Hello and welcome back to practicing human podcast where every day we're getting a little

better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the difference

between a fixed versus a fluid life purpose.

More to come on that in a moment.

Next let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So the other day I wrote a post on Instagram, by the way if you're not following on Instagram

lots of content there that I don't post here, but this post said, relentlessly adhering

to a life purpose you previously declared for yourself can prevent you from feeling

what is most alive and true in you right now, so I'll say that again, relentlessly adhering

to a life purpose you previously declared for yourself can prevent you from feeling what

is most alive and true in you right now.

Lots of pressure and at least Western culture too have a sense of purpose.

The thing you're supposed to do with your life, the overarching vision and you see a lot

of people with what we could call purpose anxiety that they don't feel a sense of purpose

but then they feel more anxiety because of a lack of a sense of purpose and so there

just seems to be this clamoring for an understanding of why am I here, what am I supposed to do,

which for the record, cool inquiry, that can be the beginning of really seeking to understand

the human condition better.

I mean that's a really prompted my path as well, it's like what is well being, why do

anything, what's the purpose of it all, so that can really take us into cool explorations

of the mind, but I think sometimes we can prematurely try to adopt a purpose or we get

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