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The Most Important Question You Can Ask
Purpose, Spiritual Needs | COMMENTS | February 9, 2012
Why are you here? It's arguably life's most important question, but is it one you ask yourself?I recognize it's a question some people might view as self-indulgent, while others would see it primarily through a religious lens. But is there any part of an answer we could all agree on?I've found a very simple one for myself, and it's provided me in recent years with an increasingly powerful sense of clarity, inspiration and even joy. It's this: I'm here to add more value to the world than I'm using up.
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Tony Schwartz
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Finding Your Purpose
Purpose, Spiritual Needs | 1 COMMENTS | June 30, 2011
Recently, we’ve received several inquiries from people struggling with how to define their purpose. They explain that despite their strong desire and the time they’ve spent thinking about it, they find themselves still struggling. Ironically, it is often when we are not thinking that the deeper connections to the best parts of ourselves appear unbidden.
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Annie Perrin
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The Exhilarating Power of Purpose
Life Lessons, Purpose | 2 COMMENTS | January 31, 2011
I had just woken up in a hotel in San Jose, California, last week and I was brushing my teeth when I suddenly felt a powerful wave of something I can only describe as joy. Perhaps oddly, it was about my work. I love what I do, virtually every aspect of it. That amazes me, because what I do is run a business — a consulting business — which is something I never imagined myself doing. I'm a child of the 1960s. I grew up with an aversion to all conventional institutions — the government, the military, big unions and especially big businesses.
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Tony Schwartz
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