How to Find Your Passion and Purpose

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Most people abandon their New Year's Resolutions by mid-January. This often occurs because people make resolutions based on what they feel like they should want, rather than what they actually do want. In other words, their goals and resolutions aren’t in alignment with their purpose. On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson discuss how we can identify and pursue our purpose, and why it’s so valuable to have one in the first place. They explore questions and strategies that can help us develop clarity on what we find meaningful, what our core values are, and how we’d like to spend our time. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 3:00: Why spend time discussing how to have a purpose? 11:00: Nonverbal ways to establish yourself in your purpose 12:50: Ways to be flexible that make purpose accessible 17:45: Fresh starts help us retain freedom in the present 21:20: How to listen to yourself when it's unclear what you want 26:05: Getting feedback from others and abandoning doomed pursuits 32:10: Moving past the inner critic and fear of letting others down 38:10: Five questions to ask yourself 48:15: Soul work and sacredness 50:30: Doing what helps you look at things differently 54:10: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Find the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.2	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:14.3	well-being.
0:15.3	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:17.8	To start by kind of bringing you behind the curtain for a second, this is the first podcast
0:22.4	episode that we're recording in 2022.
0:25.0	There's always this kind of fresh feeling, at least for me, around the start of the new
0:28.6	year.
0:29.6	Many of us set new goals and resolutions for the year ahead.
0:33.2	And it's now mid-January, which means that according to research, roughly half of those
0:37.4	resolutions have already been abandoned.
0:40.2	In my opinion, one of the big reasons this happens is because people often make resolutions
0:44.6	aimed at what they feel like they should want, rather than what they actually do want.
0:50.2	In other words, their goals and resolutions aren't really in alignment with their passions
0:55.4	or their broader sense of purpose.
0:58.0	And one of the big reasons that that happens is because people aren't really sure what
1:01.8	their purpose is.
1:03.2	How do I identify one or how to pursue it once they do?
1:06.7	So today we're going to be exploring a topic I've been wanting to talk about in more detail
1:10.4	for a while.
1:11.7	How we can identify and pursue our purpose is in life.
1:16.4	To help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist
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