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I keep coming back to a zoom call of a few months ago. An ordinary man who pricked into my conscience. By day he works with processes, people and numbers. By night he works on the streets.
None of this on its own will bring global change, but it will change the lives of the people he works with, rippling beyond his first degree relationships.
In his spare time, outside of professional and family time, he helps the homeless with food parcels, offering connection and support.
It is said that the confluence of what you love and what the world needs reveals your life purpose.
Here is a man who has taken the word ‘world’ and fashioned it into something smaller.
He has shaped a corner in which he can make a significant difference. He has carved out spaces which add value to others. His leadership serves, aligned to his values and what he believes is needed, the gap he has seen.
His purpose, it would seem, is aligned to service. His purpose is about making the lives of other people better. It emerges from his values, what he loves, and what he observes is needed most in his corner.
It is not a purpose that is self-serving in its focus.
In your own corner of the world, can you see something that is needed that might be met by what you love and value most?
