Living With Purpose

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” – Ecclesiastes 9:10 Recently, I heard a story about a man who built this amazing business and sold it to a private equity company. His share of the sale was fifty-seven million dollars, and he tells this amazing story of sitting in a hotel room, the money was supposed to be wired into his account. For the next hour, he continued to refresh his banking app to see if it showed up, and eventually, “BOOP” fifty-seven million dollars appeared. Wouldn’t that be cool? If that happened to me, I’d be ecstatic.    Upon receiving this return on investment, this amazing business creative said he felt nothing. He then felt sad. How could he be sad? All of his