Author name: Peter Schulte

We simply cannot do it all. We cannot do everything we’d like to do without burning ourselves out. So we must choose to let many things go to more fully choose our highest vision of who we are and what we are here to offer.

Purpose is like a garden. When we are feeling a lack of purpose, we don’t go out in the woods digging for it. We simply plant some seeds, pull some weeds, water (but not too much), and give it time.

At best, you can have a clear, powerful purpose for this chapter of your life and career. And that chapter might end five years from now and it might end tomorrow.

Let’s stop subjecting ourselves to this pointless, unwinnable battle against enough. Instead, let’s consider what we might do with our lives if we didn’t actually have anything to prove in the first place.

I was in my late 20s, traveling in Peru for a work conference. Once the conference ended, I took a solo excursion from Lima to the Sacred Valley near the ancient Incan cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu

When we chase bigger impact, we often end up applying and reinforcing the current system’s broken logic to social change. We end up recreating the same toxicity that got us here in the first place.

One of the big lies among people who want to have a positive impact in the world is that to do good, we kind of have to feel bad. We […]