Most likely you have been on a search for your purpose, and it's been a spin after another spin

inside of a cycle of spin. You think that if you look harder or if you look at the right place

or if you have the right thought, you're going to get there and it's going to just pop up magically

and say, oh, yes, and here you go. But it never works like that, which is why so many people

like yourself have been stuck in it for so long.

And the reason that you can't find it is because there's a way in which we look for our purpose that guarantees it doesn't work.

We're going to give you a little bit of a perspective on purpose.

We're going to talk about some practical ways to approach the search so that it changes

all together in a way that's going to get you exactly where you want to go, even if you don't

know where that's going to be until after you get there. So the good news is that everybody

that I know who's led a meaningful life has gone through this search for purpose at some point. So

you're not alone in it. It's not novel. Most of the people that I know have gone through this search for purpose at some point. So you're not alone in it.

It's not novel.

Most of the people that I know have gone through it somewhere in their 20s and 30s, but there are some people I know who were really driven, who really understood their purpose at an early age. But then 40s and 50s, that chapter of their life was done, and now they're looking for a new chapter of their life. And some even in their 60s when they're in retirement,

they're like, oh, I knew what I was doing, but now I'm retired. What's my purpose now? What's the thing that's going to drive me to the next level of life or to the next portion of life? And so it happens to all of us. And as soon as you really see what the search of purpose is all about, then the search takes care of itself. It makes it so it's inevitable for you to get to the place that you want to go.

The only thing you have to let go of is that you can actually know where it is that you want to go before you get there.

So my 15-year-old daughter is really interested to get into a good college.

And so she said to me the other day, I know I have to do something special to get into a great college.

And I've been searching my whole life to find out what that special thing is, and I haven't found it yet.

And so I asked her, I said, hey, how are you searching?

She's like, well, I think about something.

And then I wonder, oh, is that the thing? And then I realize it might be for a while, but then I'm not inspired by it. And so then that goes away. And then I'm sitting there thinking, looking around, trying to find stuff, and then maybe that's it. And I think about it and then it doesn't work. And I told her, I said, you know, that's like looking at 10, 5-year-old boys and say, which one is going to be the world champion swimmer? You can't know until they get in the pool, until you see how they swim, until they have a drive, until you see how, if they like water, if they're scared scared water if they have any passion about swimming you actually have to go and investigate the thing to understand what the

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