How to Stop Overcomplicating Your Search for Purpose

The Visionary's Crossword: A Puzzle for The Timeless Path

My friends,

To make our week on "Building a New Vision & Purpose" a little more interactive and fun, I've created a crossword puzzle for you. All the clues are drawn from the concepts we've been exploring together in the Rekindle newsletter.

Take a few quiet moments to solve it. See it as a form of active reflection, a way to solidify the principles we've discussed. The answers are at the bottom, but I encourage you to try it on your own first!

We have spent this week on a deep and meaningful journey. We have explored values, service, mission, passion, and curiosity. It is easy, after a week like this, to feel that the search for purpose is a complex and intricate process.

But I want to close our time together with the simplest and most powerful truth I know: Purpose is found in the present moment.

We overcomplicate our search for purpose when we believe it is a destination we must arrive at in the future. We create complex plans, read endless books, and attend countless seminars, all in the hope of one day “finding” our purpose. We treat it like a treasure hunt.

But your purpose is not a treasure to be found; it is a choice to be made, right now, in this moment.

After all the frameworks, all the exercises, and all the reflection, it all comes down to this one question:

How can I be of service, to the person in front of me, right now?

That is it. That is the entire path.

If you are in a meeting, your purpose is to listen with your full attention. If you are with your child, your purpose is to be present and engaged. If you are responding to an email, your purpose is to be clear and helpful. If you are alone, your purpose may be to rest, to pray, or to be still.

Do not get lost in the complexity of a ten-year plan. Do not become paralyzed by the need for a perfect, grand vision. The most purposeful people I know are not those with the most elaborate plans, but those who are most present in the small moments of their day.

Your grand, life-long calling is simply the sum of thousands of these small, faithful, present-moment choices.

Your Only Exercise for Today (and Every Day):

As you move through your day, gently bring your attention back to the present moment. And ask that simple question: “How can I be of service right now?”

Answer that question with your actions, and you will never have to search for your purpose again. You will be living it.

Thank you for sharing this week with me. It has been an honor to walk this path with you.

Yours in service,

Winston