Dustin Peterson is a leadership trainer with Proof Leadership Group and works with organizations to help develop their culture. He is also the author of Reset: How to Get Paid and Love What You Do, and coaches individuals to help them get unstuck in their careers. He has served in a stake presidency in Houston, Texas, and also on a high council and as an early morning seminary teacher, and currently serves as a branch president. In this interview, originally recorded as a Facebook Live session, Dustin talks about clarifying personal purpose to better lead in all areas of your life.

Highlights

4:45 About Dustin and what he does as a leadership trainer and career coach

6:00 Where his passion for purpose came from

7:30 Research study: What makes you an effective leader? Identified the only commonality is a clear sense of purpose with a story to go with it

10:15 Transferring this knowledge into the gospel and the church

12:20 Most of us just want to help other people, but we need to get more specific

13:10 What purpose is: your intention to contribute to the well-being of other people

15:20 The concepts for individual and organizational purpose are the same

16:55 Purpose can be confused with goals or a mission; focusing internally is demotivational

18:00 Your purpose is Your Big Why: What drives you

18:35 To identify your purpose you first need to know three things

* Purpose is broad and ambitious: a big, bold statement

* It serves as an umbrella over everything

* It's what wakes us up in the morning

* It's what motivates us to move forward and pulls us through the hard things

* "Be anxiously engaged in a good cause"

* Example of hospital custodial staff who saw themselves as healers

* 29:20 Macro-purpose, micro-purpose, nano-purpose: everything I do should have purpose

* 32:00 Dissonance of having a strong purpose and having goals that drive you elsewhere: purpose is the unifying force

* 33:20 Purpose is short: 10 words or less

* Share it with other people

* Edit it down

* 36:15 Purpose comes from the ups and downs of your life

* Draw a journey map line

* Purpose lies in the past, not the future

39:00 Routines to keep your purpose top-of-mind: reading it out loud as an affirmation

40:30 Example of ward council/bishopric purposes: look at the evolution of the unit you are in

* Let it guide all your goals

* Let the goals then guide your agenda

44:30 When your calling seems to be outside your purpose: example of educator looking for a way to stop dreading cafeteria duty

48:15 A purpose can't be identified in isolation; we can help others by being a listening ear and by reflecting what we see from the outside

50:10 What has helped shape who I am today? Questions to ask yourself to help identify your purpose:

* What three people have most shaped who I am today, and why?

* What are three experiences that have most affected you and why?

* What are three interests that are most motivating and fulfilling?

* Imagine you could write the script for you life, knowing everything would go as well as it possibly could. What is the story you'd like to see unravel before you?

* What is a problem that you see in your family/church/community/city that really bothers you and you want to solve? What is a problem you see that you really want to get to the heart of, that's near and dear to who you are?

52:05 Two forces push against us when it comes to the choice to step up and lead: resistance from the adversary telling us not to grow (fear, lack of confidence,