Jim Murphy

Well, first of all, we need to stop all the busyness.

So stop all the thinking and all the doing and stop all that for a day or two.

And then think deeply about your life purpose and why you're here on this earth and how can you move towards that when you go back to your regular life.

There's a question that I like to ask at the end of every year is what good reason do you have to not change every single thing in your life?

Because obviously if you don't have a good reason, then why aren't you changing it?

And to me, that question says, you should look at every single thing that you're doing and don't just reevaluate it.

Does this line up with my purpose?

Most people don't have a clear purpose.

So first of all, we need to have a clear purpose for your life.

Otherwise, you're going to get so distracted and so busy because it's too hard to sit with yourself and your thoughts.

My purpose is to share God's love, wisdom, and courage with the world and with athletes and leaders around the world.

It's interesting you say religion.

I grew up, and my mom is full Japanese.

Her family became a Christian family when her father was dying.

And, well, it kind of started with, I talked about this in the book, with the samurai and how my great-great-grandfather, his father died.

was a samurai when the samurai era ended.

He became an alcoholic because he lost all his power.

And so his son started to think about, well, what is the meaning of life?

And he realized that he wanted to live a life where he empowered others instead of having power over others.

And that kind of changed the trajectory of my life, you know, obviously my mom's life.