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The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better
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About The Power Of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live
Product Description Purpose is fundamental and gives life meaning. It gives us the will to live and to live long and well. In this new edition of his bestselling classic, legendary personal coach Richard Leider offers brand-new tools and techniques for unlocking it. Purpose is an active expression of our values and our compassion for others—it makes us want to get up in the morning and add value to the world. The Power of Purpose details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you integrate it into everything you do. This third edition has been completely revised and updated. In addition to new stories, examples, and resources, it features four new chapters. “Purpose across the Ages” looks at how purpose can evolve during our lives. “The 24-Hour Purpose Retreat” includes seven mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose. “The Purpose Checkup” offers a new tool for periodically evaluating the health of your purpose. And in “Can Science Explain Purpose?” we learn what researchers are discovering about how an increased sense of purpose can improve our health, healing, happiness, longevity, and productivity. Review “Dynamic and useful.” —Publishers Weekly “Leider draws a road map for a life of service and improving the lives of others.” —Walter F. Mondale, former United States Vice President About the Author Richard J. Leider is a bestselling author and founder of Inventure—The Purpose Company. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the “Top 5” most respected executive coaches and by the Conference Board as a “legend in coaching.” He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including Repacking Your Bags, Life Reimagined, and Work Reimagined. His books have sold over one million copies and have been translated into twenty languages. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PREFACE Why Do You Get Up in the Morning? Your purpose. Your aim or direction. Your reason for being. Your reason for getting up in the morning. You may not have considered the first three items, but most of us have wondered about a reason to get up in the morning, at least occasionally. The Power of Purpose, Third Edition, is about that reason: to help you unlock the power of purpose in your life. What Is Purpose? Our purpose is the essence of who we are and what makes us unique. Our purpose is an active expression of the deepest dimension within us—where we have a profound sense of who we are and why we’re here. Purpose is the aim around which we structure our lives, a source of direction and energy. Through the lens of purpose, we are able to see ourselves—and our future—more clearly. You have a purpose no matter what age you are, how healthy you are, or what your economic or social situation is. Your purpose is the reason you were born, and it can be what gets you out of bed in the morning. Purpose is actively living your values, leaning toward compassion for others, and getting up in the morning to contribute value to the world. Purpose is what gives life a meaning. What Is the Power in Purpose? Power is the other key word in the book’s title that needs attention. Webster’s Dictionary defines power as the “ability to do, act, or produce.” Only certain kinds of purpose have the potential to be empowering, so being deliberate about identifying our purpose is essential. What determines the power in purpose, ultimately, is the worthiness of the aim. Having purpose that provides real power requires an aim outside ourselves. Only when our purpose is larger than ourselves can meaning be deeply savored and long lasting, not just a goal completed and then forgotten. At our very core we need to matter. We need evidence to believe that we are growing and are giving—becoming the best we can be. Naming our purpose helps us satisfy a basic need that we’re being used for a purpose that we recognize as worthy. Man
