Are you scared of living a ‘small life’?

The world tells us to go big.

Social media shows us people doing it all.

So we often turn to ‘purpose’ as the answer. The thinking goes that if we can just find our grand, world-changing purpose, our lives will finally have meaning.

But there’s a pattern I'm noticing, both in myself and in the people I walk with.

This search for a big purpose can often come from a place of fear. A quiet, deep-down feeling of not being ‘enough’. A hope that if we can just make some kind of difference, we might finally feel worthy of love and belonging.

But what if we’ve got it the wrong way round?

What if the journey isn’t about finding a ‘grand purpose’, but about living a 'normal' life that is purposeful?

Maybe it’s less about changing the world. More about changing yourself, and how you show up in it.
Less about YOU being the solution. More about finding a solution to be part of.

It’s a quiet shift.

From a lifetime of proving, to a lifetime of serving.

But a profound one.
And it starts from a place of knowing you’re already enough.

There’s a famous story of a cleaner at NASA in the 1960s. When the President visited and asked him what he was doing, he didn’t say “sweeping the floor.” He said, “I’m helping put a man on the moon.”

He wasn’t driven by recognition. He was grounded in joyful service, knowing that his role was essential.

Service starts from the heart. It's having hope. It’s believing that a better world is possible, and that we all have a role to play — whether big, small, known, or hidden.

So maybe this could be something interesting for us all to contemplate today…
What would change if we chose a lifetime of joyful service, instead of a lifetime of proving?