The Work of Life is Inside: The Joy of Life is Outside

LifeBlood: The work of life is inside. The joy of life is outside.

We spend a lot of time searching outside ourselves for the missing piece—the relationship, money, success, recognition, accomplishment, or experience that will finally make us feel whole. But there’s no external solution to an internal problem.

The real work is inside: self-awareness, responsibility, forgiveness, discipline, humility, courage, and learning to understand ourselves. But we shouldn’t mistake the work for the life.

The purpose of becoming a healthier, stronger, more complete person isn’t endless introspection. It’s becoming more capable of loving, connecting, contributing, serving, creating, and being fully present with other people.

And since none of us gets to disappear into the woods until we’ve figured ourselves out, we have to learn to be doing while we’re becoming.

This episode explores what it means to live from the inside out, why everyone you meet is an unfinished human being, and how doing the inner work can help us more fully experience the joy waiting outside ourselves.

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