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.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You just stop them. Go Wait, did I use the bathroom? Yes?
I did, because I used the bathroom at the same time.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
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 then you know,
what do I do?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Do I watch the same thing every night? Do I
What habits are we getting into? They're standing in the
way of us really having momentum and purpose in our lives.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is this making sense?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
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 4 (01:11):
Are you asking us this?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, and you know, yeah, absolutely I am, and everyone
and myself go ahead.
Speaker 4 (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 answer, right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
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 6 (01:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, When you say that you're happy with our you are,
consider that an accomplishment. You know you've obviously done something
right and you've maneuvered correctly to get you where you
are to this place of happiness?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Are you are? But are you happy with just staying
right here?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, no, no, exactly like there's got.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Any more right line. You're you're in, where you should
be in your race trying to improve every day.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
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 the
(02:42):
same direction every day? Is it good to zig and
zag from time to time to learn new things?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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 and 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
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.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
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 right, Gandhi. There's times Danielle is like, oh, she
went to the game, she would do this, she did that.
Speaker 4 (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,
I Danielle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Daniel exhausted me too.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
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 4 (03:59):
Yeah, I like. 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 at 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. I think that's fun.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Out of here without you know, another battle or or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But if we 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,
right yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I of 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 suppose 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?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh no, 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,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
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 recognize that and try to
(05:49):
zig and zag a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
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 so fish for wanting more because I feel like,
hasn't the world given me enough?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Shouldn't I be content where I am? So you should
just pull up your tent and take off what?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
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.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Can now you can be thankful, but then want more
strive for more, work harder, want to progress.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But then that other voice hits me and says, you're
being selfish for wanting more.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just be grateful now, 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.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And I don't think there's.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Want to spend more time with your family like little things.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I've been doing that.
Speaker 3 (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 that where
you find your For instance, when Gandi paints another painting, Wow, wow,
(07:03):
her purpose for that day check.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You know, and really happy. It makes me happy to
finish something and deliver it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
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 bounce things off of.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (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 any thing interesting? Because I have to
do all these things? Well, you find the time. You
(08:03):
have to get it to yourself. It sounds simpler than
it is. But and there you go. You guys ready
for a weekend?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, let's go. Can we just play music for the
next hour and please out.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Everybody you guys wanted to do Flush the format jock jams.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From the nineties.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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 6 (08:34):
By
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So you woke up this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You just stop them. Go Wait, did I use the bathroom? Yes?
I did, because I used the bathroom at the same time.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
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 then you know,
what do I do?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Do I watch the same thing every night? Do I
What habits are we getting into? They're standing in the
way of us really having momentum and purpose in our lives.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is this making sense?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
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 4 (01:11):
Are you asking us this?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, and you know, yeah, absolutely I am, and everyone
and myself go ahead.
Speaker 4 (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 answer, right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
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 6 (01:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, When you say that you're happy with our you are,
consider that an accomplishment. You know you've obviously done something
right and you've maneuvered correctly to get you where you
are to this place of happiness?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Are you are? But are you happy with just staying
right here?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, no, no, exactly like there's got.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Any more right line. You're you're in, where you should
be in your race trying to improve every day.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
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 the
(02:42):
same direction every day? Is it good to zig and
zag from time to time to learn new things?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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 and 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
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.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
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 right, Gandhi. There's times Danielle is like, oh, she
went to the game, she would do this, she did that.
Speaker 4 (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,
I Danielle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Daniel exhausted me too.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
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 4 (03:59):
Yeah, I like. 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 at 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. I think that's fun.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Out of here without you know, another battle or or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But if we 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,
right yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I of 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 suppose 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?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh no, 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,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
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 recognize that and try to
(05:49):
zig and zag a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
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 so fish for wanting more because I feel like,
hasn't the world given me enough?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Shouldn't I be content where I am? So you should
just pull up your tent and take off what?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
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.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Can now you can be thankful, but then want more
strive for more, work harder, want to progress.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But then that other voice hits me and says, you're
being selfish for wanting more.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just be grateful now, 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.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And I don't think there's.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Want to spend more time with your family like little things.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I've been doing that.
Speaker 3 (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 that where
you find your For instance, when Gandi paints another painting, Wow, wow,
(07:03):
her purpose for that day check.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You know, and really happy. It makes me happy to
finish something and deliver it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
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 bounce things off of.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (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 any thing interesting? Because I have to
do all these things? Well, you find the time. You
(08:03):
have to get it to yourself. It sounds simpler than
it is. But and there you go. You guys ready
for a weekend?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, let's go. Can we just play music for the
next hour and please out.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Everybody you guys wanted to do Flush the format jock jams.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From the nineties.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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 6 (08:34):
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