Living with Purpose and Thriving: Recent Episodes
Gary Bertoline
This is an audio podcast designed for educational purposes by Gary Bertoline, Senior Vice President of Purdue Online. If you would like to learn more about the course or register for it, please visit:
https://www.eventreg.purdue.edu/info/Living-with-Purpose-and-Thriving/
In his final podcast, Gary talks about the role finances play in your overall happiness. Regardless of your age, career, or financial situation, everyone can find financial freedom by leveraging your time, resources, knowledge, and understanding of potential earning and saving power.
In this podcast, Gary unlocks the secrets to happiness through health and wellbeing. In this very robust podcast, Gary outlines what a happy lifestyle looks like through eating healthy and exercising.
In this podcast, Gary discusses the power of mindfulness by quickly summarizing the benefits, dispelling the myths, and diving into what it looks like in practice.
In this podcast, Gary lays out the truth (and tips) about roles, goals, and intentions. The fact is, all too often, we set goals and intentions without thinking about the steps involved. We are good at setting out to do great things over time, but if we aren't careful, our lofty goals become things we hope to do, but never make time for.
In this podcast, Gary talks about what it means to put first things first by starting with your personal mission statement and then moving on to the 7 major roles in your life that should take precedent over everything else. Of course, this is not to be confused with the things that take precedent over our life that should not. The goal of this step is to begin using the inventories you've taken advantage of in the previous steps so you can roll them into a personal mission statement that will guide you through each day, week, month, and ultimately year.
In this podcast, Gary talks about the importance of the four truths and virtues. When we accept these, it helps frames out thoughts in a more productive and purposeful light. This allows us to make more meaning in our life and overcome the day-to-day challenges that that hinder us from finding joy and productivity.
In this podcast, Gary urges you to dig deep into who you are. While many of you have likely already taken instruments like Strength-finders 2.0 or MTBI, it's imperative that you reflect on the many facets that make you who are you and how you can leverage that using emotional intelligence and other self-discovery instruments. Regardless of how much you already know, self-discovery is a process that takes time. Everyone can benefit from learning more about who they are.
In this podcast, Gary discusses the cold, hard, truth about the ways in which we let circumstances, people, and other factors that are either out of our control or (worse yet) in our control that we don't take responsibility for, stop us from finding happiness.
In the first podcast, Gary provides a personal introduction about who he is, why he's excited to teach this course, and he hopes you'll learn.