How To Find Your Purpose This Week: A Guided Exercise
This week, our friends at The Hi, How Are You Project (HHAYP) are hosting their second-annual HAPPY HABIT-A-THON—a one-week virtual celebration honoring the legacy of the late, great Daniel Johnston and his surviving mural.
The Project, founded with the support of the Johnston family in 2018, creates thoughtful media, events, and peer-to-peer training programs that encourage open and ongoing dialogue on mental well-being. (Johnston was a world-renowned musician and visual artist despite his own struggles with mental illness.) The Happy-Habit-A-Thon is an extension of their mission—for one week, everyone is invite to share habits that support mental health.
For this year’s Habit-A-Thon, we’re releasing an 8-minuted guided exercise in partnership with HHAYP about finding your purpose.
How can we connect to ourselves, as well as the people, places and things we love, on a weekly basis? In this video, our Executive Director Jane Hervey walks you through three habits that we try to nurture at Future Front to support our mental health—and ground us in our values, community and creativity.
3 Weekly Habits Around Finding Your Purpose —
→ Map Your Values.
For 30 minutes, journal your five core values and how you can practice them daily.
→ Nurture Your Community.
Set aside 2 hours to connect with the people, places or things that remind you of who you are—whether that’s visiting a business you love or heading to the park.
→ Make Day-Dreaming A Habit.
Give yourself an hour to just think. Come up with creative ideas—without judgment,
without high-stakes and without shame.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Jane Hervey: Jane Hervey (she/her) is a communications strategist, creative producer and accidental nonprofit founder, living and working in Austin, Texas. At work, she spends her time designing communication strategies, identities, programs and gatherings (online and offline) for growing brands, including culture and entertainment organizations, nonprofits, small businesses and start-ups. She is the founding director of Future Front and involved in different creative worlds as a producer and recording artist. Her work has been profiled in publications like Texas Monthly, ADWEEK and Forbes, as well as recognized in the City of Austin’s Women’s Hall of Fame. Outside of work, she lends her time to nonprofit and community coalitions that examine eco-systemic conversations around representation, equity and sustainability in media, creative tech, business and the arts. You can learn more at janeclairehervey.com.
ABOUT THE PARTNER, The Hi, How Are You Project (HHAYP): HHAYP is an Austin, TX based 501c3 non-profit organization with the mission to remove the stigma around mental health, one conversation at a time. We aim to educate people worldwide about the importance of mental health and well-being while promoting a culture of inclusion. You can learn more and join the Happy Habit-A-Thon here.