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Sustaining Purpose: Resilience, Collaboration,
and Future Outlook
The journey of purpose in a demanding field like sustainability inevitably con
fronts the unpredictable. Mehak’s approach to personal readiness for challeng
es is distinctive: “You are never ready, and always ready”. She posits that the
initial step is merely “wanting to start something”, and then, through the jour
ney, one “keeps learning”. Readiness, therefore, for her is not a fixed, quantifia
ble state but an ongoing process, driven by feeling “driven enough by the cause
or by whatever that you are planning to do”. Her early startup, an aromatherapy
roll-on, “made sense at that time.” Still, she concluded it when “something else
made more sense”. This is a pragmatic pivot guided by evolving priorities and
authenticity. Her core value of “authenticity” means “as long as whatever I’m
doing makes sense in my universe, it’s good”.