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What COVID19 is Teaching us about Purpose?


This article was originally published at BizCatalyst360.


I vividly remember stories after 9/11 where people changed the trajectory of their lives even if they were not impacted directly by the terrorist attack. Crises make us do that. They become eye-opening and thought-provoking milestones.


We lose someone we care about dearly at a young age; it stops us in our tracks to think twice about what to do with the rest of our lives. A disaster ruins our home; we realize what is most important in life. We see our loved ones being safe with us is more important than all the stuff we lost. There are many examples like these that get to be life-defining moments.


These life-altering decisions occur because these tragic events push people, mostly for the first time, to ask the very important and deep questions like:


Why am I here? What should I do with my life? What do I want my legacy to be?