From the Heart – The Inside Job of Living a Life of Purpose, Creativity, and Impact – Details, episodes & analysis

It's a cultural value system that when things "go wrong" we perceive them as "bad." It's a paradigm to expect life to go smoothly and successfully all of the time. Perhaps it does for some people. For many, it's riddled with grief, trauma, difficulty, broken relationships. It's a painful paradigm to carry of constantly broken expectations. Looking at the world as a series of experiences from which to grow, learn, and evolve from. It's a different way to interpret the world. Things go wrong sometimes and "wrong" is just a lens - it's a filter and a judgment. How does everything change when you see each event as a lesson or as a calling? 

Big goals aren't always a good idea. Tiny habits are better. In this episode, I talk through the power of small daily habits that grow into substantial changes over years. Stuff takes time. It takes lots and lots of time. There is great power to adopting a single small daily habit that accrues into the sort of person you want to be. Commit to the habit and let God and the habit forge the way. 

There's an enormous culture around personal success and entrepreneurship that is all about what you can achieve and get out of life. I think we need to switch it around and focus on what we can give. There's so much to a life devoted to contribution. 

It's easy to come up with an idea and then try and sell it. The thing is, there are loads of ideas to be discovered when you look deeply into a system. The trick is to ask a lot of questions and to listen. 

When famed screenwriter, Alan Ball, gave his first screenplay for the TV show Six Feet Under to HBO, then came back and said, "It's great, but can you make it a bit more fucked up?' It's some of the best creative advice I've ever heard. So many projects are so paralyzingly safe, vanilla, and wooden. It doesn't have to be like that. 

We often hear that to live sustainability we need to "go without" or "give up" many of modern life's luxuries. I think there's a better way to think about it. When we strip the unnecessary junk out of life, what we are left with is the definition of elegance. 

We often hear the phrase "A duty of care," but what about a "Duty of Kindness"? We all need to practice being kind to others and to the children we raise. 

Just about everywhere, there's a message to "follow your dreams." But is it good advice? Dreams can be easily polluted all sorts of other people's toxic cravings for success and prestige.

Do spend time every week diving into your creative genius zone and your highest purpose?

Do you spend time every week cleaning up your demons for ignoring them? 

I call this the spiritual bell curve.

The only way to get to the place you want is to let all attachment and need for it go.