulfil your purpose in life. Your life is purpose. You are a result, a product. You are an evolved human being and being alive is enough. Being alive is enough. You are already enough and completely complete. You don't have to be better, give more or save the planet. Your purpose is humanness. No one is taking notes to see if you did it right.<br />\n<br />\nNo one is judging you to see if you are good enough. No one is about to give you a grade on how you are doing. That's your job. You are the only one whose opinion matters. Whatever relationship you have with the spirit within you, no matter what you call it, that's the only purpose that is. And that purpose, I'm here to tell you, has already been fulfilled. You are done. You are complete. You are already purposeful. You are already awesome because not because of anything you did or didn't do, but just because you were born and you're here and you are a 100% lovable. You have already arrived so stop trying to arrive at a place where you will prove that you are good enough. Relax. You are already completely good enough. There is nothing you can be do or have to be more purposeful or complete. Your life will never be more valuable than someone else's.<br />\n<br />\nSo now what? So now you know the secret to life. You don't have to be, to do it better or smarter or more lovingly, unless of course you want to. But the reason to want to is not what you think. It won't make you better in the eyes of some external watcher. You're already as better as you can be. It won't earn you a treasure or a prize that will make everything make sense. But what it will do is make your experience on the planet way more fun. You see, you can spend your life sitting on the couch watching Netflix or you can build a school in Africa. You'll still be a perfect human, but your experience of the world will be different while you're here.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0d9843f1-6363-4254-aad1-2337b1e549a5/podcast-cover-art.jpg"}