{"id":41600,"date":"2022-11-08T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41600"},"modified":"2024-07-07T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:22:19","slug":"what_is_your_basic_purpose-jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41600","title":{"rendered":"What Is Your Basic Purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"What Is Your Basic Purpose?\" width=\"754\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/What_Is_Your_Basic_Purpose.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A great quote from Rabindranath Tagore: \u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If your service is not joy then chances are what you are doing is not on your basic purpose. I have written an article to help you work out your basic purpose if you don\u2019t yet know it. Please, take advantage of it. Your future self will thank you enormously for the time you invest in finding it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37862\">https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37862<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote from Rabindranath Tagore: \u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.\u201d If your service is not joy then chances are what you are doing is not on your basic purpose. I have written an article to help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Is Your Basic Purpose?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55210,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions\/55210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}