Sahil Bloom

There's no meaning.

It's not a meaningful hard thing.

It's not a meaningful struggle.

Parenting is a very meaningful struggle, right?

Like it is the most meaningful struggle, I would argue.

Love, relationships, meaningful struggle, hard conversations, being present along that journey.

Finding work that you find to be a meaningful struggle, something that you need to endure challenges and struggle now in order to create benefit later and to get better at that game over periods of time.

That, to me, is where a lot of our happiness is unlocked.

And so what I try to find and seek out in my own life is what are those few missions, if you will, that I can identify, that I can play for a long, long time and be alongside people I really love on those missions?

And so I kind of think of my life along three missions.

I think I have a professional mission, creating ripples in the world with this content that I'm putting out, with the books that I write, with the speaking that I do.

I have a personal mission around my health and the pursuits that I have physically that I'm going after and doing.

and also mentally with some of the challenges I'll take on.

And then I have a family and sort of relationship mission, which is the people that I love and helping them live their most fulfilled best lives.

I sort of think of my life around those missions and think about the meaningful struggle associated with each.

And if things don't fall into one of those three missions, I basically say no to those things.

Yeah, I had this realization a few years ago.

I took up running as sort of a new pursuit.

I had always, I played baseball in college.

I got a scholarship to play out at Stanford and that had always been sort of my physical pursuit.