Edition 2026.05.06
In this issue:
For May, our focus is on how to live with purpose, not just understand it.
Purpose is one of those things that’s easy to nod at and hard to actually live. Easy to feel called toward—and surprisingly hard to make show up in the real minutes and hours of your day.
In this issue, we’re going deeper on what it actually means to commit to a quality life you mean to live – not just a life you manage. You’ll have two powerful opportunities to engage that question directly, plus a landmark immersive experience for those ready to go further.
Table of Contents:
1 • Feature: The Missing
Piece Between Knowing
and Living Your Purpose
2 • Your Growth Practice
3 • Upcoming Events
4 • Ways to Go Deeper
4 • Final Thoughts with
Bob & Judith
The Missing Piece Between Knowing and Living Your Purpose
The gap between knowing your purpose and actually living it
is where most good intentions go to die.
You may know what you want your life to be about, what matters. But the urgency of the day-to-day happens and you find yourself lying in bed at night, once again wondering why you feel so drained, so unfulfilled.
It’s not a lack of motivation. It’s a lack of perspective and one key tool providing a framework for moment-by-moment choices.
Consider Christina. By every external measure, she was impressive—a top saleswoman, an elite mountain climber who summited the highest peaks in North America. When she was training or on the mountain, she was all in. Nothing else existed.
But when she wasn’t climbing? She ignored her health. She had difficulty relating to people around her. Her everyday life felt unfulfilling.
Christina wasn’t lazy or unmotivated. She was intensely purposeful: in one area. The climbing gave her the feeling of being fully alive. Everything else was just… managed. Endured. Checked out from.
She had energy. She had drive. What she didn’t have was a framework for living all of it. Living fully like she did on the mountain.
Most of us aren’t mountain climbers, but the desire to feel more alive in all aspects of our lives still resonates. And like Christina, what’s missing isn’t motivation. It’s a framework. A structure that tells you how to build a life of purpose that you feel in the day-to-day.
It can be as simple as these five steps.
Step 1: Make your One Decision.
Not ten decisions. Not a vision board. One.
Dr. Judith Wright calls it The One Decision: a single foundational commitment about how you want to live. Now what you want to achieve, but who you want to be. It becomes a touchstone, the thing you return to when life gets loud and you’ve lost the thread.
This is why purpose doesn’t show up all at once.
For Christina, the mountain had always been her answer to that question. But she’d never asked it of her whole life. When she did, everything else had somewhere to go.
Step 2: Run everything through it.
Once you have your One Decision, you have one question you can ask about anything: Does this fit?
The meeting you’re dreading. The relationship you’ve been half-present in. The opportunity that looks great on paper but makes your stomach sink.
Does this fit who I’ve decided to be?
Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes it’s a clear no. And sometimes it’s a gentle, uncomfortable not quite—which is often the most useful answer of all.
You don’t need a life coach on speed dial for every decision. You need one good question.
Step 3: Get honest about where you’re checking out.
We all have ways of filling the space between who we are and who we’ve decided to be. Dr. Judith calls these soft addictions: the scrolling, the snacking, the busyness that feels productive that isn’t really going anywhere.
They’re not evil. They’re human. But they’re expensive: in time, energy, aliveness.
Living with purposeful intent means noticing these signals.
Not with self-judgment, but with curiosity:
What am I actually hungry for right now?
Step 4: Show up more fully, in the places that matter.
Purposeful living isn’t something you live in grand gestures. It’s something you live in Tuesday afternoons. In the conversation where you say the real thing instead of the safe thing. In the relationship where you stop managing the connection and start actually making it. In the meeting where yu’re actually present instead of just occupying a chair.
This was the hardest step for Christina: not the mountain, but the Monday. Showing up fully in the ordinary moments she’d spent years checked out from.
Small shifts. Practiced consistently. They add up to a life that feels completely different from the one you were sleepwalking through.
Step 5: Keep coming back.
Here’s what nobody tells you about living with a purposeful One Decision: you will drift
Not because you’re not committed. Because you’re human and life is relentless, and some weeks the best you can do is survive until Friday.
The practice isn’t staying perfectly on track. The practice is noticing when youi’ve drifted—and returning. Without drama. Without a guilt spiral. Just: Oh. I’ve been off. Let me come back.
Christina’s mountain would always be easier than this. The mountain had a summit. This didn’t. But that’s also what made it richer.
The people who live most purposefully aren’t the ones who never lose the thread. They’re the ones who know how to find it again.
That’s the frameworki. Not a checklist you complete once and file away, but a living practice. One Decision, one question, hone honest look at where you’re checked out, one fuller presence, one return when you drift. Repeated, over time, across all of it.
Purpose isn’t one peak. It’s the whole life.
And it starts with One Decision.
For more on The One Decision, join us at our May 20 event.
Your Growth Practice
Your Daily Practice: One Moment, One Choice
This month, take a small step toward living your purpose through a daily practice of showing up differently in one moment each day.
Start by focusing on what truly matters and notice the gaps in how that shows up in how you’re actually living. When you hesitate. Where you override yourself. Where you choose convenient over aligned. Where you delayt what you already know matters.
Don’t try to fix everything.
Choose one moment each day, and in that moment:
• make the aligned decision,
• say the honest thing,
• take the step you’ve been postponing.
And at the end of each day—notice what you did do. Celebrate the moments of alignment, however small. Purpose builds through these acknowledgements as much as through the striving.
Quality of life doesn’t improve all at once. It improves one real moment at a time.
Upcoming May Events
Ready to put your framework into practice? This month’s sessions are designed to help you do that.
You can participate at two levels:
• Attend the Core Sessions for Free
OR
• Attend both the Core & Paid Sessions, with a session workbook, personal/group coaching, & access to replay videos of both sessions. See pricing below for each event.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The One Decision That Can Change Your Life
with Dr. Judith Wright
12:00 pm CT — FREE Lunch & Learn (60 min.)
You can be doing well by every external measure. Goals met. Responsibilities handled. And still… something nags. A quiet sense that you’re not quite living the life you actually want.
That feeling isn’t a flaw. It’s a signal.
In this session, Dr. Judith explores the connection between purpose, soft addictions, and the quality of daily life—and guides you through the framework for making The One Decision that gives direction to everything else. You’ll leave with real clarity and a path forward.
5:30 pm CT — $19 Implementation Lab (60 min.)
This session moves beyond insight into application. You’ll work directly with your own life, identifying the decision that’s been waiting to be made and beginning to build the daily practices to live from it. With guided exercises, live coaching, and a workbook you’ll actually use, this is where the insight becomes yours.
Full replays of both sessions included.
Your $19 payment can also be applied toward any future LiveWright program.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Beyond the Mission Statement:
Strategies for Implementing & Integrating Purpose
with Dr. Bob Wright
12:00 pm CT — FREE Lunch & Learn (60 min.)
Walk into almost any organization and you’ll find it: a beautifully framed purpose statement on the lobby wall, and absolutely no sign of it anywhere else.
In this session, Dr. Bob makes purpose operational, not just aspirational. You’ll see how purpose has to show up on the factory floor, in the hiring conversation, in how a manager talks to their team on a Tuesday afternoon. And you’ll see exactly why most purpose initiatives stall before they get real traction.
Designed for leaders and executives serious about building something that lasts.
5:30 pm CT — $250 Strategy Session (90 min.)
This is a working session. You’ll leave with a concrete roadmap to move forward:
a clear diagnosis of where purpose is and isn’t operating in your organization,
the integration strategies to make it real, and direct access to Dr. Bob in a
small-group setting.
Full replays of both the Free Lunch & Learn and Strategy Session included.
Your $250 payment can also be applied toward any future LiveWright program.
This month, Bob and Judith will be featured presenters at the Purple Circle
retreat in Tulum, sharing “The Rules of Engagement: Live Bigger, Lead Better, Connect Deeper.” We’re honored to bring this work to such a remarkable
community of coaches — and we’d be lying if we said we weren’t a little
excited about the Tulum part too.
Ways to Go Deeper
If you’re ready to move beyond insight and begin actively developing your purpose, here are your next steps:
Attend a Live Experience
Join one of this month’s sessions to reconnect
with what matters and begin applying these
ideas in real time.
Sign up at livewright.com/the-one-decision-workshop-05-2026
and livewright.com/beyond-the-mission-statement-05-2026
The Foundations of a Fulfilled Life Summit: May 6-9
Our immersive multi-day training happens right at the start of the month. This is where thinking about change becomes actually experiencing it. Sign up here.
Your Path into LiveMORE
These experiences are part of a larger developmental path through LiveWright, leading to our next quarter in the LiveMORE program: Purposeful Living & Leadership.
The quarter officially launches with a weekend training, June 4-6.
Learn more about LiveMORE and our upcoming Foundations of a Fulfilled Life. Or email us at hello@livewright.com
Final Thoughts from Bob & Judith
We’ve been doing this work for over thirty years.
And we’ll be honest with you: we still drift. We still have mornings where the day takes over before we’ve checked in with ourselves. We still catch ourselves, at the end of a long week, realizing we’ve been managing life instead of leading it.
That’s not a confession of failure. That’s Step 5.
What keeps us coming back — what keeps this work alive for us after all these years — is that the decision to live with purpose isn’t something you make once and file away. It’s something you make again and again, in the small moments and the big ones. And every time you return to it, it gets a little more yours.
That’s what we see in the people we work with. Not perfection. Not a flawless execution of a five-step framework. But a growing sense of this is my life, and I am actually living it.
That’s what we want for you.
We’re glad to be walking this path with you
LiveWright with purpose that is lived, every day,
Bob & Judith
