My job is to help companies uncover their true purpose—literally.
BrightHouse is a management consulting group that helps leaders find the intersection between who they are and the need in the world they can fill. It’s a great gig, my dream job, actually, and January 21st marks a year since I started doing it.
I’m coming to understand purpose as a question that can only be answered by our actions. Beyond our circumstances, we are responsible only for how we respond in each moment.
I thought this idea was an empty platitude, possibly designed by a corrupt system to encourage the masses towards complacency, until I found my life transformed by holocaust survivor and psychologist Viktor Frankl’s remarkable book, Man’s Search for Meaning.
Frankl wrote, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Habits are how we often fill that gap between stimulus and response. That makes them the key to our freedom. This idea was revolutionary to me, and what began as a sort of New Year’s resolution was the start of a whole new life.
Last year saw a major shake-up of habits related to every major resource I’ve been given: time, information, money, and food. I covered four of these in a previous post, and later this year I want to explore additional disciplines in managing time and relationships. Time and relationships aren’t solvable, but they are critical, and getting them right is the best way to experience a rich and fulfilling life. So stay tuned to discover the stuff I tried and how it’s working so far.