You Don’t Have to Change The World to Create Impact

Having a mission of service is one of the most critical components of a meaningful life.

It’s my 3rd C in the 3 C’s of Meaningful Reinvention; the first two are Connection and Creation.

In Simon Sinek’s vernacular, a mission is your “Why?”

Why are you taking the actions you’re taking, particularly when those actions most likely (if they’re to be meaningful and drive fulfillment) drive you out of your comfort zone?

Having a mission is what makes leaving your comfort zone tenable.

Because when we break free from our cozy and comfortable lives and seek life beyond our comfort zone, we will experience a wave of emotions.

These emotions can be fear, shame, guilt, embarrassment, and feeling like a phony, to name a few.

Even writing them feels heavy, let alone experiencing them. They’re burdens on our backs, and without a mission of deeper service and meaning, they are often heavy enough to stop us in our tracks.

Creating yet another time in our lives where we started and stopped a meaningful action before it had a chance to come to fruition. We start stacking enough of these starts and stops together, and before we know it, we become the person who,