Purpose Stories

Bonnie Benard, wrote, Resiliency: What We Have Learned, in which she identifies four questions to help understand one's meaning in life. We should consider asking ourselves: 1) Who am I? 2) What do I love? 3) How shall I live? and 4) How can I make a difference. "If there is meaning," says Benard, "there is purpose." Notice that purpose does not necessarily have anything to do with your career or how you make a living. It can include those, but it doesn't have to. A sense of purpose is often found in having goals, educational aspirations (which I think can be curiosity, the love of reading and learning), persistence, hopefulness, and a sense of a bright future. It's sometimes hard to define. There are no rules, you get to decide what it means for you. 

Thanks for listening.