Stop trying to find your purpose
We spend so much time searching.
Searching for The One, The Job, The House, The Car, The Experience, The Feeling, The Plan, The Salary, The Product, The Idea, The Connector, The Client, The Bargain, The Title, The Brand…
We’re looking for answers, assuming that once we find That Thing, the result we want will magically appear (happiness, success, love, fortune, fame, ease, contentment).
What if you stopped looking.
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More...#$*!% = QUIT
Quitting has become a dirty word, associated with failure and weakness.
Anyone who has experienced any measure of success knows that quitting is par for the course. A few dinners have opened with folks talking about their failures. Really talented, accomplished individuals getting honest about places they screwed up, projects that were complete disasters, even relationships that weren’t right.
I’m not sure quitting and failing is something that needs to be hidden. Your story…
More...What if the goal was to fail?
What if your goal was to experience rejection, to quit?
What if you set out trying to find twenty new ways of getting shot down, of hearing “No, thanks” at least fifteen times in one day?
What if your aim wasn’t to wildly succeed or sell the most product or to get everyone to like you?
What if you turned the graph upside down and thought of creative ways to beat everyone to…
More...Want to hack your life? Write.
Few entrepreneurs and business leaders have developed a consistent writing practice. This surprises me. You won’t easily find an artist without a pen and notebook filled with scribbles. In case you hadn’t noticed, art and entrepreneurship are tightly bound.
Write. It doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t have to be coherent. Thoughts, observations, experiences, reactions, fleeting ideas, failures. Even five minutes each day can yield tremendous results.
You’re offering yourself a…
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