Where to Start... and How to Get There
Purpose Driven
Aligning your actions and choices with meaningful values and long term aspirations.
How to embody this word
What does purpose driven look like in daily life?
To embody purpose is to live intentionally, guided by principles and goals that matter deeply to you. It's choosing direction over drift and investing your energy in work or relationships that leave a positive mark. Learn to be motivated by more than external rewards and seek fulfillment through contribution and authenticity.
Where to start and how to get there
How can I practice this quality?
- Clarify your valuesList your top three guiding principles or causes.
- Set a meaningful goalDefine one objective that reflects those values.
- Align daily actionsChoose one task today that moves you closer to that goal.
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Putting this quality into practice
Robin is offered a better title for work that would pull the organization away from the community it promised to serve. The offer flatters every ambitious part of Robin. Then Robin rereads the mission statement written before funding entered the room. Being purpose driven means asking not only, ‘Can this grow?’ but ‘Will it still be ours after it does?’ Robin asks for changes before saying yes.
Being purpose driven does not require perfection. Practice matters more than performance.
Where are you already practicing being purpose driven, even if nobody else has noticed?
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