Void to Purpose: How to Build Your Second Mountain

In the 1st half of our lives, we climbed the mountain we believed we needed to climb to be happy.

It was a mountain of “shoulds”, expectations, and the opinions of others.

It was a mountain of perceived safety.

We chase those “shoulds”, expectations, and opinions all the way to the summit.

And it feels great until we look around and realize everything we expected would be waiting for us isn’t there.

We feel empty, living with a success-sized hole in our lives, what Viktor Frankl aptly described as an “existential void.”

The emptiness hits us around the midpoint of our lives, and with the days in front of us shrinking as the days behind us grow, we want our lives to mean something.

We want a mission; we want something that gets us out of bed in the morning and fills us from the inside with connection, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment.

We need a new mountain, and it’s incumbent on us to build it.

Why?

That new mountain isn’t handed to us on a silver spoon because we feel empty inside.

There’s no department store called “Connection, Purpose, Mission, Meaning, Fulfillment and Beyond.”