When the old arena goes away, it can feel like your purpose went with it.

The title is gone.
The uniform is gone.

The mission, team, structure, and rhythm that helped make sense of who you were, all of that changes.

For me, that old arena was the Navy.

That was the container where a lot of who I am got expressed.

Holding space.
Leading a team.
Helping people develop.
Shaping the environment.
Serving a mission bigger than myself.

And then the container changed.

That is the part I think a lot of leaders feel but do not always have words for.

It is not that you became a different person.
It is not that what made you effective disappeared.

The context changed.

Now the work is learning how the core of who you are expresses itself in a new arena.

Military to civilian.
W-2 to entrepreneurship.
Individual contributor to team leader.

One leadership context to another.

Purpose is not the old role.

Purpose is what comes through when you are fully yourself in the room you are in now.

And sometimes it takes another person, a coach, a peer group, a trusted room, to help you see how that wants to show up next.

If that question is live for you, you do not have to figure it out alone.

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