From: Calvin from Simplero <calvin@simplero.com>
Subject: News from Simplero

Dear Lovely Simplerista,

Happy Wednesday!

If you haven't yet found your life purpose, you'd do well to make it a priority in your life.

It's such a critical component to have an awareness of. For me, it happened in late February 2008.

Before that, I was a rudderless ship adrift at sea, nothing worked, and there was never much to build on, because everything I did went in completely different directions.

After that, I had a sense of direction, and everything started clicking and working together towards a bigger vision, even when it wasn't always obvious looking forward.

Your purpose is that thing that you love doing, that you could do all day long, without getting paid. It's something that has value and meaning to you and to other people. Not everybody, but some. Your tribe.

It's something that feels effortless and easy and natural, even though it may at this moment feel scary and very unfamiliar.

They say "Do what you love and the money will follow." I believe that is true. I believe that's how we're designed. Some people will mock that and say "well, I love to lie in a hammock and eat Mexican food". I say bullshit. If you really believe that's the depth of what you love to do, then you are very far removed from yourself indeed. That's not "love". That's numbing out, because you're not willing to feel yourself.

That's why finding and following your purpose is a true act of courage. These days you can buy a ticket to fly to outer space. But the inner travel you cannot pay your way out of with money. That journey can only be paid for with courage, willingness, and open mind, and an open heart. And most people just aren't willing to pay that price.

My biggest fear was that I wouldn't like my purpose. I was afraid I would find out I was a healer. That I was one of those soft men who could be vulnerable and share their inner emotions and, gasp!, even cry sometimes. Guess what? That's exactly who I was. I was trying to run away from it as fast as I could, and it didn't work.

Some people say the meaning of life is what you make of it. I think there's truth to that. But don't take that to mean that everything is relative. In my experience, purpose is not something you make up out of thin air. It's something you discover. There's an inarguable truth inside that you can choose to uncover and accept, or you can choose to ignore and run away from. The difference that choice makes is night and day, living versus surviving.

New Features in Simplero

We're working on some things we know you'll love, but nothing new to announce this week.

Random Links from around the Interwebs

Times are really changing, and changing fast. How would you feel if a camera-equipped drone just hovered right outside your windows for hours on end? The law currently says you can't do anything to it. What if was equipped with a weapon? Our laws just aren't designed to deal with the technology we have today.

Dilbert: The value of a startup idea.

TurboPascal was one of the first languages I programmed in. It was written by the Anders Hejlsberg, the brother of Thomas Hejlsberg whom my mom started a software company with in the early eighties. Yes, my mom is way hip.

Have a fantastic week.

Love,
-Calvin