Your purpose is what drives you – not just what you’re driven towards.

That energy has to go somewhere. You have all of this energy inside of you that should be applied toward something important to you, but it isn’t. So instead, you might be the person who monopolizes dinner party conversations. You might be the person who big dogs others in conversation. You might let small details like getting the wrong order at a restaurant ruin your night, and make it your mission to get the server fired. All of that is just your wasted energy that you didn’t put towards a passion. You are looking for other, silly ways to assert yourself.

One of the top reasons people claim a relationship didn’t work out is that the other person changed. When I pry a little further, I usually find out that circumstances in the ex’s life were changing at the time—circumstances usually pertaining to their work, or any pursuits they had outside the relationship. If you’re someone […]