What is My Life Purpose? Get Off the Merry-Go-Round Start Living - Three Simple Steps
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Are you asking, "What is my life purpose?" You'll get Three Steps to help you here. If you've not read page 1 yet, go there now. I recommend that you Click Here to Print This Page Now
so you can refer back to this information again...As I became an adult I realized I'd wandered away from my own preferences. Little-by-little, action-by-action, I'd started doing things that other people wanted me to do or expected from me. I stopped doing what I most cared about. I stopped following and doing what I found fulfilling, interesting or fun. I'd stopped trusting my own guidance. Here's an example -
It's something I did:
I was teaching and facilitating classes on a contract basis for a large international consulting company. I was good at it, I loved it and
I woke up eager every day.
One day a company executive pulled me aside one day and said,
"Hey, we'd like to talk to you about a full-time sales position."
My initial instincts and reaction, it rang out in my head and I
felt it in my gut, was: "Hell No." But what did I say, I said,
"Oh, really?"
Complimented by their interest, I interviewed for the position.
Then I heard about the great salary.
Then I got caught up in 'winning.' And guess what?
I "won." I got the job.
Three months in, the newness had worn off. I started to miss facilitating and training, the work I loved. I started asking, "What is my life purpose?" A year and half later I resigned and started my own consulting firm. While I believe that 'We Can't Get It Wrong Because We're Never Done' - things always work out in the long run - I did cause myself sleepless nights and inner turmoil by subsuming my own desires to please others. That's one of many examples of what it's like to ignore our own interests and preferences. And pretty soon, before we know it, we're far away from what truly 'feels like play for us.' We then think and feel that life has no purpose. We get off-our-own-track, in little steps, for logical reasons, often to please others for things that sound good to others... When we stray from what's aligned with our personal intentions and preferences, the small and big things that make our heart soar, the work and interactions that feel natural to us and make us happy...
...we start feeling off-purpose. And before too long we're frustrated and feeling like something's missing. Then we type into Google the 'what is my life purpose' question. I recommend that you Click Here to Print This Page Now
so you can refer back to this information again...Three Steps That I Use
& Recommend for Answering Your
What Is My Life Purpose Question:Make Peace With Where You Are. No I did not say live with where you are and what you are doing forever more. But I do want you to do anything and everything you can do to soften the resistance and tension you are feeling about your current situation. Why? Stomping your feet literally and/or figuratively will only keep you stuck where you are. Complaining and fussing incessantly in every conversation will cause you to get caught up in a merry-go-round of different places different faces, but the same result. If you want inspired ideas and insights to answer the 'what is my life purpose question' you must know that: your Guidance and Self Direction, are hard to hear, follow and almost impossible to see, when you're constantly aggravated and upset (Either out loud or to silently to yourself.). "Sing in your own voice...Don't make excuses. Just shut the hell up and get on with it. Time waits for no one."
---Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody Spend 30 Minutes or More a Day Writing, Meditating or Doing Something That Calms You Stepping out of your busy life every day for 15 minutes two times a day, so you can tune into your own thoughts and preferences, will help you listen and follow your own preferences. Yes, read books and take self help courses that 'call' you. But make sure that they are 'calling you' or feel right to you, that they are inspired choices. You'll only know that, when you've strengthened your ability to hear and follow your internal knowing about what is best for you. You can only do that by spending time with yourself. See my review and information about this journal writing tool and these mindful meditation tools, Meditainment. "You have to find your own schtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway...Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody's voice but your own."
---Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody Know & Remember: Everyone Has Different Intentions and Preferences, We All Have Different Life Purposes There's no reason to argue with others about what is the best and right life purpose. We all have our own answers to the 'What is My Life Purpose' question. We have our own purposes and intentions. And over time, they can and usually do, evolve. My husband, Jeff, LOVES to work, build a business and buildings and make money. He is happy doing that. He thrives and he is wonderful person. I LOVE ideas, teaching, writing and studying. Two people in love (together since 1993) and very happy. Two very different life purposes. I do not need him to endorse my answers to the 'what is my life purpose' question. He does not need me to endorse his. We can co-create beautifully together and love and respect the differences. Remember, everyone has different intentions, don't try to convince people that your life purpose is the right one. They do not know, only you know. And doing that(trying to convince others) will just take you off track and off purpose again. Spend all your time focusing on strengthening, paying attention to and following your own Guidance, Intentions and Preferences. Believe me, it takes focus to do this. You don't have time to try and manage other people's lives, and anyway they'll resent you for trying.
"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside,"
---Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody
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