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Seeking the Purpose of Your Life
Making a difference in the world around you is the separation between a life lived, and a life well lived
There is a quiet awakening that eventually finds us all; the day where you begin to think beyond yourself and consider for the first time not just how to live, but what does your life mean?
We get caught up in career, spouses, friends and family, getting by each day as best we can. The days pass quickly, then we find ourselves in our 30s, and for many this is the age where we question for the first time if what we have is what we really wanted from our own lives?
My questioning moment came at a career development workshop in San Francisco. There was about 20 of us who had put in a full day working on career paths, money, and how to figure out if the career track you were following was going to take you to your goals.
We finished the day, the locals left for their commute home, and I was sitting alone in the hotel bar waiting for an early morning flight. The course instructor, a confident professor/consultant who had specialized in careers for several decades, came in, saw me, and sat down. I bought him a drink and we spent several hours just talking.
