How to find purpose at work: Blue Zones lessons with Richard Leider

Richard Leider, bestselling author and coach, shares his insight on how you can find fulfillment at work. Start your purpose journey today.

Transcript

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When I google purpose, I get over a billion hits. And it's from health care, it's from aging.

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It's also through leadership. Trust is built by purposeful leaders.

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Purpose is age agnostic, but purpose is also industry agnostic.

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So many people today are unwilling, if they can have that choice, to work for an organization that

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doesn't have a purpose or a leader that doesn't have a purpose. We've all had narcissistic leaders, who are all about themselves and their own careers.

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Did that make you feel productive? Did that make you feel want to get up and go to work every day? I don't think so. I've had those in my life, and I'm sure you have as well.

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What I found is that purpose and health and purpose and well-being, you see purpose now as the centerpiece of integrative medicine and not

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just nutrition and diet and exercise and sleep and all of the things that are obvious factors, but also

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through mindset, through attitude. We're talking about life skills of the 21st century here, figuring out who you are and how you want to grow

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and how you can succeed. It's a redefinition for many people of success. Beyond money, it's success with fulfillment.

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When I met Viktor Frankl, he drew a line, a horizontal line. It said not successful, successful.

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And then he drew a vertical line. So he created four quadrants. And the vertical line was fulfillment.

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And at the top was deep fulfillment. At the bottom was despair. What we want is success with fulfillment.

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And he said on the lower left is a job, something that maybe doesn't give you all the financial or outer success

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and maybe doesn't even give you the fulfillment, but at least you get by and pay the bills. The lower right-hand is career.

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Maybe you're moving up the ladder of success. But at some point, maybe you're done with that, or you're burned out, or you're not fulfilled.

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And then in the upper left, high fulfillment, not necessarily high success is a mission, something

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that you feel like, well, this feeds my soul; I have compassion for this.

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And then on the upper right was calling. And that's what really grabbed me. I want to help people find success with fulfillment.

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They have to define what is success with fulfillment for them. I see that this yearning to define

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the answer to what's next is a life skill today, not just a luxury. [AUDIO LOGO]