What’s the Purpose of Purpose?

Releasing the pressure of having a purpose.What Is the Purpose of Purpose?The definition of purpose is “the reason something exists.”

Andrea Deskin

June 14, 2025

What’s the Purpose of Purpose?

Your 4 Pathways to Purpose (and My Newest Passion)

Something that EXCITES you: passion is a great fuel for purposeSomething that AGITATES you: Reed Hastings started Netflix because he

Chip Conley

May 9, 2025

Your 4 Pathways to Purpose (and My Newest Passion)

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their

Karen Salmansohn

April 20, 2025

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

Searching and Then

In grade school, he was told, “You need to have a purpose.” So, he looked for it behind the swings

Mark Nepo

December 25, 2024

Searching and Then

Your Extraordinary Why.

Much of the work of the second half of life is to discover why we are here. Who am I?

Denny Meadows

September 2, 2024

Your Extraordinary Why.

Perpetual Purpose

At nearly-87, Dad decided to take one of our “Cultivating Purpose” workshops with our MEA co-founder Jeff Hamaoui and master

Chip Conley

August 12, 2024

Perpetual Purpose

Breathing in Your Purpose.

I did all the things they said to do. I went to Harvard for college because it was a world-renowned

Zee Clarke

May 25, 2024

Breathing in Your Purpose.

Purpose Serves Us.

Our life’s purpose is hard to craft,We’re told it’s our gift to the world, to give.The quest to discovery grows

Ray Kennedy

May 19, 2024

Purpose Serves Us.

I am a “Butterfly Whisperer.”

This principle came to life for me through the insight of my friend and MEA alum Ben Davis, who, many

Chip Conley

March 18, 2024

I am a “Butterfly Whisperer.”

4 Paths to Midlife Purpose.

If I were to distill the fastest path to feeling a sense of purpose, it would be based on this

Chip Conley

February 19, 2024

4 Paths to Midlife Purpose.

The Tale of Two Book Launches.

My book, “Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder,” came out in September 2018 and one day later, I found

Chip Conley

January 30, 2024

The Tale of Two Book Launches.

Your Scavenger Hunt for Purpose.

I’m going to focus on that last path in today’s post in commemoration that my seventh book comes out this

Chip Conley

January 16, 2024

Your Scavenger Hunt for Purpose.