It can feel so overwhelming right now. As I write this, we are in the midst of a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, a questionable economy, demonstrations on racial injustice, and a bitter and monumental presidential election. My wife said some days she feels like the world is ending.

Trying to manage through the uncertainty can be intense.

I’ve found that especially during uncertainty, Purpose is the key that unlocks everything.

That when Purpose is clear, a personal purpose aligned to a corporate purpose aligned to a societal purpose, that miracles can happen.

Fear drops away. Commitment skyrockets. Seemingly impossible things happen with ease. Because people feel connected to, and supported by, something bigger than themselves. Do you see that in your life? At your company?

If so, congratulations. I want to hear more! Leave a comment below and tell me what you are up to!

And if you are struggling with that, I have a gift for you. Sign up for my free book in the sidebar at right.

When you lead from purpose, you are allowing something beyond ego, beyond the small self, to emerge through you.

As I’ve written (and discuss in my book, below), when you able to find and lead from your purpose, things that used to be hard, to even feel like drudgery, suddenly become easy.

Sometimes, your purpose goes beyond just a personal mission. Sometimes, it calls you, it requires you, to create an organization or a business to bring that purpose into being.

You find yourself enrolling others in your purpose, and organizing them to deliver it.

How to do that? That’s the next stage of my own work. To align with organizations that have done that. To unpack what works and what doesn’t. To study and distill and disseminate the principles behind the purpose-built organization. To build such an organization to create a broader footprint for my own work, helping to unleash the potential of individuals and groups to create a better world.

If you want to take the first step toward learning more about this, sign up for my new book at right.

More to come.

According to Joseph Campbell and others, we tend to see our own lives and others’ as a hero’s journey, beginning with “the call to adventure.”

George Lucas famously based Star Wars on the hero’s journey.

In the hero’s journey, life asks us to leave everything we know behind. To take on a new adventure. To get to know ourselves at a deeper level and to bring that knowledge back to our community.

My hero’s journey started when I left the corporate world to pursue coaching. It continues as I share what I have learned and help others to find their calling, often through their own new adventure.

But I didn’t start out looking for it. I was laid off, and it was only then that I decide to “answer the call.”

Are you on a hero’s journey? Whether you chose it or not?

If so, sign up at right for the book I just wrote on finding and leading from your deeper sense of purpose.

We are told our whole lives that success works this way—

We work hard, we get the things that we are supposed to get. We achieve. We make money. We get power and status and relationships.

We do it all with the conviction that if we can only get enough and have enough we can (finally) BE enough.

That we can get rid of the nagging feeling inside, the feeling that we have had our whole lives, that there is something missing in us.

But what if that’s exactly backwards?

What if the sense of not enough is only a projection, a story? Made up by our parents, by society, and then, unwittingly, by us? A story that protects us, but also damages us?

The story of you is just a story. Designed to have you feel danger, and to take action to make yourself safe. Except it has gone awry, and there is now no amount of action that you can take that will get you to that point of arrival, of safety, of “enough.”

If you want to get a sense of how crazy the ego is, notice that, if you are like most achievers, you want BOTH to stand out, AND to fit in.

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