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and the Natasha Bedingfield song you’ll hear in the background will be your clue. Nonsense.
    You should have it figured out by the time you’re 22 years old.
    Sure you will. And your SAT score matters a lot too. I can’t tell you how often my SAT score comes up as a 37-year-old. Seems like that’s the first thing anyone wants to know. People are always saying to me, “Your job experience looks great, love your resume, good references, but when I say, ‘Orange is to wrench as blue is to ________,’ what does that mean to you?” Most people don’t have their purpose figured out by 22.
    It changes everything instantly.
    Your step will be lighter. Colors will seem brighter. Even food will taste different once you find your purpose. You know how you don’t like the texture of strawberries? All those little bumpy things most people are able to ignore but you find disconcerting? Don’t worry about them. As soon as you find your purpose, everything changes, including how strawberries feel in your mouth.
    You have to know the finish line before you cross the starting line.
    In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , author Stephen Covey wrote that habit number two is “Begin with the end in mind.” 1 I completely agree. It’s good to keep the end in mind. But since that book came out, we’ve mutated that thought into: “Begin with the end in stone.” As if before you take a single step you have to know exactly what your final step will be. That’s the biggest lie of all when it comes to finding your purpose.
    The result of these lies is that most of us have forgotten something critical.
    Purpose is not a final destination.
    One of the worst things you can do is try to find your purpose in life. Nothing cripples you like trying to “find your purpose,” or “figure out your dream,” or “name your passion.”
    Regardless of the words you use, it’s all nonsense and none of it ever works. Here’s why:
    It puts tremendous pressure on you.
    So all you need to do right now is sit down with a blank piece of paper or an empty journal and come up with the one idea that will guide the rest of your time on this planet? Awesome.
    It becomes an idol.
    As soon as I find my purpose, the rest of my life will fall into place, my worries will vanish, and every morning I will bound out of bed with hope in my heart and jelly beans in my eyes.
    It stops you in your tracks.
    Until you find your one true purpose, you can’t get started on doing anything else. As soon as you get it, you’ll start sprinting, but until then, stay right where you are.
    For these reasons and more, I’m not a fan of “finding your purpose.” I’m a fan of “living with purpose.”
    Living with purpose allows you to:
    Start today.
    There’s no waiting period. It’s not a springboard. It’s a filter for everything you encounter every day. Waiting to find your purpose tomorrow is a great way to ensure you don’t live with purpose today.
    Start where you are.
    You can live with purpose as a dad, as an employee, as a college student, as a friend, or as anything else.
    Start on what matters to you.
    Why even pretend that you’re going to find one thing and one thing only that you love doing for the rest of your life at the exclusion of all others? Don’t get locked into a single purpose statement that suffocates you. Live with purpose and enjoy a thousand different passions as you continually walk the road to awesome.
    The reality is that many scientists believe our brains aren’t even done physically developing until we’re in our mid-20s. Therefore, the idea that a 19-year-old is capable of choosing a perfect major and a perfect purpose that guides the next fifty years of their life is absurd.
    And that’s just your brain. What about your heart? What about your passions? What about your dreams? When do those stop developing? Your mid-30s? Your mid-50s? Hopefully never. So then why do we think we’ll find a singular purpose that will guide