Episode 6

Define Your Purpose

In today’s episode we share the 2nd practice in our 9-part series designed to help you lead a more purposeful life as we explore Ashish’s book, “Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life,” a modality that walks you through nine simple practices used to change your life in just a few minutes a day.

In an earlier episode, we talked about cultivating self-awareness. 


Today, we explore Defining your Purpose. We will discuss the importance of purpose in our lives and why we all should find and follow it. 


Ashish will reveal the key to unlocking your ikigai, the Japanese secret to a long and happy life and, in the end, he will share an amazing quote that will change your life and inspire you to take the next step in your journey. 


You can integrate meaning into any profession and discover how to find ways to introduce and integrate what you love into where you work and much more.


If you feel stressed, burnt out, disillusioned or even undervalued at work, this episode will help you overcome these issues and start living a happier and more fulfilling life! 


Enjoy!


What You’ll Learn in this Show:

  • Why do we need to find purpose and meaning in life?
  • What is the ikigai concept and how we can unlock our ikigai?
  • How to find ways to introduce and integrate what you love into where you work?
  • To find your purpose you have to turn inwards
  • How you can make a difference in the world
  • And so much more...


Resources:

Happinesssquad.com 

@MyHappinessSquad Instagram

Ashish Kothari LinkedIn

Anil Ramjiani LinkedIn

Happiness Squad Youtube Channel


Book:

Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life

About the Podcast

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The Happiness Squad Podcast with Ashish Kothari
Unlock your full potential with the Happiness Squad podcast! Host Ashish Kothari, Founder & CEO, brings leading experts to help you live with more joy, health, love, and meaning. Discover the art and science of happiness to live and operate at your best.

About your host

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Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Happiness Squad, a company focused on democratizing happiness and touching a billion+ lives over the next 20 years and helping them live with more joy, health, love, and meaning.

Prior to founding Happiness Squad and writing his best-selling book “Hardwired for happiness”, Ashish spent 25 years in consulting, including the last 17 at McKinsey and Co, a premier management consulting firm, helping thousands of clients and their organizations achieve breakthrough performance by building new mindsets and capabilities.

Ashish is a trained ontological coach and a lifelong student of human thriving.