We're all on a quest to find our own direction in life. We're all asking the same kinds of questions about what we should be doing with our lives, but we want more than a job. We want to make a meaningful impact. We don't want to just make money. We want to make a difference. 

We want our lives to count for something. We want our work to matter. 

And that means that we are looking for purpose. 

It's not always clear what comes next. It's not always obvious how to get to where we want to be from where we are right now, especially when we don't even necessarily know where we want to be. 

But purpose is emergent. It grows over time as a by-product of our deepest values. 

The purpose grounded life is centered on cultivating this growth. 

This is a path focused less on goals to strive for and accomplishments to achieve and focused more on the kind of person that we want to become. 

And this means that purpose isn't something that we discover so much as we develop it. It doesn't hit us like a bolt of lightning where all of a sudden everything makes sense. 

Purpose emerges over time. We cultivate it. We develop it. It emerges as a product of our values. And that's not a one-time thing. This isn't a one-time something out there someplace that if I could reach for that, or if I could attain it, or strive for that thing out there some place, then my life would be successful. 

Purpose emerges as a by-product of our inward reflection of our inward work of who we are as a person. 

So purpose is about values.