Julie
• Provides a backbone to support your actions
• Helps operationalize your values
• Can soften grief with perspective
• Connects you with others
• Helps illuminate qualities and characteristics of self that feel fulfilling and provide meaning.
• Begins the journey of building legacy “breadcrumb legacy”
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
Purpose does NOT have to be…
• Large scale – impacting millions of people
• Public or obvious to anyone other than you.
• A life-long pursuit.
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
Purpose does NOT have to be…
• The same thing as a passion.
• Completely original
• A privilege reserved for a select few
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
Purpose does NOT have to be…
• Impractical, philosophical or abstract.
• Clear and well-defined
• Self-serving, insular.
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
Purpose does NOT have to be…
• We have to get out there and find it – (yes and no)
• One thing.
• Unchanging - static across our lifetime
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
• What have you been proud of?
• Are there any new travelers on your life journey?
• How have you been influenced by others?
• Is your distress trying to teach you?
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
• Notice your calm and peaceful moments
• Notice when you feel energy and motivated
• Notice when you feel valued
• Review all the different and varied roles you have played throughout your life.
• Where did you find the most joy?
• How does this connect with the values that matter to you?
• Consider a different chapter of your life and how your perspective about that time might have changed with time.
• What might you learn in that shift?
• What wisdom do you lean into today that gives you a sense of…
• Calm. Pride. Gratitude. Generosity.
Julie Larson, LCSW – www.julielarsonlcsw.com
