This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer,

editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine.

And I'm money expert Nicole Lappin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help

callers solve their work problems. And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts, no.

Something in your life has changed, or maybe it's about to change and now you are questioning yourself.

This change isn't bad per se. Maybe it's good. It's a new job, a new city, a new path,

but it's also scary because the change feels bigger than all that it's not

just a change to a job a city a new path it feels like a change to your identity. Now you're asking yourself a really big question, like, who am I anymore? Today I will help you answer that question.

This answer will give you new purpose.

It'll embolden you and it'll help you become more comfortable with change.

And to find it, I'm going to share an exercise that I have done for thousands of people, as well as the

most memorable, incredible answer that anyone's ever given me.

Okay, to appreciate all this, let's just step back for a second. We all make a mistake. A mistake. You make it right now. I've made it for a long time and that mistake is that we tie our identities

too closely to the roles we occupy or the tasks we perform. What does that mean?

Well if someone came up to you at a party and asked,

what do you do?

Your answer would probably be some version of that.

It would be the role you occupy or the tasks you perform,

which is to say it would probably be your job or your title or something you do.

For a long time I would have said, I'm a magazine editor.

And there's nothing wrong with that in theory, but it sets us up for a massive disruption.

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