The Purpose Code: How to unlock meaning, maximize happiness, and leave a lasting legacy

by Jordan Grumet

Worried about purpose? Most people are. But no one has to be. Brené Brown meets Malcolm Gladwell in this ground-breaking self-improvement book that reveals how to make a mark and how to set goals in life without falling into the anxiety traps of conventional success principles books. The ultimate in purpose anxiety relief, and a map for anyone to find happiness.

Purpose can change your life.

Having a sense of purpose has been scientifically proven to help people find happiness, longevity, and health.

But lots of us are also worried about purpose—purpose anxiety has been estimated to affect as much as 91% of people.

What’s going on? And how do we do purpose the right way—to unlock all its many benefits, set goals in life, make a mark and journey from anxiety to legacy?
This question set hospice doctor and writer Jordan Grumet on a quest, and The Purpose Code his remarkable findings to help you change your future forever. The result is a self-development book like no other.

It turns out that we fundamentally misunderstand purpose and the role it plays in our lives. In fact, there are two different types of purpose. One will lead to anxiety and disillusionment; the other will lead to connection and lasting legacy.

In The Purpose Code, Jordan
· Chart a course for you to reach happiness through understanding the deep human truths behind the concepts of Meaning and Purpose (including life review therapy and simple ways of healing generational trauma)
· Equip you with a practical and proven framework for unlocking your real purpose, and show you the life-changing enjoyable way to climb to goals, regardless of your situation in life
· Arm you to differentiate between the two types of purpose when finding life purpose (and show you the hidden reasons why one is always more fulfilling than the other)
· Set you on the way to building a genuinely lasting impact long after you’re gone.

Finding happiness has never been about creating big audacious goals that we may or may not be able to achieve. True contentment comes from filling our lives with enriching activities that lead to connection and, ultimately, legacy. Swap grand but ultimately empty success books for this small goals book, and begin creating your true purpose today.

181 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 7, 2025

About the author

Almost daily, I write something to publicly share, a practice adopted long before I became a doctor of Internal Medicine. Readers of my articles and books access first-hand accounts of my personal and professional struggles, joys, sorrows, shortcomings and intrinsic rewards.

My ever-widening exposure to reading and listening audiences includes the following highlights:

• In My Humble Opinion.blogspot.com. Most weeks I post multiple articles on this venue.
• My writing is featured on social media's leading physician website KevinMD.com.
• Bimonthly, I write articles for The Medical Bag.com.
• Northern MSW: Advocacy, Aging, Healthcare & Social Work Issues, a Canadian website moderated by Victoria Brewster, MSW, regularly presents my essays.
• The Lives You Touch Publications released my chapbook of poetry, Primary Care, in Winter 2012, and with the editorial assistance of CreateWrite Enterprises I published my first book of short stories and essays in early 2015: I Am Your Doctor and This Is My Humble Opinion.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1973, my interest in becoming a doctor ignited when my father, an oncologist, died unexpectedly in the prime of life. This profound and life-shaping loss colors my self-reflective writing and manifests as my "genetic destiny" to practice medicine.

In January 2014, after much soul-searching, I launched my own concierge-style, home-based medical practice.