Find Your Purpose

What's the Purpose of Empathy?

People love to romanticize empathy. But do they ever act on it?

Begin with a purpose, start with a smile.

Smile break images for a classroom or staff brain break.

How the Brain Forgets on Purpose

Researchers implicate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in in our ability to actively forget a memory.

Can You Forget Things on Purpose?

Memory’s ungovernable, a ceaseless shaming pain: you’re either scrambling to retrieve it (rooting around for keys, or the name of some acquaintance) or you’re scrambling away from it, wishing it wouldn’t toss up, for the seven hundredth time, this or that miserable incident (deaths, bad dates, awkward elevator talk, trauma beyond the scope and tone of this parenthetical, etc.). Eternal Sunshine posited a medical remedy for…

When You Knew Your Purpose

Do you know your purpose now? When we are children, we are frequently more in touch with the nature of the purpose we hoped to accomplish this particular lifetime. By going back in our memories, we can often recall many activities that magnetically drew our attention. There may have been many hopes, dreams, and fantasies…

How your perspective serves a purpose: Youday!

Coach LaMonte helps us see how our perspective can problem solve.

Speaking of Psychology: Does Nostalgia Have a Psychological Purpose?

Krystine Batcho, PhD, is an expert on nostalgia and developed the Nostalgia Inventory, a survey that assesses proneness to personal nostalgia.

4 Life-Changing Benefits of Having a Purpose

Do you know where you’re going? And do you have a plan to get there? If you don’t, you’re likely to be forever drifting from one thing to another – without making any genuine progress in your life. A purpose is what you need! It is something for you to aim towards and something for […]

Having a purpose in life can affect how long you live

How Helping Others Gave Me Purpose When I Was Depressed

"Even if you feel depressed and feel hopeless yourself, you can make an impact."

How to Help My Young Adult Find their Purpose

Watch for the spark, talk about goals, and other ways you can play a supportive role in helping your kid find their purpose.

When Life Stops—Finding Hope & Purpose In Spite of Chronic Pain

Life can shrink so swiftly in the face of chronic pain and illness. While trying to manage and cope with all the challenges, perplexing symptoms, unpredictable limitations, and exhausting explanations, it can swallow up all else. Yet one of the finest tools for living well in spite of it is in finding ways to gently expand your life — find purpose despite the pain — no matter how slender or unattainable that may currently seem. Without purpose, we are simply existing — not…

7 Things to Tell Your Children About The Purpose in Life

As a parent you bear the responsibility to tell your children how to find the purpose in life and be successful by imparting valuable lessons. Here are some

10 Valuable Life Lessons to Learn from Children — Purpose Fairy

There are so many valuable life lessons you can learn from children. So much wisdom you can receive from these pure and innocent beings.

The Powerful Purpose of Introverts: Why the World Needs You to Be You

Licensed counselor and bestselling author Holley Gerth shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Powerful Purpose of Introverts.

How to Help Teens Find Purpose, by Patrick Cook-Deegan

"Research shows that teens and young adults that seek purpose report higher life satisfaction and levels of happiness. New research even suggests that a feeling of purpose in young people is associated with better physical health." In this piece Patrick Cook-Deegan explores the power of transformative experiences in helping teenagers find their purpose.