Any strategy for implementing life purpose must take risk into account. Just like a high diver starts off on small diving boards, moving to the medium height board only after he has mastered the small one, and then the highest one only he has mastered the medium one. We can look at career strategy in the same way, using 3 buckets as an analogy. Let's take a toy inventor for example. 1. Her first career bucket might be a job in a factory, sewing buttons onto plush animals. This is the lowest risk bucket and the most necessary for her. With this bucket she can afford a roof over her head, food on the table and clothes on her body. She would not consider leaving this job or moving on from it unless she faced the same low level of risk in a better job/position. This bucket sits above the other two which only begin to fill once the first bucket is filled and begins to flow over. 2. Her second career bucket might be running a sewing business from home. This is the medium risk bucket for her. She should only start this business once she had spent enough time in her sewing job mastering sewing. And it would probably be wise to let the overflow from the first bucket fill in this second bucket a good deal before cutting off the flow. In other words, she shouldn't quit her factory job until she had thoroughly established her business enough that it can sustain it's own flow. This bucket sits in the middle of the other two and is the most critical. It is where most people fail. They empty their first bucket into it, only to find it empty after a year or two because they haven't established themselves in their business and lowered their risk to the point of sustainability. 3. Her third career bucket might be starting her own toy producing company. This is the highest risk bucket for her. She should only move onto filling this bucket with the overflow from her home sewing business. That is, she needs to attain a great deal of success, experience and expertise from her sewing business that filling this third bucket becomes a natural progression for her. This is the quickest emptying bucket and can only be filled by a competent person who knows themselves and their industry inside out, how to manage people, money, time etc. You cannot even reach this third bucket until you have filled the other two. And you won't get a stable flow into this bucket until you have mastered the other two and minimized the risk. I hope this gives you some perspective on implementing your life purpose. It is a slow, slow progression that should be attempted calmly, confidently and incrementally. It's nice to think big and go all out, thinking you can dive right into bucket three and swim with the sharks, but in all likelihood you will be eaten and pooped out as fish food.