Meet Rich Harris

While the latest in happiness research demonstrates that living every day with intention is our surest path to a more satisfying life, we are often overwhelmed and distracted by the pervasive influences at work in our environment. These influences span our earliest memories and upbringing all the way forward to the exact environmental surroundings that we’ve largely constructed and operate within today. They involve an overflowing collection of interactions with parents, siblings, friends, lovers, teachers, coaches, and influencers, as well as experiences that were deeply impactful and influential to the decisions we made thereafter. While some of these experiences are undoubtedly positive and affirming, others can unnecessarily alter or slow our path to our true potential and often go unnoticed, taking root in our subconscious. After our path is altered, we often find ourselves vigorously plodding through a life that fails to inspire us. Without true alignment with our purpose and passion, we can start to lack motivation or internal direction. We can feel lingering dissatisfaction in certain areas of our life, even when we may be operating at high levels of success by our own environment’s standards. This often serves to further confuse us—why am I feeling this way when things seem to be going so well?

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I believe one objective in life should be to strive to reach our true potential—to impact the world in our own special way. At some point in our lives, it is very likely that we will need a thoughtful shift or recalibration of what is important to us and where we want to go, filtering out some of the aforementioned (unproductive) environmental influences and raising our awareness of the negative thoughts, distortions, and behaviors that have taken root and are now holding us back or taking us off course. With this heightened awareness, we can then re-establish pure intentions in our lives. Our pure intentions represent the aspirations of our true self, unpolluted by the noise of our external environment or past traumatic experiences. They may lead to very simple life changes or more complex changes. We may decide on a new occupation, more time with family, or perhaps we will find more energy in our day-to-day life. Perhaps we will engage in a pursuit that’s been nagging at us for as long as we can remember.

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We know we have turned the corner when these pursuits occur without feelings of regret or longing for recognition (excessive ego-focus), even as our environment may actively try to pull us back to our former path. Feelings of self-assurance, increased energy, and independence all flow into our lives—a clear indication that we are back in alignment and the pursuit of our true potential lies before us.