April 12, 2024 • 8 mins
It's a simple question - what is your purpose? Do you feel like you can improve on anything? Gen Z in a recent survey says they want more from their jobs and relationships, what can we learn from that?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So you woke up this morning and probably did the
same exact thing you did yesterday morning in the morning before,
at the same exact time. Probably, right. We are creatures
of habit in the mornings, right, Yeah. And it's easier
in the morning when you're still half asleep to be
in habit form, right, because things get done then you
just stop them. Go Wait, did I use the bathroom? Yes?
(00:25):
I did, because I use the bathroom. It's the same
I remember. So as you got out of bed, were
you thinking, like, what, what's the purpose of the day? Well, okay,
to brush my teeth, get on the road in time,
get to the office, check my email, you know it,
and then before you know it, it's five o'clock and
your day just kind of melted away. Right time to
go home, get in that traffic, you get home, and
(00:45):
then you know what do I do now? I watch
the same thing every night?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Do I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What habits are we getting into? They're standing in the
way of us really having momentum and purpose in our lives.
Is this making sense?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yes? Very much?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are you happy with your sense of purpose at work?
At school? Or in life?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Are you asking us this?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, and you know, yeah, absolutely I am, and everyone
and myself go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I would say I am happy with my purpose or
what I think my purpose is right now, but I
know that I could do better, and I know that
there is more purpose out there than just what I'm
doing now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you know what, I would have given the same exact.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Answer, right. It's easy to give the answer because it's true,
though what you're saying is I mean, it's true, Yeah, Foggy.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's impossible to be happy with where you are but
yet want to strive to have more. You can appreciate
where you are and think it's great, but at the
same time always trying to improve and do better. Well,
and I hate to use the term do better. I
don't really wanted to do better. No.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No, When you say that you're happy with or you are,
consider that an accomplishment. You know you've obviously done something
right and you maneuvered correctly to get you where you
are to this place of happiness. Are you are? But
are you happy with just staying right here?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, no, no, exactly like.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's got any more right line, You're you're in where
you should be in your race, trying to improve every.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Day exactly, so they're saying gen z ers are a
good example. Generation z always trying to find purpose at
work or school, and like, where are you in your life?
I mean, are you Are you feeling like your life matters?
Does your life have direction? Or is your direction just
(02:42):
the same direction every day? Is it good to zig
and zag from time to time to learn new things?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh? I think the zig and the zag is super important.
I get uncomfortable with comfort, which I know sounds weird,
but I feel like I'm much more comfortable in discomfort
when things are all out of and you don't really
know where it's going. So you have this chance every
day if it's that way to create new opportunities and
learn new things, whereas if I'm doing the same thing
(03:08):
all the time, that stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I feel like I wish there was more time in
the day because there's a lot of things during the
day you have to do, being a parent or being
you know, responsible for things, you have to do them,
and then we have all these things that were like, well,
I'd love to get that done as well. And if
if sometimes there's just not enough damn time to get
it all done. Amen, will add new things that you
really want to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's crazy, Amen. You know, in between the two of you,
Gandhi and Danielle, the two of you have, in my opinion,
it sure looks like a very full day every day. Danielle,
you know, gosh it right, Gandhi. There's times Danielle is like, oh,
she went to the game, she would do this, she
did that.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
She daniel exhausts me. I tell her that all the time,
just hearing her day. I'm like, I gotta take a nap.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I Danielle. Danielle exhausted me too. But Gandhi, you do
the same thing with your artwork, and you're you know,
you're always you seem to be doing stuff again of
all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I like being busy. I like having stuff to do.
I also like to sit on my couch and do nothing.
All of those things. I have to have the ability
to do it all. And then also, you know, just
go off the math completely and do something totally different,
you know, go on a vacation or do something that
I haven't done before.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I think that's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I think that that can be doing something different, maybe
that could be new purpose. My purpose is to do
something different than what I do every day. Yeah, we
have rehearsed this purpose for so many years. We have
it down, We've accomplished this purpose. The purpose is to
come in every day, do this show with each other,
try to get out of here without you know, another
battle or or something. I don't know. But if we
(04:38):
really truly enjoy each other's company, which is great, is
that enough? I would think that we would want to
try to do something beyond these walls.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Right yeah, And I have course, and there's still opportunity
even within these walls to do stuff that's different. I mean,
I've been having so much fun with my podcast because
we're talking about things that we don't talk about on
this show that I'm very interested in that we can
kind of dive into and expose a whole new audience
to all different types of things. So even here, there's
still opportunity to do it differently.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Finding your purpose is so important. Uh is it snowing
right now? Oh no, please tell me now. Okay, it's
just very white ring. Okay, never mind, But finding your purpose,
you know, it's something you have to practice several times
a day. If ever, you catch yourself just kind of
like dwindling away and like, Okay, I'm maybe taking that,
(05:27):
maybe not. I don't know. Wait wait, wait, hold on,
what's my purpose today? What is your purpose in life?
What's your overall purpose? It's your five year purpose, your
one year purpose, if you want to look at it
that way. I don't know, but you know, having purpose
is so important for you. It makes you want to
wake up tomorrow and live another day. But if you
get into the rut, you owe it to yourself to
(05:47):
recognize that and try to zig and zag a little bit. Yeah,
what's up, scary? I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I feel like there's more of a purpose out there
for me somewhere. But then I get feelings of I'm
feeling elfish for wanting more because I feel like, hasn't
the world given me enough? Shouldn't I be content where
I am?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So you should just pull up your tent and take
off what?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, No, I'm meaning like, I feel like there's got
to even more of a purpose. But then I'm like,
I should just be thankful for everything I've accomplished and
where I am now.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can be thankful, but then want more, strive for more,
work harder to progress.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But then that other voice hits me and says, you're
being selfish for wanting more. Just be grateful now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We Purpose doesn't necessarily mean you're you're collecting more things
or getting more material stuff. Purpose could just be, hey,
I want to save an animal or do something like that,
and I don't think there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Spend more time with your family like that, right little things.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I've been doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But you know it's there's nothing wrong with being grateful
with what you have. But does does it mean okay,
I'm grateful. I can stop now and well no. But
also keep in mind when you find purpose in your
life a lot of the times, a lot of the time,
it will it will radiate out and give other people
happiness or joy, or you're helping people out where you
find For instance, when Gandhi paints another painting, wo wow,
(07:03):
her purpose for that day? Check. I know, but someone's
going to get that painting and hanging on their wall,
and now look at them. Their light is their life
is now full of color, you know, and really happy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It makes me happy to finish something and deliver it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I love it. I love it. Feel like your life
matters because it does. But as far as finding direction
in your life, well, you're in charge of that. That's
your responsibility and no one else's. You can't wait for
someone else to give you give you direction. You can
have people help you find your direction, maybe through counseling,
through a therapist, through a good friend who's great to
(07:38):
bounce things off of.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So today the challenge is to roll into the weekend
and find some purpose you may have, just like Daniel saying,
not enough hours in the day. And you know I
was looking. I shared you with you, guys my freaking
list for the weekend. It's like good, It's almost you
feel like you're drowning because you how do I have
time to do anything interesting? Because I have to do
all these things? Well, you find the time. You have
(08:04):
to get it to yourself. It sounds simpler than it is.
But and there you go. You guys ready for a weekend? Yeah,
let's go. Can we just play music for the next
hour and please out everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You guys wanted to do Flush the format jock jams
from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh, I know, Flush the format just takes so much effort.
All right, we'll put something together we continue with the day,
we have a little more time left together, and then
the weekend is here.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So you woke up this morning and probably did the
same exact thing you did yesterday morning in the morning before,
at the same exact time. Probably, right. We are creatures
of habit in the mornings, right, Yeah. And it's easier
in the morning when you're still half asleep to be
in habit form, right, because things get done then you
just stop them. Go Wait, did I use the bathroom? Yes?
(00:25):
I did, because I use the bathroom. It's the same
I remember. So as you got out of bed, were
you thinking, like, what, what's the purpose of the day? Well, okay,
to brush my teeth, get on the road in time,
get to the office, check my email, you know it,
and then before you know it, it's five o'clock and
your day just kind of melted away. Right time to
go home, get in that traffic, you get home, and
(00:45):
then you know what do I do now? I watch
the same thing every night?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Do I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What habits are we getting into? They're standing in the
way of us really having momentum and purpose in our lives.
Is this making sense?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yes? Very much?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are you happy with your sense of purpose at work?
At school? Or in life?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Are you asking us this?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, and you know, yeah, absolutely I am, and everyone
and myself go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I would say I am happy with my purpose or
what I think my purpose is right now, but I
know that I could do better, and I know that
there is more purpose out there than just what I'm
doing now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you know what, I would have given the same exact.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Answer, right. It's easy to give the answer because it's true,
though what you're saying is I mean, it's true, Yeah, Foggy.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's impossible to be happy with where you are but
yet want to strive to have more. You can appreciate
where you are and think it's great, but at the
same time always trying to improve and do better. Well,
and I hate to use the term do better. I
don't really wanted to do better. No.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No, When you say that you're happy with or you are,
consider that an accomplishment. You know you've obviously done something
right and you maneuvered correctly to get you where you
are to this place of happiness. Are you are? But
are you happy with just staying right here?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, no, no, exactly like.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's got any more right line, You're you're in where
you should be in your race, trying to improve every.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Day exactly, so they're saying gen z ers are a
good example. Generation z always trying to find purpose at
work or school, and like, where are you in your life?
I mean, are you Are you feeling like your life matters?
Does your life have direction? Or is your direction just
(02:42):
the same direction every day? Is it good to zig
and zag from time to time to learn new things?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh? I think the zig and the zag is super important.
I get uncomfortable with comfort, which I know sounds weird,
but I feel like I'm much more comfortable in discomfort
when things are all out of and you don't really
know where it's going. So you have this chance every
day if it's that way to create new opportunities and
learn new things, whereas if I'm doing the same thing
(03:08):
all the time, that stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I feel like I wish there was more time in
the day because there's a lot of things during the
day you have to do, being a parent or being
you know, responsible for things, you have to do them,
and then we have all these things that were like, well,
I'd love to get that done as well. And if
if sometimes there's just not enough damn time to get
it all done. Amen, will add new things that you
really want to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's crazy, Amen. You know, in between the two of you,
Gandhi and Danielle, the two of you have, in my opinion,
it sure looks like a very full day every day. Danielle,
you know, gosh it right, Gandhi. There's times Danielle is like, oh,
she went to the game, she would do this, she
did that.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
She daniel exhausts me. I tell her that all the time,
just hearing her day. I'm like, I gotta take a nap.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I Danielle. Danielle exhausted me too. But Gandhi, you do
the same thing with your artwork, and you're you know,
you're always you seem to be doing stuff again of
all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I like being busy. I like having stuff to do.
I also like to sit on my couch and do nothing.
All of those things. I have to have the ability
to do it all. And then also, you know, just
go off the math completely and do something totally different,
you know, go on a vacation or do something that
I haven't done before.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I think that's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I think that that can be doing something different, maybe
that could be new purpose. My purpose is to do
something different than what I do every day. Yeah, we
have rehearsed this purpose for so many years. We have
it down, We've accomplished this purpose. The purpose is to
come in every day, do this show with each other,
try to get out of here without you know, another
battle or or something. I don't know. But if we
(04:38):
really truly enjoy each other's company, which is great, is
that enough? I would think that we would want to
try to do something beyond these walls.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Right yeah, And I have course, and there's still opportunity
even within these walls to do stuff that's different. I mean,
I've been having so much fun with my podcast because
we're talking about things that we don't talk about on
this show that I'm very interested in that we can
kind of dive into and expose a whole new audience
to all different types of things. So even here, there's
still opportunity to do it differently.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Finding your purpose is so important. Uh is it snowing
right now? Oh no, please tell me now. Okay, it's
just very white ring. Okay, never mind, But finding your purpose,
you know, it's something you have to practice several times
a day. If ever, you catch yourself just kind of
like dwindling away and like, Okay, I'm maybe taking that,
(05:27):
maybe not. I don't know. Wait wait, wait, hold on,
what's my purpose today? What is your purpose in life?
What's your overall purpose? It's your five year purpose, your
one year purpose, if you want to look at it
that way. I don't know, but you know, having purpose
is so important for you. It makes you want to
wake up tomorrow and live another day. But if you
get into the rut, you owe it to yourself to
(05:47):
recognize that and try to zig and zag a little bit. Yeah,
what's up, scary? I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I feel like there's more of a purpose out there
for me somewhere. But then I get feelings of I'm
feeling elfish for wanting more because I feel like, hasn't
the world given me enough? Shouldn't I be content where
I am?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So you should just pull up your tent and take
off what?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, No, I'm meaning like, I feel like there's got
to even more of a purpose. But then I'm like,
I should just be thankful for everything I've accomplished and
where I am now.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can be thankful, but then want more, strive for more,
work harder to progress.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But then that other voice hits me and says, you're
being selfish for wanting more. Just be grateful now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We Purpose doesn't necessarily mean you're you're collecting more things
or getting more material stuff. Purpose could just be, hey,
I want to save an animal or do something like that,
and I don't think there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Spend more time with your family like that, right little things.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I've been doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But you know it's there's nothing wrong with being grateful
with what you have. But does does it mean okay,
I'm grateful. I can stop now and well no. But
also keep in mind when you find purpose in your
life a lot of the times, a lot of the time,
it will it will radiate out and give other people
happiness or joy, or you're helping people out where you
find For instance, when Gandhi paints another painting, wo wow,
(07:03):
her purpose for that day? Check. I know, but someone's
going to get that painting and hanging on their wall,
and now look at them. Their light is their life
is now full of color, you know, and really happy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It makes me happy to finish something and deliver it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I love it. I love it. Feel like your life
matters because it does. But as far as finding direction
in your life, well, you're in charge of that. That's
your responsibility and no one else's. You can't wait for
someone else to give you give you direction. You can
have people help you find your direction, maybe through counseling,
through a therapist, through a good friend who's great to
(07:38):
bounce things off of.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So today the challenge is to roll into the weekend
and find some purpose you may have, just like Daniel saying,
not enough hours in the day. And you know I
was looking. I shared you with you, guys my freaking
list for the weekend. It's like good, It's almost you
feel like you're drowning because you how do I have
time to do anything interesting? Because I have to do
all these things? Well, you find the time. You have
(08:04):
to get it to yourself. It sounds simpler than it is.
But and there you go. You guys ready for a weekend? Yeah,
let's go. Can we just play music for the next
hour and please out everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You guys wanted to do Flush the format jock jams
from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh, I know, Flush the format just takes so much effort.
All right, we'll put something together we continue with the day,
we have a little more time left together, and then
the weekend is here.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe
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