Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is finding your life's purpose. After my episode 91 on time to give up on your dreams,

several listeners wrote in all asking the same thing. The show I need, they wrote, is on

what do I want to do with my life? I've lost track of that 50,000 foot level. People want to know

how to find that life purpose. I saw the Broadway musical Avenue Q last month. In it, the puppet

Princeton is searching for his life purpose. He believes a purpose will give him meaning and direction.

Friends, I was once that puppet.

I wanted a life purpose.

As a teenager, I thought I'd found it.

It involved computers and knowing the format of a TCPIP protocol header packet by heart.

Yeah, I know, I was 16.

To make a long story very short,

I was mistaken, and I still haven't found anything with the same certainty that I felt that.

Perhaps my certainty came from being 16, not from a real sense of purpose. Hormones can do

strange things to teenage boys. About five years ago, I reviewed my life, and I discovered

the most meaningful events were all serendipity. My grand plans had never worked out, but the

unexpected yowses have given me a lot. Direction, at least in retrospect, meaning, fulfillment,

and great friends. These days, I've mellowed about

life purpose. Instead, I go straight for the things that a life purpose was supposed to give me.

I ask, what will be a meaningful, fulfilling thing to do next that will put me around the kind of people

I like having as friends? And now I get to agonize over not having an

answer to this question, as well as not having an answer to the life purpose question.

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