Purpose and Living Life on Your Terms with Sean Rosensteel - a podcast by Jessica Sun

What am I doing with my life? Where is this all going? If you are asking yourself these questions and seeking purpose, give this episode a listen. Learn about what it looks like to live intentionally and how to do it.

Sean is the author of The School of Intentional Living and founder of The Intentional Living Academy. Sean found himself bankrupt at the age of 28 after following conventional wisdom all his life. Now, he hopes to inspire and empower others to achieve their dreams and live the lives they truly deserve.

Quotes to remember: 

“You have to experience a little bit of a fall… before it can propel you to that next place.” 

“It’s not about just growth for growth’s sake or improving the grades for improvement’s sake; it’s about getting that awareness.”

Takeaways:

• Some of our biggest blessings are our biggest failures
• It takes great pain to be ready to make changes
• The number one regret of the dying is that people wish they had lived true to themselves rather than what others expected of them
• When we shift the questions we ask ourselves, we shift in a big way
• Defining what we want is often re-defining what we wanted
• We forget to weigh the risks of staying put
• There are warning signals in our lives when something we do is not normal or okay in certain groups, or we feel guilt or shame
• Feed your mind like you feed your body
• We have the responsibility to be the expert and guru of our own life

What you’ll learn:

• What happened when Sean failed at the “conventional path to success”
• What bankruptcy looks like not only in the financial aspect of our life
• How to define what you want for yourself, not what others expect of you
• What it means to live with purpose
• Death is coming; how to be “mortality-motivated”
• What school can teach us about setting up our lives, where stakes are much higher
• How to play the long game in our habits and gaining awareness around what we are doing
• Balancing is an act, not a place

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.seanrosensteel.com/
• The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms
• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - Bronnie Ware
• The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

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