From the course: Pushing Past Your Prior Limits

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Only you can decide your purpose

Only you can decide your purpose

- [Interviewer] Well, I'd also love to get your take when folks are saying you know, Laura, I love this I'm right on, I want to get more limitless. I want more continence. What's what are the biggest mistakes that people end up making when they are going after this stuff? - [Laura} I would say that the number one biggest mistake that people make is that they say, I want more continence. I want my work to have meaning. And then they say, well, meaning has to have purpose. And purpose has to be purpose, like higher purpose, lofty purpose. And they assign these ideas to it, which are either, well, I actually want to make money, so I don't really want to go do that purpose thing. Or maybe I'll do that purpose thing later. Or you know, I don't know what that purpose thing is for me. And again, I spent 20 years helping people find work in purpose and nonprofit, in nonprofit jobs and what I'll say is that it's really great to go…

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