Your Search For Purpose


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Your Search For Treasure

I think I've spent more time than most feeling that I'm out of my element. From practicing law to entreprenuership--nothing ever really felt like it was clicking the way that I wanted to.

I bought in to the Churchill quote:

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

But it just seemed like the "tapping" wasn't happening for me.

It's now been almost a decade since I first quit my job as a biglaw lawyer, and something that I've learned with the benefit of hindsight is that the search for the tap on the should is really about our search for our purpose. And because purpose isn't a tangible thing that you can hold in your hand, I think that our search for purpose is really a search for TREASURE.

Treasure comes from the same root word as thesaurus (Thesauros—a storehouse of treasure—also MEANING)—your search for treasure is your search for MEANING, the definition of your life, your purpose and where you find your treasure there will your heart be also.

Your treasure is the thing you find more valuable than time and more valuable than money. And because it transcends BOTH time and money, if you make the quest ABOUT time OR money, you'll never really find the treasure. You'll never really find your purpose.

The default path gives you other people's best answer for how they found their meaning, but you have to find your own answer. Leaving the default path has an outward journey as a search for treasure--while the inward journey is a reconnection to the heart.

When you find it, the meaning of your life becomes doing the work where your heart is and your mind is.

Until next time,

Raleigh Williams
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