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Your north star can also be thought of as your ‘why’. It’s your reason for being, the thing you want to achieve, the product you want to fix, the difference you want to make…
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One of the true joys in my work is helping clients find their “North Star” — their true calling in life.
Council Post: Live With Purpose: How to Find Your 'North Star' Paula Black 2024
treeseed commented on the word north star
The North Star, also known as the Pole Star, is the bright star that lies closest in the sky to the north celestial pole, and which appears directly overhead to an observer at the Earth's North Pole. The current North Star is Polaris, which lies about two-thirds of a degree from the pole at the end of the "handle" of the Little Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Minor. Polaris has a visual magnitude of 1.97 (second magnitude). (Some people mistakenly think that Polaris is the brightest star in the night sky. This title belongs to Sirius, and there are many others stars also brighter than Polaris.)
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February 24, 2008