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Do you ever wake up wondering what truly drives you? Navigating life without a clear direction often feels like wandering through a fog, but discovering your true **Purpose** transforms daily routines into a meaningful journey.

"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. Scaling the 'why' is the hardest part."
Simon Sinek
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Source: Talk: TED Talks

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"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. If you lose your 'why' as you scale, you lose your customers."
Simon Sinek
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Source: Book: Start With Why

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"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Viktor Frankl
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Source: Book: Man's Search for Meaning

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"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it."
Steven Pressfield
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Source: Book: The War of Art

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"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankl
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Source: Book: Man's Search for Meaning

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"An obsession is where the mind finds its true home."
robert greene
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Source: Book: Mastery

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"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right."
Steve Jobs
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Source: Interview: Smithsonian Institution Oral History

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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Source: Book: Twilight of the Idols

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
Viktor Frankl
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Source: Book: Man's Search for Meaning

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"People do not buy what you do; they buy why you do it."
Simon Sinek
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Source: Talk: TEDxPuget Sound

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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
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Source: Book: Meditations, Book XII

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"The goal is not to retire, but to find work you want to do forever."
James Clear
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Source: Newsletter: 3-2-1 Thursday

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver
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Source: Poem: The Summer Day

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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."
E.B. White
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Source: Interview: The Paris Review

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"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion."
Simon Sinek
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Source: Book: Start with Why

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"Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself."
Derek Sivers
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Source: Book: Anything You Want

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"The joy of the soul constitutes the chief good of this life."
rene descartes
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Source: Letter: To Princess Elisabeth

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"To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them."
rene descartes
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Source: Book: Principles of Philosophy

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"I desire to live in peace and to continue the time I have begun to employ in instructing myself."
rene descartes
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Source: Book: Discourse on the Method

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"Philosophy is the study of wisdom."
rene descartes
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Source: Book: Principles of Philosophy

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"Work hard on things that matter."
Paul Graham
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Source: Essay: How to Do Great Work

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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
Emily Dickinson
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Source: Poem: If I can stop one heart from breaking (J919)

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"Emotions are not obstacles to a productive life; they are the very energy that fuels it."
Alain de Botton
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Source: YouTube: The School of Life

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"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances."
shakespeare
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Source: Play: As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7

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"Men at some time are masters of their fates."
shakespeare
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Source: Play: Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2

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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
shakespeare
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Source: Play: Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
shakespeare
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Source: Play: Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1

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"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
shakespeare
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Source: Play: Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
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Source: Inspired by: Self-reflection and Purpose

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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery."
Abraham Lincoln
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Source: Letter: To Horace Greeley

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"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
Bruce Lee
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Source: Book: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

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"Gratitude is the bridge between where you are and where you want to be."
ryan holiday
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Source: Newsletter: The Daily Stoic

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"When you focus on gratitude, the world opens up to you."
ryan holiday
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Source: Article: Thought Catalog

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"Gratitude is not a feeling, it is a choice we make every single day."
ryan holiday
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Source: YouTube: Daily Stoic

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"Amor fati is not just accepting your fate, it is loving it and being thankful for it."
ryan holiday
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Source: YouTube: Daily Stoic

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