I joined the Rule Breakers crew because intellectually, I understood the value of a growth, mindset and experimentation. But it's another thing entirely to believe it and to actually act accordingly. My biggest area of personal growth in my business has come from learning that purpose is not something we find. But something we create continuously. messaging that I'd received throughout my life encouraged me and you most likely to find my purpose and discover my passion. And as far back as childhood when adults asked, What do you want to be when you grow up? All of that instilled in me the mists truth that once I found my purpose, then everything would click into place. uncertainty and confusion would dissolve. The linear path forward would reveal itself, I'd have a clear path forward for the rest of my life. As it turns out, purpose is not a destination. It's a direction. Here's how I learned this. The connection to purpose that I feel in my business is a connection that I searched for. I longed for all my life, not knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up, haunted me, because I thought I was wasting my potential. But in recent years after diligently just following my curiosity, eventually I discovered coaching. And I thought, This is it. The thing I meant to do at last, and yes, at last, but not the end, it was like I'd unlocked a whole new expansion pack and a video game of uncharted territory that brought its own uncertainties and challenges. And just as before, the same temptation to follow the shoulds is still their marketing strategies, content, calendars, copywriting best practices, branding, guidelines, pricing structures, all of that really killed the whole Eureka vibe I had going on. Through working with Brooke and understanding her framework of the five stages from rule follower to game changer. I can see now that in my search to find my purpose, I was seeking savior. Broke describes seeking Savior as the expectation that the quote, right way will gracefully deliver results. In my case, it was the expectation that finding my purpose would lead to clarity from then on. Here's why I share the story with you. dominant culture implies that purpose is simply what you do. To the point that what do you do is the default verbal handshake when meeting someone new, but in my business, I've learned that for all the importance of the what coaching the how is what actually brings me day to day fulfillment, the literal activities of what I do every day. So while I searched my whole life for my purpose, I've learned that feeling fulfilled is what I truly wanted all along. And fulfillment resides in the how Not the what. So if you're out there and you're wondering, what happens when you're not feeling fulfilled by your purpose driven business, I want you to remember that your business may be what you do. But even more critical is how you do it, specifically doing it in a sustainable and aligned way. As a result of that learning, I've embraced practice itself. I used to recoil from the word practice, because I thought, doing something with the expectation that I would never master it sounded like my personal hell. I used to define myself by what I had mastered. My mastery was my identity. I grew up playing classical music, which meant I learned practice makes perfect. As in, we practice, in order to achieve perfection. After a number of years, once I understood that purpose is not a destination, I was able to accept that we never really arrive. And that has allowed me to surrender to the true nature of practice, not for perfection, but for wellbeing and progress. As a result, the stakes that I've been holding at their absolute maximum, have lowered to a level I can be proud of, without being stressed by.