Purposeful Hustle: Direct Your Life's Work Towards Making a Positive Impact

By Deanna Singh

Purposeful Hustle helps you answer the question: "How do I use my talents, skills, and resources to create a greater impact?"
To be an effective change maker, you have to blend intentional thought (Purpose) with intentional action (Hustle). When engaging in Purposeful Hustle, you are directing your life's work toward intentionally making a positive impact in the world. Therefore, a Purposeful Hustler is someone who exists in the world with the ultimate goal of creating change!
Storytelling is used throughout the book as a way to bring essential lessons and concepts to life. You will be given action-oriented reflection questions at the end of each chapter, alongside practical tools that are aimed at putting intention into motion. In addition to walking you through a step by step guide to naming your Purpose, Deanna will teach you how to build the four competencies that every Purposeful Hustler needs!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543987959

Deanna Singh

Artell Smith is Principal and Managing Director of WatchWorks Management Consulting LLC, and Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Professional and Executive Development with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, where he facilitates classes for managers, leaders, and executives. Artell has worked for several industry leaders in senior human resources and talent management positions over the course of his nearly 40 years in business, including two assignments as Chief Human Resources Officer.

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PART ONE:

Purposeful

Finding the Force that Drives Us

CHAPTER ONE:

Purpose

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

-Gautama Buddha

Each of us has a purpose, though yours may not be crystal clear to you yet. Maybe that’s why you started reading these pages. Don’t worry! One of the focuses of this book is to help you clarify and articulate your purpose. Typically, clarity of purpose is not bestowed upon us in a single moment, and because of that, it can be difficult to pinpoint. Instead, it comes to us in waves throughout our lives. In order to recognize those waves, you have to put on your purpose goggles and reflect back on the moments in your life when you felt connected to something that encompassed your entire being and simultaneously felt bigger than yourself.

But what is this purpose I keep talking about and why is it so important?

Let’s start with some clarity around the word purpose. The dictionary defines purpose as the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. When we talk about individual purpose, it means the same thing—an individual’s purpose is the reason for which that person exists or was created. In my mind, purpose goes beyond personal motives (making money, getting a promotion, buying a fancy new car), and reaches outward to others, focusing on the betterment of the world. When I refer to purpose throughout this book, I am talking about this larger kind of purpose—the kind that stretches beyond the self and strives to make a positive