Any of these ambitions might actually match your true purpose. If so, you’ll feel a powerful inward compulsion to follow that particular path. You’ll find the steps along the way fascinating and fulfilling, and as a result you’ll be good at them. But if you pursue any course of action solely because other people think it’s “purposeful,” prepare to

The questions I most often come back to include: What is work? How did you arrive at that conclusion? What scripts are you unconsciously living out? Are they serving you or holding you back? Is there a better script for your life, right now?

“What have I done in my life that I loved doing?” Instead of a million different options from out there, you’re suddenly left with a manageable handful of options from within your own experience. Instead of trying to hitch your star to an endless black hole of options, you hitch a ride on your rewarding past.

The best way to avoid this is to articulate clearly our own Workview and Lifeview, so we can build our own unique compass.