PLAYLIST: Purpose is fuel for changemaking
The most impactful changemakers operate at the intersection of what moves them (their purpose), what the world needs (explore the megatrends series), and their unique superpowers.
My 20+ years in research and practice of transformation across 6 continents suggest that an idea is much more likely to transform the world if it springs from your internal sense of mandate. Regardless of whether you can articulate your story, I believe each changemaker is driven by theirs.
This mini-series attempts to answer, Why does it matter? What is yours? And what does it mean?
Part 1 | Why you'd want to discover your purpose ASAP
I believe that changemakers are a bit like superheroes: we have abilities that “regular” people do not possess. Discovering the purpose of our superpowers is an essential part of figuring ourselves out and living a fulfilled life.
Where it comes to your purpose, ignorance and denial are equally deadly because surprise eruptions can sabotage you.
Supercharge your change-making
My 20+ years in research and practice of transformation across 6 continents suggest that an idea is much more likely to transform the world if it springs from your internal sense of mandate.
Part 2 | 9 exercises to discover your purpose
If I could magically strip you of all hang-ups, what would you want to say? To show? What would you want the world to heed? To know? And to do with that awareness? In the second part of this series, I introduce 9 converging paths to discovering your purpose and share mine as a guide.
Part 3 | Settling into a life of purpose
In this post, we explore how knowing your purpose may change your life.
You are defined as much by who you are as by who you are not. Think of it not in terms of what you are forced to forsake but in terms of where you could be a virtuoso. There is no doubt that Yo-Yo Ma could have charted any number of paths in music. However, he chose cello at the expense of other options, and the world has held its breath ever since.
Embracing your mandate as a changemaker
The first post of this mini-series on purpose argued that it has the power to supercharge our change-making. In the second post, I shared 9 tested pathways for discovering one’s purpose and encouraged you to do so for yourself, your loved ones, teams, and communities. Now, let’s explore how knowing your purpose may change your life. Having already sh…