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Happiness is […]","datePublished":"2023-06-12","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/have-more\/purpose\/","about":["Have More"],"wordCount":818,"articleBody":"What is the greatest difference you can make?Happiness is a by-product – It is a by-product of a meaningful life filled with purpose.\u00a0 Doing what you love, makes you happy.A life worth living. –\u00a0Happiness is the symptom, not the cause.\u00a0 The cause is a meaningful life filled with purpose.\u00a0 Having that purpose will bring you happiness.\u00a0 That is the real secret of life.With a big enough why, you can handle any what.Figure out what you’re good at.\u00a0 Figure out what you love to do.\u00a0 Figure out what the world needs.\u00a0 Figure out how to make money at it.\u00a0 If you figure those 4 things out, your passion becomes your purpose, becomes your living, becomes your life.Someone to love.\u00a0 A cause to embrace.\u00a0 Meaningful work.A life that is filled with purpose, is a full life. As you get older, and slam into the mid-life crisis you never thought you’d experience, you begin to realize you might not be where you thought you should be at this point in your life.\u00a0 As a teenager, or even in your 20’s, you dream of changing the world.\u00a0 You dream of becoming someone.\u00a0 You dream for your future.\u00a0 And now, 20 years later, you might not be living that dream.\u00a0 You might have made a bad choice or two, or walked down the easier path, instead of the harder one that would have taken you to where you want to go.\u00a0 You made choices, and you are where you are. This can be very difficult for people to reconcile.\u00a0 Very difficult for people to live with.\u00a0 But what you have to realize is this is not in vain.\u00a0 You are still the same person who had those dreams, and you can still achieve them.\u00a0 The huge advantage you have now is you know what you’re good at, what you can do, and how you can dream.\u00a0 You know a whole lot more about life, love, and belonging, and you know there is more to life than you thought. But there’s a lot of pressure around purpose.\u00a0 There’s a lot of pressure around living a meaningful life.\u00a0 You’re surrounded by people who are broadcasting themselves, and everything they do.\u00a0 There are people who seem so much farther ahead then you are.\u00a0 But you have to stop and think for a moment, and ask yourself this question: Am I living to my fullest potential?\u00a0\u00a0 Success is only relevant when measured against one’s own potential. Now people have high hopes, but sometimes not realistic dreams.\u00a0 So when finding your purpose, the very first thing you have to do is be realistic, almost harsh, around what you can do.\u00a0 Who you are.\u00a0 What your circumstances are.\u00a0 And what your next step might be. The best definition I’ve ever heard of a purposeful life is the following:Someone to love.\u00a0 Meaningful work.\u00a0 A cause to embrace. If you have those three things, you are living with purpose.\u00a0 You might not be coming up with a vaccine during a pandemic.\u00a0 You might not be saving the whales.\u00a0 You might not be making a difference on a global scale, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t purposeful and live a life full of purpose. You can love your family, your children, your partner.\u00a0 You can be working at something that is small, such as making the perfect burger, but that can mean an amazing meal for whomever you just served.\u00a0 You can have a cause that is small, such as giving a gift, and that can make all the difference in someone’s world. Your purpose doesn’t have to be huge, it just has to be meaningful to you. Sometimes there are exterior forces that give us our purpose.\u00a0 Maybe you lost someone you love to a terrible disease, and you want to cure it so no one else has to go through what you did.\u00a0 Maybe drugs or alcohol are an issue, and you need to fix that behaviour, no matter how hard it is.\u00a0 Maybe your family was poor, and you need to make money to provide for them, and you.\u00a0 That could be your purpose.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be some grand plan.\u00a0 Just what makes a difference for you. Here is a simple framework that may help you find your purpose. Start simple.\u00a0 Figure out what you’re good at.\u00a0 Figure out what you love to do.\u00a0 Figure out what the world needs.\u00a0 Figure out how to make money at it.\u00a0 If you figure those 4 things out, your passion becomes your purpose, becomes your living, becomes your life. The best thing about this framework above, is if you find yourself living a life full of purpose, happiness is a by-product.\u00a0 Sometimes searching for happiness makes it more difficult to find.\u00a0 But if you search for a purpose, you may just find happiness."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Have More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/have-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Purpose","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/have-more\/purpose\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]