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Purpose Habits

A guide to building habits with purpose.

Sample chapters from Purpose Habits by Shaun Frankson. Read in order for the full arc.

SAMPLE CHAPTERS

Read in order for the full arc.

Each chapter invites you into a True Story scene of that journey - revealing the habit inside it. A habit you can apply to your own life. Because the whisper you’ve felt? It’s real. And it’s waiting for you to answer. The journey starts here.

Chapter 1 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Silly Ego

The First Audition The Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver is a monster of a room. Over 2,000 red seats stretching back into the dark, the kind of stage...

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Chapter 2 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Your Inner Coach

When I was a kid, I dreamed of going on tour. Not just playing a guitar, but standing under lights so hot they blurred the edges of the stage, soaking in...

9 min readRead chapter

Chapter 3 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Reality

Amsterdam was the next stop. I had been looking forward to it. Canals like veins of glass. Bridges lined with bikes. Tulips in every color. This was a city...

11 min readRead chapter

Chapter 4 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Resisting Stories

The next stop on my international tour brought me to Harvard. Even saying the name felt heavy. Harvard. The word alone carried centuries. Presidents, Nobel...

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Chapter 5 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Letting Go

The cab jolted over the cobblestones of Bonn, every bump a percussion through the seat frame and into my spine. Headlights carved pale rivers across...

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Chapter 6 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Choice

My next stop was Klosters Switzerland for an ocean plastics policy workshop at a ski lodge atop a small mountain town in the Swiss Alps. The train wound...

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Chapter 7 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Moving Forward by Working Backward

There’s a moment in every mission when the goal is clear but the path isn’t - when the dream shines bright on the horizon, but everything between here and...

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Chapter 8 · Purpose Habits

The Habit of Becoming

Closing that SC Johnson deal in early 2020 gave us a couple of months of celebration. It felt like we could finally take a breath - like things were finally...

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