259: Dealing With The Anxiety Of Finding Your Purpose
She Means Business Show
Carrie Green
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Purpose anxiety...I’m talking about that pressure to find your purpose, to have everything figured out, to know exactly what you’re meant to be doing on this earth and to achieve amazing things.
So how do we live amazing lives, without pushing so hard that we miss all the beauty along the way?
This is what I want to share with you in this episode:
00:00 Intro
00:37 An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert: Insights on Purpose
01:05 The Pressure of Finding Our Purpose
02:33 My Journey from Crisis to Clarity
04:11 Achieving Goals and the Void That Follows
05:41 Questioning the Dream: What's Next After Success?
08:35 Living in the Present vs. Chasing Dreams
12:01 Gratitude: A Key to Living in the Moment
13:23 Redefining Purpose: Experience Over Achievement
17:46 My Final Thoughts on Purpose and Living the Dream
DM me on @iamcarriegreen and let me know what living the dream means to you and how you feel about finding your purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | What is my purpose? Am I just meant to do one thing for the rest of my life? Like, is this it? |
| 0:04.5 | Like, is it the female entrepreneur association for the rest of my life? The idea of just doing one |
| 0:09.7 | thing forever freaks me out. Like, I'm like, I'm here. I just, I don't want to just be one thing. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, hello, hello. So I want to chat with you about something, something that I've been really |
| 0:24.7 | thinking on for the past few years. And I really think this is like such an important conversation |
| 0:29.6 | to have. And I wonder how many other people have been struggling with the same kind of thoughts |
| 0:35.5 | that I've been struggling with. To start off, |
| 0:37.6 | last night I went to see an evening with Elizabeth Gilbert and she talked on stage for an hour |
| 0:43.1 | and a half and it was so amazing. It was funny actually. When I got home, I got into bed and I checked |
| 0:48.0 | my aurora ring data for the day. And then it was like, nap. 738 or something. And I was like, that's literally when |
| 0:57.1 | she started speaking. And I was like, I must have just relaxed so much when she started speaking that my |
| 1:01.3 | aura ring thought I was having a nap. I was not having a nap. But it was really interesting. So she |
| 1:06.5 | stood on stage and what she talked about was something she called purpose anxiety and she talked about |
| 1:12.5 | how we kind of live in this time where we feel so much pressure to figure out what our purpose |
| 1:19.3 | in life is. We feel like we're supposed to have it figured out. We're supposed to know what like our |
| 1:24.6 | unique gifts are to bring to this world. She said there's so much pressure on all of us to feel like we're supposed to leave what like our unique gifts are to bring to this world. She said there's so much |
| 1:28.9 | pressure on all of us to feel like we're supposed to leave our mark on the world, to leave a legacy, |
| 1:34.5 | to be like living big and like achieving amazing things. And if we're not, we just feel like we're |
| 1:43.1 | completely failing. And if we don't know what our |
| 1:45.7 | purpose is, then the idea of not having a purpose again makes you feel like you're failing. |
| 1:50.6 | And we're all trying to figure it out and get to this place where we know why we're here, |
| 1:56.9 | like what our purpose is. And it's just the amount of pressure that we put on ourselves causes so much |
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