The TaraElla Story

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Chapter 17. Everything in Life Starts With a Clear Purpose Before we can successfully do anything, we need a clear purpose. We need to clearly determine what it is that we want to do, and how we are going to do it. In fact, finding a clear purpose is at the very core of the quarter life period's goals. Finding one's identity and values naturally go along with finding purpose, after all.

Looking at the broader picture, even on a social or political scale, movements with a clear purpose and clearly articulated goals are also much more likely to achieve their goals, compared with movements that have a vague purpose. In 2010s Western politics, an example of the former was the gay marriage movement, and an example of the latter was the 'opposing the 1% and standing up for the 99%' popularized by the Occupy Wall Street 148


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Chapter 34. It's The Journey That's Important

7min
pages 246-256

Chapter 36. The Importance of Telling Our Stories

2min
pages 257-260

Chapter 33. Sometimes, You Have To Go Alone

3min
pages 240-245

Chapter 32. You Can't Defeat Negativity With Negativity

3min
pages 235-239

Chapter 29. What Is Settled Isn't Settled

1min
pages 220-221

Chapter 30. The Journey That Brought Me To Embrace Positivity

3min
pages 222-226

Chapter 31. In Context: Political Passions in the Early 21st Century West

5min
pages 227-234

Chapter 28. Don't Just Look At The Surface

5min
pages 213-219

Chapter 25. Expect the Unexpected

3min
pages 197-200

Chapter 26. The Political Winds Suddenly Shifted

3min
pages 201-205

Chapter 22. Utopian Plans Lead To Disasters

4min
pages 179-184

Chapter 18. My Ways of Getting Clarity

2min
pages 154-156

Chapter 21. In Context: Civil Rights and Marriage Equality

7min
pages 169-178

Chapter 19. Be Patient As Life Unfolds

8min
pages 157-168

Chapter 24. It's Not Always A Meritocracy

4min
pages 192-196

Chapter 17. Everything in Life Starts With a Clear Purpose

4min
pages 148-153

Chapter 15. Reality Trumps All Theory

4min
pages 136-142

Chapter 13. In Context: The Dawn of the New Media Landscape

9min
pages 117-128

Chapter 16. Clear Vision Make Strong Movements

3min
pages 143-147

Chapter 14. In Context: How 'Citizen Journalism' Changed Politics

4min
pages 129-135

Chapter 11. In Context: What It's Like to Join the Cultural Conversation

14min
pages 94-111

Chapter 12. The Marketplace Opens Up

3min
pages 112-116

Chapter 10. It's A Matter Of Understanding

4min
pages 88-93

Chapter 7. In Context: What Reality TV Taught Us

8min
pages 61-71

Chapter 1. Just Another Young Adult Finding Their Way

3min
pages 7-11

Chapter 8. Bridging the Divide

6min
pages 72-79

Chapter 4. In Context: The World Was Like This, Once Upon A Time

11min
pages 28-41

Chapter 9. In Context: The Religious Awakening That Never Was

5min
pages 80-87

Chapter 2. It Starts With Love And Compassion

8min
pages 12-22

Chapter 3. Breaking The Barrier

4min
pages 23-27

Chapter 5. In Context: How Reality TV Changed The World

10min
pages 42-55
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