Purposeful Living: Strategies to Align Your Values and Actions with Victor Strecher

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Victor Strecher discusses purposeful living and strategies to align your values and actions. Vic shares his imperfect journey back to meaning and to living for what matters most after losing his daughter. He explores what it means to be purposeful versus just having a purpose, how energy and vitality play a role in living out our values, and why purpose isn’t just for the privileged.

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Key Takeaways:

The significance of purpose in life and its impact on well-being.
Personal experiences of loss and grief, particularly the impact of losing a loved one on understanding purpose.
The distinction between values, purpose, and meaning, and how they interconnect.
The role of energy and vitality in living a purposeful life, including factors like sleep, mindfulness, and nutrition.
The concept of mortality salience and its influence on identifying core values and priorities.
Practical methods for discovering and articulating one’s purpose, such as the headstone test.
The accessibility of purpose for everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status.
The relationship between purpose and happiness
Encouragement for self-reflection and intentionality in daily life to align actions with personal values.

If you enjoyed this conversation with Victor Strecher, check out these other episodes:

How to Create a Life Strategy for Meaningful Change with Seth Godin

How to Shift Your Emotions: Moving from Chaos to Clarity with Ethan Kross

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0:00.0	Sleep, presence, activity, creativity, and eating, or space.
0:05.5	It's just a simple moniker that I use, did I give myself space today?
0:09.9	Did I sleep? Was I present? Was I active? Creative? Did I eat well?
0:14.8	And after a while, you can become your own researcher.
0:27.0	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:31.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:37.2	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts
0:39.7	don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see
0:47.1	what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our
0:52.0	spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
0:56.6	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about
1:02.5	how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:09.8	Today's guest, Dr. Vic Strecker, author of Life on Purpose, lost his daughter, Julia, and
1:16.2	in his darkest hour, found himself paddling into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan,
1:22.0	not sure if he would ever return.
1:25.0	But what happened next wasn't a miracle cure. It was the beginning of a long,
1:30.4	real, and often imperfect journey back to meaning and to living for what matters most. In this
1:39.5	episode, Vic and I unpack what it means to be purposeful versus just having a purpose, how energy and
1:47.8	vitality play a role in living out our values, and why purpose isn't just for the privileged.
1:54.5	I'm Eric Zimmer, and this is the one you feed.
1:58.6	Hi, Vic, welcome to the show.
2:00.5	Thank you, Eric.
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