On Purpose with Jay Shetty
5 steps To Find Your Purpose (The Fast Track To Build The Life You Want)
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
What excites you the most in life? When do you feel most fulfilled? What if you could not only live longer but also feel healthier, more energized, and more fulfilled as you age? Today, Jay uncovers the secrets of longevity, sharing wisdom from some of the world’s leading experts in health, wellness, and aging. Recorded at the Longevity Summit, this episode explores groundbreaking insights on how we can extend not just our lifespan but also our health span, ensuring that we live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. Jay unpacks the science behind aging, from cellular regeneration to the role of mindset in shaping our physical well-being. He shares compelling research on nutrition, movement, and daily habits that contribute to longevity, emphasizing how small, intentional changes can have a profound impact. Through thought-provoking conversations and personal reflections, Jay helps us understand how to take control of our well-being, cultivate emotional resilience, and prioritize self-care in ways that align with our long-term health goals. In this episode, you'll learn: How to Add More Healthy Years to Your Life How to Strengthen Your Mindset for a Longer Life How to Reduce Stress and Boost Emotional Resilience How to Create a Longevity-Focused Morning Routine How to Use Movement and Exercise to Slow Aging How to Prioritize Sleep for Long-Term Wellness The journey to longevity isn’t about drastic changes or chasing the latest health trends, it’s about making small, intentional choices every day that add up over time. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 03:11 Experience the Grounding Meditation 09:22 The Search for Your Purpose 12:55 What Are You Holding Onto? 17:25 This Isn’t Your Purpose 19:42 Who Found the Most Meaning in Life 32:11 Five Check-In Systems for Envy 32:49 #1: Deep Sense of Belonging 39:46 #2: Continuous Learning 44:55 #3: Individuality 47:00 #4: Significance 50:40 #5: Service 53:31 The Biggest Key to Meaning and PurposeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What can we expect from Jay Shetty's podcast tour?
We'll dive into experiences designed to experience growth, spark learning, and build real connections. I can't wait to meet you. There are a limited number of VIP experiences for a private Q&A, intimate meditation, and a meet and greet with photos. Tickets are on sale now. Head to jsheddy.me forward slash tour and get yours today. Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose.
I'm so grateful you're here and I can't wait to dive into today's episode because we're talking about something that affects all of us. It's trending right now, it's buzzy right now. The thing that we all think about, longevity. Can we live a longer, healthier, more meaningful, more energetic life? Longevity isn't just about having more years, it's about having more life in your years.
Chapter 2: How can mindset and habits influence longevity?
I recently had the incredible opportunity to speak at the Longevity Summit, where I shared insights on how mindset, habits and purpose play a crucial role in how we age. In this episode, I'm breaking down the science-backed habits, mindset shifts and daily routines that can help us not only extend our years, but make those truly the best years of our life.
So whether you're in your 20s, 40s or beyond, this episode is for you. It's never too early and it's never too late to start making changes that can transform your future. I can't wait for you to hear this keynote. Let's get into it.
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We all know that purpose is one of the keys to longevity. There's a 15% reduction in all causes of mortality if you have purpose. Jay is the expert on purpose. He is the host of one of the top health and wellness podcasts in the world, On Purpose. If you don't listen to this, you have to download it. He's an entrepreneur, a best-selling author, proud to call you my friend.
And I start every morning with the five-minute Daily J on the Calm app. And we are so lucky to have them do this live for us today to kick us off. And he told me everything we're hearing today is brand new content. No one else has really heard this ever before. So with that, Shay, thank you.
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Chapter 3: What is the grounding meditation exercise?
Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. It's wonderful to see you all. It's always relieving when your doctor introduces you on stage. It's a new experience for me, but thank you, Darshan, for being a dear friend and an incredible doctor to me personally. I'd like to start off, as Darshan said, with a grounding meditation to get us all in this space. How many of you
have been travelling lately, maybe you've got travel plans this summer, and you're thinking to yourself, I really hope that I can capture these memories with my loved ones and family, that you want to keep them inside of you, you want to take a mental picture. So what I'm going to guide you through today is a practice that I love to share.
that we can use to take a mental picture wherever we are in the world. So when you're with your children, when you're with your partner, when you're with your friends and loved ones, how can you take that experience with you everywhere for the rest of your life? So what I'd love to do is I'd love for you to keep your feet firmly grounded in case you have them crossed over.
I'd love for you to put your phones away. It's not that kind of a meditation. And I'd love for you to release anything from your hands, whether it's pens, notebooks, whatever else it may be, so that you can truly be free.
And I'd like you all to take a moment to just look around this space and bring your awareness to five things that you can see And I want you to observe them a bit more deeply than you ordinarily would. The colors, the shades, the shapes. Bring your awareness to five different objects in this room.
Looking at them closer than usual.
And when you've found your five, take in a deep breath and gently and softly close your eyes. What are four things that you can touch?
Maybe the clothes that you're wearing, the seat beneath you, the texture of the floor.
Notice the temperature of the four things that you can touch.
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Chapter 4: How can we redefine our life's purpose?
We just did a five-minute meditation. It can be very challenging. But we spend about seven minutes a day wasted on deciding what to watch, 45 hours a year. And that time just disappears. What if we were able to redirect that? Now, what's really interesting about the word purpose, and Darshan and I were just talking about this, I think so many of us know what it feels like to chase success.
It felt very tangible. It felt very obvious. There were clear markers. There were clear things to measure. There was clear data. the promotion, the company, the exit, right? There were clear points, there were clear milestones as to how we get there. And I think we know that, we understand that. We were trained since we were young people to be successful.
It was part of our DNA, it was part of the college you went to, the parents you had, the people you were around. And then at one point, everyone started to talk about happiness. And that was completely the opposite. There were no milestones, there was no data, there were no metrics, and it was kind of confusing.
And then we started to realize that happiness wasn't as tangible and holdable, and it was a feeling, and maybe happiness was a hard thing to look for in difficult times. Maybe you went through the loss of a loved one. Maybe you went through a really uncomfortable process giving birth to a child.
Maybe there was just loads of discomfort and difficulty, and happiness just feels like a very far-off, distant thing to even understand. And I think purpose and what I aim to do today is to start helping define the measurable, the milestones, the formula of what it could be, what it might be. It's not perfect yet. We're not there yet. We don't have the level of clarity because it's new.
We're still figuring it out. The research is new. But we do know that it helps reduce stress. We do know that it has positive markers when it comes to inflammation. We do know that people who have purpose in life live longer. So how can we start to understand what purpose is tangibly in a physical way that we can feel it, not in a woo-woo way, right?
Not in a way that's like, oh yeah, one day it'll be nice, wouldn't it? But no, what does it actually mean? I want to start off by sharing with you a story that I was often told in the monastery, and it's a story that the Buddha would tell. And the Buddha often shared this story about an individual who was on a journey. an individual just like you and me.
This person on their journey came across their first obstacle. Now, their first obstacle was not millennials. Their first obstacle was not annoying board members, and their first obstacle was not how to get investment. This person's first obstacle was a fast-flowing river. and the person had to cross to the other side to continue their journey.
Now this person didn't know what to do, but he knew that the river was fast. So he decided to build a raft. So he got bamboo, he laid it out, put down two rows, tied it up with some rope in the corners, He even managed to make himself an oar. He got on top and he paddled and paddled and paddled as fast as he could with all his energy and all his strength and all his might.
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Chapter 5: What are the common misconceptions about purpose?
that you know that what you decide to do, what you choose to do, what you invest in has value. Again, I feel a sense of contentment in this room on those two. Am I right? Give me a show of hands if you agree that the first two feel like wins. Put your hands up if the first two do not feel like wins. And put your hand up if you don't put your hand up no matter what I say. Thank you for the honesty.
There's one honest person in this room. Thank you so much. First two, we're pretty clear on. Third one, again, highly emphasizes personal responsibility, a sense of personal responsibility. And the reason why I'm sharing these with you is because for those of you who have children or have young people in your lives,
I think these three are often what so many Gen Z and millennials are struggling with. The feeling that personal agency exists, the feeling that responsibility matters, the feeling that hard work can be the reward. You may have mastered it, but the people around you may actually be struggling with this. And our desire to coddle in society may be losing that effect.
So those three may be for people in your life, may not for you. The last three... are my three favorites for this room. The last three are the ones I want you to bring your attention to. High compassion. People who had more meaning and purpose in their life were highly compassionate. That's a really fascinating one. And I'll break down what I mean by that.
Often what we find is when we, how many of you have done hard things in your life? Raise your hands if you believe you've done hard things. Right. What often happens is when we do hard things, we become more hard-hearted.
As we do harder things, as we break boundaries, as we define limits, what often happens is we create a sense of a feeling that we've done hard things and other people should be able to do them too. that often that what we've done, somewhere subtly, subconsciously, there's a belief system that other people need to step up and get their act together.
And it may not be as harsh or extreme as that, but there's a subtle feeling of how doing hard things makes us slightly hard-hearted. But actually what we realize is that the people that are happier and have meaning and purpose in life, they've found that doing hard things made them more soft-hearted. Why? Because they realize how hard it is.
They actually recognize how difficult it is to be disciplined, to be focused, to be organized, to be dedicated, to be committed, to be loyal. That is so challenging. That when you meet someone who's struggling with those things, you actually feel compassionate because you realize, you take a moment to honor how hard it was for you to do it. And this is a really intricate, subtle point.
The challenge we have with being compassionate to others as high performers is because we struggle with compassion with ourselves. How many of you know that showing yourself a little more grace and kindness would be a useful asset in your life?
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Chapter 6: How do people find the most meaning and purpose in life?
And I'm sure you have legitimate stories. Take a moment to see where in your own heart you've blocked some compassion for yourself. This one is my favorite point out of all of them, the fifth point on this list. People who had a strong sense of meaning and purpose in their life, low envy. Envy was extremely low, right? Now I can't wait for a Darshan at Next Health to invent a envy marker, right?
I'm waiting for a Darshan. You got to find a way to measure this envy marker inside all of us and give yourself a score. But it's what we need because you know this better than I do. And I'm sure you know people. We know people who've achieved everything you could possibly want to achieve and still feel envious.
I remember sitting down with a client who was the number one person in his industry at the time. And I remember sitting down for my first meeting with him. And when I'm doing my purpose analysis, kind of like what you do with your doctor's analysis and your bloods and everything else, I did my analysis and I often ask the question, who are you envious of? So I don't ask, who's your competition?
I ask, who are you envious of? And this person who is number one in their field, global icon, world known, one of the most well-known people in the entire planet, named another person who is number one in their industry. in a completely different industry, not in their field, in a completely different field. And I was sitting there completely confused. And I was thinking, why, how?
Like you have everything that that person has, like whether it's finances, whether it's physical appeal, whether it's attracting, you know, a partner, whatever it is, you have all those same superpowers that I see in that individual. And I asked them, why? Why are you envious of that person? And they said, because I feel that that person is loved fully. That that person is fully loved.
And I said, well, you haven't checked Reddit or Twitter for a while. There's no one who is loved fully in the world. That's just not true. There's no one. And it was just a really fascinating thing for me about how no matter how high you go, high envy... is a cancer that will destroy everything.
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