Help Me Be Me Ep 258: Hello Soul: Designing your life around meaning and purpose
Sep 12, 2025
Explore the art of designing a life rich in meaning and purpose. Discover how the right environment and relationships recharge your spirit. Delve into the metaphor of driving in fog, focusing on incremental steps toward self-discovery. Hear about journaling prompts to uncover your core qualities and envision a fulfilling future. Emphasizing presence, this conversation encourages reclaiming your childhood spirit while fostering gratitude for those who support you. It’s all about returning to your true self, one deliberate choice at a time.
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Design Life Around What Energizes You
- Life drifts unconscious unless you deliberately design it around what truly energizes you.
- Sarah Mae Bates urges returning to yourself by recalibrating energy, people, and schedule to match your needs.
Focus On Today Like Driving In Fog
- You only need to see as far as your headlights; focus on making deliberate choices for today.
- Sarah Mae Bates advises being intentional about the present instead of trying to map the whole journey.
Host Realizes She Trains For A Never-Coming Sport
- Sarah Mae Bates observed she treats herself like an athlete training for a sport that never arrives.
- That perspective revealed she also needs more leisure and ritualistic care.
