Why We Need Purpose and How to Find It

A meaningful life is one of the best ways to ensure your health and prosperity

For some people, being a baker is a job. For others, it is an opportunity to create exceptional food in service of the people who patronize their bakery. Purpose can invest any job with additional meaning and joy. Nestor Rizhniak/Shutterstock

We all need to eat and sleep. We all want shelter and companionship. But once our basic survival needs are met, we also yearn to feel useful too.

A sense of purpose may not seem essential to survival, but our physical health and mental well-being depend on it.