Nick Bare

You can't be God and never will be God.

You can't be the cause.

You can't be the purpose.

You can't be the meaning of not only your life, but everyone else's life.

That makes you selfish.

We have to get small in order to have a much larger cause that we are living for.

A purpose, a meaning, faith, family,

friends, and work.

Those are the four habits within our portfolio that contribute to our happiness.

I'm going to keep leaning into some of Arthur C. Brooks' work here for a second.

He also talks about the difference between complex and complicated problems that we experience in our life.

And I share this because I hope this gives some perspective of

why you may be struggling and why I have in the past struggled with feeling or experiencing fulfillment, contentment, because my purpose and meaning in life wasn't secure.

It wasn't rooted.

It did not have an identity.

Brooke says that there's two types of problems that we experience in life, complex and complicated, and they're different.

Complex issues or problems cannot be solved or fixed with technology apps or quick fixes.

They can only be experienced, managed, and lived daily.

Complicated problems have technical solutions, whereas complex problems are relational, emotional, and unpredictable.

Happiness and purpose are not puzzles to be solved, but rather ongoing, messy processes.