Friday, August 15, 2014

Finding Your Life Purpose In 4 Simple Steps

Is This All There Is?
 
How many times have you wondered, “Is this all there is, or do I truly have a life purpose?”
 
We come down here to Earth as souls in human form. We live and learn and love each and every day until we give up this costume of flesh and bone and blood and go back to where we came, then do it all over again. When you think about it, life and the soul can be frustratingly complicated or delightfully easy. Many people choose to live a life filled with complicated frustrations, chaos and mass confusion. Some people are happily ignorant or blissfully unaware. Most of us fluctuate or live somewhere in the middle.
 
With all of these lessons to learn about love, money, health, and career, how can we expect to discover our purpose too? Keeping our finances balanced seems beyond our means most of the time and yet we crave to discover why we’re truly here? What are we meant to do? How can we help others? What big plans does Spirit have for us?
 
It’s easier than you think, which is probably why it always seems out of reach. We thoroughly believe that discovering our life purpose has to be more difficult than trying to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here are some simple steps to discover your purpose in life.
 
Exercises: Finding Your Life Purpose

1. Don’t compromise yourself. In other words, you can’t spend your life doing for others, following someone else’s path and dreams and goals, and bowing down to society. You need to be true to yourself, your wants, your needs and your desires. That’s not to say that you should suddenly become rude or irresponsible, ditch your marriage, abandon your kids, and tear up your bills. What it does mean is that you may need to say “no” more often so you can pursue things that fulfill you and bring you peace. Maybe you want to go back to school, volunteer, or simply read a book under the shade of a tree.
 
2. Live your life as if ever day has a purpose. Rather than looking at the end result of your grand purpose in life, take each day and use it as mini-steps that will get you to where you need to be. Maybe you don’t know where it is you want to end up. That’s okay! As long as you’re doing things every day that bring you comfort and happiness you’ll find your purpose at some point.

3. “Remember what the dormouse said, ‘Feed your head’” You can’t find your true purpose in life unless you read, listen, watch, learn, and take action. Read a book, watch a documentary, take a class, whatever you can do that will stretch your mind will help you discover your purpose. Your mind and soul are like a rubber band and every time it stretches it never goes back to the original shape. Keep stretching!
 
4. Patience, Grasshopper. Why are humans in such a hurry? We spend decades screwing up our lives yet we want to be successful and live a life of purpose moments after reading the latest self-help or how-to book? It ain’t gonna happen!
 
Life is a journey, not a destination. Sure, look upon your true purpose as some place you’ll eventually get to, but enjoy the scenery along the way.
 
Not everyone is meant to be the next Oprah or Madonna or Mother Theresa. A life of purpose is something that makes you feel good about being alive and it should benefit others as well since all life purpose paths touch others in some way, making their lives better as well.
 
Finding your purpose in life is truly easy, it just takes time and a willingness to stay the course yet freedom enough to go where the wind takes you. I cover this topic and many, many more in my book 10 Minutes A Day To A Powerful New Life.

Light and Blessings,

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