ITL249: What to Do When You Feel Purposeless
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, a recently retired teacher and principal asks what to do when you've lost your purpose. She spends time with her kids and grandchildren, but after 45 years in education no longer feels needed.
By understanding the butterfly effect, you could make a case that an afternoon with a grandchild could make as much difference long-term as an hour with a stadium full of people.
- Time spent with a grandchild is precious—not just for them, but for all of us.
- You are shaping the world we all live in.
Create some kind of ministry or business based on passing along the wisdom you've accrued.
- You may find you have much more purpose now because you're at a point where you have the experience to lay things out.
- As you lay out what you think people ought to do, fully explain why that is so. Prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
- So many people forget that some of the greatest businesses and ministries took years and years of preparations before they could make an impact.
If there was no more purpose for you to be here, you wouldn't be breathing.
- You may not know what your purpose is right now, but you need to look very closely at your circumstances and get to work going after it.
- The very fact you're still here tells me you have not fulfilled your purpose—the most important part of your life is still ahead of you.
Tune in to hear Andy's best advice for harnessing the hard-earned knowledge you've won and getting it out to the most people possible.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Lloyd. Thanks for being |
| 0:17.9 | with us today. And Andy, thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:27.3 | I am excited to be here, buddy. Okay. I'm excited. And we have our sponsor today. |
| 0:29.9 | I was going to say, I'm excited to hear who the sponsor is this week. It's just one of my favorite things. It's rocker man of Texas. |
| 0:35.4 | Rocker Man of Texas.com. |
| 0:38.2 | I mean, these, I'm just telling you, we had a bunch of people over the other day |
| 0:43.1 | and people are just asking about these chairs because they're traditional looking, |
| 0:50.7 | but so unusual because they're just thick. |
| 0:54.6 | They're just sturdy and they're handmade, right? |
| 0:58.7 | They've got different kinds. |
| 1:00.2 | Now, the Rockers are their, that's just their brand, okay? |
| 1:05.4 | But if you go to rocker man of Texas.com, you need to go and see this and go on their Facebook page and look |
| 1:14.1 | at the different pieces and how they do it. Because like I say, these things are made to last |
| 1:21.0 | a lifetime. And they've got straight chairs, rocking chairs. They've got double rockers, they've got swings, |
| 1:30.5 | they've got Adirondack chairs. |
| 1:33.2 | And one thing that I can tell you for sure, if you live in an outdoor or have an outdoor |
| 1:38.9 | environment that you need for, you know, outdoor furniture for, this stuff is not going to blow away. I mean, |
| 1:46.9 | it's heavy. It's just good, solid stuff. It's not going to blow away. It's comfortable. It's big. |
| 1:55.6 | And it's going to last, you know. I mean, where we are in a saltwater environment, good grief. |
| 2:03.2 | I was, I was having to get, we were having to get outdoor stuff every couple or three years |
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