How to Be More Purposeful #178
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“Your purpose won’t show up one day; it shows up day by day.” – Brian Buffini
Many people have no sense of purpose because they don’t know what they want or how to get it. In this episode, Brian teaches how to get more meaning and fulfilment from your business and your life. You’ll learn why people fail, how to discover your major purpose with a FREE worksheet “Finding Your Definite Major Purpose”, and to start living more purposefully. By the end of this episode, you’ll have everything you need to figure out what you really want, prioritize your activities and build habits that will help you become an on-purpose person.
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Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“Your purpose won’t show up one day; it shows up day by day.” – Brian Buffini
“Most people aim for nothing and hit it with amazing accuracy.” – Joe Niego
“If you don’t know where you’re going, every road will take you there.” – Brian Buffini
“We don’t know what we want, so we have to ask questions.” – Brian Buffini
“It’s very important not to abandon the sequence of how to get there.” – Brian Buffini
“I believe success leaves clues.” – Brian Buffini
“Your tomorrow builds on your today.” – Brian Buffini
“What you’re doing today should be a stepping stone to get you to where you really want to be.” – Brian Buffini
“Ask the question: what do I really want?” – Brian Buffini
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.” Confucius
“The urgent creates overwhelm.” – Brian Buffini
“Life in the blender is the speed of life that preoccupies us day to day and everything becomes the tyranny of the urgent.” – Brian Buffini
“We have to be very intentional to take little timeouts.” – Brian Buffini
“The number one reason we see people fail is when they are inconsistent.” – Brian Buffini
“Everybody thinks they’re going to be consistent...but we all need help.” – Brian Buffini
“What a different story people would have to tell if only they would adopt a definite purpose and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession.” – Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in the back door and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.” – Napoleon Hill
“Have definite, major purpose. Make up your mind and go after it with all gusto. That’s how to be a more purposeful person.” – Brian Buffini
“It’s not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau
“The secret of success, of every person who has ever been successful, lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.” – Albert E.N. Gray
“If you continually ask yourself, ‘What’s important now?’ you won’t waste time on the trivial.” – Lou Holtz
“Every morning, wake up and ask yourself: ‘What’s my definite major purpose? What is it I’ve enjoyed doing in my life? What is very natural for me to do? Where do my gifts lie? Where do I have confidence? …Then ask, what’s important now?’” – Brian Buffini
“Write yourself clear. Write out your thoughts.” – Brian Buffini
“A purpose statement, when done right, gets shorter and shorter and shorter not longer and longer and longer. It gets clearer, it gets more concise, it gets more precise and it becomes more powerful.” – Brian Buffini
“You can live a more purposeful life. You can have a more purposeful career. You can leave this world a little better than you found it. That’s what I’m hoping for with my work.” – Brian Buffini
Mentioned in this episode:
“Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
“The Common Denominator of Success” by Albert E.N. Gray
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies |
| 0:19.4 | of success. |
| 0:20.4 | Here's your host, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you, welcome to the Brian Bafini show. |
| 0:35.8 | Excited to be with you today. |
| 0:37.8 | The title of our program today is How to Be More Purposeful. |
| 0:41.6 | And obviously there's a lot of books written on the subject. |
| 0:44.6 | There's a lot of research on the internet, on the spiritual websites, the question what's |
| 0:51.1 | God's purpose for my life or God's will for my life. |
| 0:53.9 | It's a question that people are asking all the time. |
| 0:56.7 | How can I be more purposeful? |
| 0:58.5 | And so we're going to throw a few ideas out here today, not an exhaustive work on the |
| 1:02.3 | subject, but enough to get you thinking. |
| 1:05.5 | Purpose by its very definition is the reason for which something is done or created or |
| 1:12.1 | the reason for which something exists, the French call it the raison d'être, the reason |
| 1:17.7 | for existence. |
| 1:19.6 | What is that for you? |
| 1:21.2 | And what gives you a sense of purpose? |
| 1:23.0 | In my experience, it's many things, okay? |
| 1:25.4 | My faith, my family, the work that I do, the people I get to serve with the befining |
| 1:30.4 | company. |
| 1:31.4 | That all collides together for me in a sense of purpose, the people we get to serve. |
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