#469 Do You Need To Have A Purpose At Work?

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And so when we asked lots of you for topic ideas or areas you just needed some support with We have people saying, like, how do I stay connected to my purpose? So I get really lost in the day to day. So that implies this person has a purpose, but maybe kind of loses it along the way. Other people saying. How do I know my purpose? Um, everything's so squiggly. What I really like about this person's feedback is they were like, I like everything. I'm interested and I'm curious. So it's really hard to kind of nail down my purpose. I was like, oh, that's a really good observation.

And then someone else saying, I've been working for over twenty years And I still don't feel like I've found a purpose, like is that a problem or am I kind of doing something wrong? I've been thinking when when people talk about purpose. It's quite a popular thing, isn't it? To talk about my my purpose. And I find

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