Purpose 101

We sometimes overly center the role of healing in our lives. It’s as if we believe the whole point of our life is to heal our emotional wounds, that healing is the end goal. It’s not.

Perhaps the most transcendent and highest form of healing our own emotional wounds is to offer to the world what we needed but didn’t get.

It’s not actually our pain that stands in our way. It’s our wounds that hinder us. It’s our wounds that need to be healed. Our pain is simply the loyal messenger that will keep delivering its message until it is heeded.

Through our fixation on goals, we become prisoners – to our insatiable appetite for that next high, to external forces beyond our control, and to our need for something external to validate us.

Genius has a dual nature, much like how light acts both as a particle and a wave. It is our unique self and the call of the universe within us.

We all have passions. We all have talents. And quite often, they overlap. This area of overlap is what we might call our zone of genius. 

Genius is not something people are, genius is something people have. Genius is a capacity that every human has. In fact, perhaps it is actually what makes us human.

Everyone feels impostor syndrome. Unless you are lying about your qualifications or identity, you are NOT an impostor. You are simply in the growth zone, exactly where you should be.

Change is not only the end results that we can witness. Change is also the processes that we undergo within ourselves, our communities, and our organizations that produce those results.

For many of us, the possibility of change inspires and galvanizes. For others, the perceived absence of change elicits apathy, cynicism, and even despair. But what exactly is change? What is this concept that both inspires and haunts us?