Defining Your Life’s Purpose with Michael Seaver

What is so important about the clarity of purpose? 


It’s all about meeting a person’s need for personal growth and
development as well as the opportunity to contribute to something
bigger than yourself. Bottom line, it’s a direct
route to happiness and joy. 


Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, author,
keynote speaker, and podcast host with expertise in executive
leadership, personal branding, change management, organizational
effectiveness, and employee engagement. He is the author of
200+blogs, contributor to Forbes, and is a graduate of the
Thunderbird School of Global Management MBA. 


In this episode, Michael shares how to live at
your best on a day-to-day basis by focusing on
your top five personal core values. This is how
you become the authentic leader the world needs you to
be.  


What you will learn from this episode: 


Learn how to uncover your life’s purpose to grow and develop
yourself and add value to other people’s lives 

Find out how your clarity of purpose gives other people the
opportunity to authentically express themselves in meaningful
ways 

Discover about the essential ways of becoming an authentic
and emotionally intelligent leader who knows how to align and
empowers people to achieve a common goal 



“By being authentic, we're showing what our purpose is to
others. I think we give people that opportunity to express
themselves in a more authentic, deeply meaningful
way.”  


- Michael Seaver 


Topics Covered: 


01:57 - Defining your life’s purpose 


03:12 - Uncovering that purpose within us 


03:41 - What are the top two core human needs? 


04:25 - An internal work that leads to external benefits 


05:45 - Walking into our authentic power is not an overnight
success 


07:04 - The trap they fall into when leaders don’t have clarity
of life’s purpose 


10:02 - What triggers the shift to showing up authentic 


10:57 - Actionable tips to help you uncover clarity of
purpose 


12:15 - How to resolve values conflicts 


13:22 - For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose,
download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not
your Job’ and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the
Way’. Click
here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/ 


14:34 - As a teenager or in your early to mid-20s, what recurring
challenge were you confronted by?  


16:17 - The need to build emotional resilience to overcome the
challenge 


17:36 - Be the person you needed when you were younger 


Key Takeaways: 


“I think there's kind of that intuitive knowing that people are
going to gravitate to others who make them feel safe, who make
them feel like it's okay to take a calculated risk or who make
them feel, it's okay to show up as themselves and really express
themselves of their opinion in some sort of way.” 


“Leaders who don't know their life's purpose, they don't know how
to say no. And so, they become really poor at time management
that they over-commit to things that aren't necessarily right for
them.”  


“In the 21st-century work world, the command and control kind of
leadership style is passe. It’s about aligning and empowering
people these days.”  


Resources Mentioned:  


For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose,
download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not
your Job’ and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the
Way’. Click
here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/ 



Connect with Michael Seaver: 


Website: https://michaelsseaver.com 


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelScottSeaver 


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelsseaver/ 


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsseaver/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelsseaver