It’s Time To Find Your Life Purpose
What Is My Life Purpose?
- Are you in control of your life? Or do you live by chance?
- It’s not what you say, but what you do that matters!
- Find out how to live a more purposeful life!
Did you ever stop to think why you are here? I mean, what’s the point of living if you don’t have a life purpose?
Out of all the millions of sperm that could have beat you to the egg, you made it. So surely you must be here for a reason? Surely you must have a life purpose?
Yet despite the amazing achievement of our existence, many people live with little or no life purpose.
You ask them what they are going to do tomorrow? They say, “I don’t know”. You ask them what they are going to do next year? They say, “whatever” or “lets see what comes up”.
Have You Found The Purpose Of Life?
The truth is, most people do not know their own life purpose. And so their life is lived by chance, reacting to things that happen to them, rather than making things happen for them.
It’s almost as if someone is controlling their life by throwing dice. A chance encounter, a chance phone call, a chance event.
The trouble is, these people never know how the dice are going to land. And so they live their life not only randomly, but with very little control.
As a result their life often seems to lack any real meaning, and is filled with a sense of uncertainty as to what the future may hold.
But not all people are like this. Some people will take the dice, put them on the floor and stamp on them. They don’t want someone controlling their life with some stupid dice.
No. They want to know what the purpose of life is, and control their own destiny. And they do this by setting clearly defined specific goals.
Finding the purpose of life enables these people to make sure that the actions they take on a daily basis, lead to the accomplishment of the things they want to do in life.
This enables them to create their own life, rather than reacting to the lives of others.
What Is The Purpose Of Life?
So what is the purpose of life? Don’t ask me! I don’t have a clue what your purpose in life is! Fnding your life purpose is something only you can do.
Everyone is different, so we will each have a different life purpose. But the truth is, it doesn’t really matter what you do. What counts is that you are doing something, and living a life with purpose rather than a life without one.
The sad fact is, many people struggle to find their life purpose, and some never find it at all. These people often live random lives, going from day to day, without ever really going anywhere.
Because they lack meaning and purpose, they ultimately lack any control over how their life turns out. And so in the end, they live their life by throwing dice. By chance.
Finding Your Life Purpose
Finding your life purpose doesn’t necessarily mean you have to decide right now exactly what you want to do in life. Finding your life purpose is much more than that.
Sure, finding your life purpose is something that you can work towards as your overall goal. But life should also be filled with smaller goals, that give it purpose on a day to day basis.
For example, if you wanted to start exercising, that would give your life purpose. You have set yourself a goal to exercise, and so the actions you take in the future are taken with a purpose working towards achieving that goal.
However, it is extremely important for your goals to be specific. So just saying you want to exercise isn’t enough.
Rather, it would be better to say you want to exercise 4 times a week, for 30 minutes on the exercise bike. This tells you exactly what you should be doing, and allows you to monitor your progress.
By doing so, you can then see if what you are doing is consistent with what you wanted to do. This is important, because what really counts is not what you say, but what you do.
A Purpose Driven Life
By starting to live more purposefully in small areas of your life, such as by setting goals and working towards their achievement, you will automatically start bringing purpose to your life and living a life that has greater meaning.
This will then allow you to move onto bigger areas of your life and apply purposefulness there, until your whole life is lived purposefully.
Once you are able to live purposefully you will feel in control of your life, and as a result, much happier with it.
Do You Remember Your Childhood Life Purpose?
If you are currently struggling to find your life purpose, don’t worry, you are not alone! Just because you can’t think of it now, doesn’t mean you will never find it.
It is often said that people first discover their life purpose as children. However because of their parents, or limiting self doubt, they give up on their dreams and choose a more traditional “safer” way of life.
Unfortunately, because they end up doing something they never really wanted to do, or doing it for the wrong reasons, they end up lacking fulfillment in their life and so feel they lack purpose.
The most successful people in life often knew exactly what they wanted to be as children. They had a dream, and went for it, no matter what anyone told them.
They may not have got their ideal job straight away, but they made sure they kept working at it until they did.
What did you want to be as a child? What dreams did you have that you gave up on, because of something which someone may have said?
No matter how silly it may sound, or how impossible it may seem, would doing it make you happy? Could that be your life purpose?
So take some time to think about your childhood dreams, and if there is something you really wanted to do, then do it!
Don’t think about how you are going to do it, or what other people will say about it, just use it as your life purpose and the rest will sort itself out.
4 Steps To Finding Your Life Purpose
Here are 4 steps to help you find your life purpose:
Set Yourself Goals
Goals are the things you want to do. They are your intentions and desires.
Decide Action Steps
What specific action do you need to take to achieve your goals?
Monitor Behaviour
Monitor your behaviour to see if you are doing what you should be doing.
Monitor Your Actions
Monitor your actions to see if they are making your goals a reality. Change them if necessary.
