Finding Purpose After Retirement: Is It as Hard as You Think? Can you reinvent yourself if you don’t know what you’re ...

Having a purpose in life has been found to have many benefits for people, including better health and emotion management, less stress during stressful times, and even economic success. And it is ...

Purpose is a huge topic within the human development community. It has spawned countless books—including one by this author—and many, many conferences. Most examinations of the topic focus on how to ...

"Find your purpose." It has become such common advice that few question it. But rather than inspirational, it can feel like a burden. How do I go about finding this and what if I never do? This is ...

“The awakening is not the work.” Every leadership conference has them. The beautifully crafted purpose statement, unveiled ...

In 2014, psychologist Larissa Rainey published a groundbreaking paper identifying purpose anxiety, a phenomenon affecting up to 91% of people at some point in their lives. Purpose anxiety is the ...

The Paradox of Purpose The idea that purpose must be grand leads to stress and feelings of inadequacy. The key is to focus on “little” purpose: those tiny moments in which you are most alive. By ...

As AI reshapes jobs, many people are rethinking what gives work meaning. Four pathways may explain why some roles feel fulfilling while others do not.

It has become such common advice that few question it. But rather than inspirational, it can feel like a burden. How do I go about finding this and what if I never do? This is “purpose anxiety” — the ...