This all started because of a star word. What is a star word? It is a word written on a star and handed out by our church around epiphany. Mine for last year was cheer. My life in 2025 was anything but cheerful. The one they gave me this year is purpose. That one isn’t as difficult. It isn’t easy either.
I’ve never considered myself a purpose driven person. When someone asks me to know my why I tell them I’m more concerned with how. My focus is often on the pragmatic details and not the reason for them. The most important step is the next one. Why you take it is irrelevant.
You can make a lot of nonsense out of whys. I’ve read entire books of this type of nonsense. People pretending to be thought leaders and giving lots of fluff with no substances. Setting up scenarios people should follow to, “level up.” It all feels like a pile of crap wrapped in buzz words.
Real purpose, real drive, is important. It is important to have a reason for your actions. It also sells a little better saying we do this because we believe in this other thing. That is the purpose. Why we do our actions. At times it feels like people expect to find a purpose and suddenly have all the answers. But a why without a how is meaningless. Both are important, but if there is just one to have the how is the more important.
This is my mindset. So, you can see, while the word purpose isn’t as challenging as cheer, it still comes with several unique challenges. I could become one of these thought leaders telling people to take the next 90 days to focus their purpose and intent to scale their actualization to the next level. That would be dishonest to myself. Real purpose requires action not just thought, and that is the challenge for 2026. What is the purpose behind my actions. In other words stop shooting blind and start going somewhere with purpose.
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