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How to Discover Your Purpose in Business and Life You might not know it right now, but once you discover it, it's time to take on your quest.

By Lewis Howes Edited by Dan Bova

This story originally appeared on Lewis Howes

What is your purpose?

May be hard to know or answer right now. But once you discover it, it's time to take on your quest.

Our next guest realized he wanted to visit every country in the world. It took him years, lots of financial resources and sacrifice with other things along the way to complete it. In this interview we discuss his journey and why having a quest provided him so much life purpose and meaning.

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In This Episode, You Will Discover:

  • How and why Chris decided to journey to every country in the world
  • World record setting and the World Domination Summit
  • The process of writing $100 Dollar Start-up and freedom businesses
  • Defining a Quest
  • Where the possibility lies in questing
  • Questions to ask before starting your greatness quest
  • Stories of outrageous quests in The Happiness of Pursuit
  • Intellectual awareness of mortality vs. emotional awareness of mortality
  • The commonalities of people who go on great quests
  • How Chris dealt with judgement while traveling to every country in the world
  • The role of sub-goals in keeping the momentum of a great quest
  • The biggest skill Chris learned from completing his quest (It's a surprise)
  • Plus much more…
Lewis Howes

New York Times Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, Coach

Lewis Howes is a New York Times bestselling author of The School of Greatness and The Mask of Masculinity. He is a lifestyle entrepreneur, high performance business coach and keynote speaker. A former professional football player and two-sport All-American, he is a current USA Men’s National Handball Team athlete. He hosts a top 100 iTunes ranked Apple podcast, The School of Greatness. Howes was recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30. Details magazine called him one of “5 Internet Guru’s that can Make You Rich.”  Howes has been featured on Ellen, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, People, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health and other major media outlets.

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