Does your life's purpose seem to be eluding you? Not sure what your "Life Purpose" is? Well, you have just found it!
You may be saying to yourself right now: "Yeah, right! How can that be? I've been searching for my life purpose all this time and here's this crazy loony telling me I just found it!"--Fair enough. Let me explain.
The thing about our life's purpose is that we tend to overcomplicate it. We think that if it is not mystical and amazing, it can't possibly be it. However, I'd like to pose a question to you. What do you think is the purpose of your life?
If we 'zero base' it, which simply means make it very plain and simple-deep down inside, you feel happiest when you are living in unison with the natural laws of the universe (pure physics, mind you). The natural laws, one of which is the law of service illustrates the point well. The grand aim for us in this life is spiritual progression (even if at first we don't recognize it).
The way we go about it in our day to day is also simple. In order to continue the experience we need to keep ourselves alive. In order for that to happen we need to work to feed ourselves and being on purpose whilst we do that means being happy whilst adding value and solving other people's 'urgent problems'.
Whether you clean houses for a living or run multi-national corporations you are on purpose when each day you are happy and can't wait to start your day because it is another opportunity to positively touch someone else's life in a positive way--adding value to them.
You see the creator of all life inscribed in each one of us a very simple program: "become better than you are, whilst helping your neighbour do the same!" It is within our daily activities that we find the opportunity and the lessons necessary to act out that program. These very opportunities help us make the necessary attitude choices in order to gain the most out of our learning: The purpose of this life.
You see our purpose as spiritual beings having a physical experience is to improve ourselves and come closer to perfection. In so doing we help those around us do the same and hence improve the collective consciousness. Making the universe a better place for everyone; and it all starts with one person at a time.
Precessional Effect Buckminster Fuller explained it best. 'Precession', which is different to 'Procession' is an inevitable consequential result of our actions. A processional activity is one based on linear action, where the outcome is the result of an intention.
A precessional effect is a side-effect that is often unexpected and usually operates at right-angles to the 'Processional' effects (in the way that when a pebble drops into a pond, the resulting ripples on the surface propagate out at right-angles to the direction of the pebble's travel).
We see precessional side-effects clearly throughout nature. Bees are a good example. The bee needs honey, so it flies from flower to flower, collecting nectar in an intentional and straight forward cause and effect process. However, the precessional side-effect of this activity is such that flowers are pollinated in the process creating all sorts of beautiful and necessary effects in nature.
In His wisdom, the Great Spirit gave bees and humans the need to work to provide for 'self', knowing that in doing so precession would take care of the rest, thus ensuring his creatures' purposes are fulfilled daily. The more conscious you become about yourself and the need to add value to other people's lives the more valuable your precessional impact. This is also how together we can change the world, one person at a time.
Cause and Effect Precession is the consequential aspect of our activity - the result of our actions. When looking for your life purpose you only need to concern yourself with answering yes to 3 simple questions.
1.Am I adding value and having a meaningfully positive effect on the lives of the people that cross my path? 2.Am truly coming from my heart and do I have other people's best interests (not just my own) as my priority? 3.Am I honestly happy in this pursuit? Does it make my heart sing?
The precessional effect you have on this world doesn't require outward material success and recognition although you may certainly desire it and (consequentially) receive it--what it does however require is that you go about the business of your heart, diligently.
Whether or not you answer yes to the questions above fundamentally you are already fulfilling your life's purpose. However the ideal is for you to be able to answer YES and joyfully fulfill that purpose. However, be sure to be realistic about it, just because you answer yes to the above questions it does not mean you are going to be 100% happy with your activity 100% of the time. The key is to honour yourself and start making changes (first within yourself) that will accommodate a circumstantial change in direction for you.
How do I change course? Here are a couple of ways to help you get started in joyfully fulfilling your life purpose:
Get really clear First you need to assess where you are and where you want to be. Get really clear about the simple things in your activities that make you happy in your life and that add value to other people. And start doing more of that,applying leverage wherever possible. There are many processes to help you with this: keeping a diary and writing down your thoughts, meditation, emotional freedom technique and even prayer are some of the ways to gain clarity.
Focus on your strengths Playing on your strengths is going to be the one thing that will make you happiest and most successful in adding value to yourself and others. Any professional athlete will tell you that they work to bring their weaknesses to competency level, but their greatest focus and diligence is to further develop their strengths!
Listen to your heart If you hate something--stop doing it. Get educated, get creative and start doing what you love. Life is too short to be miserable. However, take RESPONSIBILITY for your actions and be smart about your change in focus and remember as the great motivator Zig Ziglar says "You can have everything in life you want as long as you will help enough other people get what they want!"
Face your fears Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "There's nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it". In short you wouldn't have a desire unless you were capable of its achievement. Believe in yourself and break through your fears.
Persist One thing about life is that your commitment will be consistently and sometimes seemingly, aggressively tested. Be ready for this. Just because you are 'on purpose' does not mean it is going to be easy all of the time - we have a lot to learn! Too many say they 'want' and they 'will', but too few 'get' and 'do'--not because they can't but because they DESIST--too often just when they are about to get the desired result.
Don't let that happen to you, believe in yourself. Replace negative thoughts with a new mantra: "No matter how bad it is or how hard it gets, I AM GOING TO MAKE IT!"
Choose to be extraordinary--the seed is already in you!
(c) 2008 Gabriela Rosa
These questions are usually proceeded by?.
Feelings of restlessness in your career and/or life. ? A knowing that time is passing you by and you are still not happy and fulfilled. ? A longing to do something more meaningful with your life but you aren't sure what that is.
As we encounter these feelings we try to diminish them by doing more like investing in a higher education, finding a better paying job or even starting our own business.
But after all that, we are often times still feeling unfulfilled, confused, discouraged and overwhelmed.
Because of these feelings, we figure that we still aren't doing something right so we set out to do something different, anything to help us feel better.
Intuitively we know that if we just find purpose and meaning in our life we will feel better. However we often confuse what we do for a living with our purpose. We believe that our purpose is something that we can find, and when we do, our lives will magically get better.
This creates problems because we think that our purpose is something that is outside of us, something that we have to do or attain. Instead, our purpose is the natural essence of who we are just waiting to be expressed. We are our purpose!!
Each of us has special gifts and talents that are effortless for us to share with others. These unique gifts and talents are so much a part of who we are that often times we don't recognize that we are expressing them each and every day. Because we don't realize that we are expressing our purpose by just being who we are, we begin looking for something else, feeling that we have to do more and get better. This is when we begin to struggle and feel confused and discouraged.
So how do you rediscover your special talents and gifts that are your unique life purpose?
One way is to reconnect with what you loved to do as a child. When you were a child you were unaware of the rules and expectations of society and you were free to uniquely express yourself.
Below are some simple steps you can follow that will help you reconnect with your life purpose.
Step number 1: Answer the following questions quickly and spontaneously.
1. When I was a child I always wanted to _______________________________.
2. When I was a child I always loved to ___________________________________.
3. When I was a child my happiest moments were ___________________________.
4. When I was a child my creative outlets were _____________________________.
5. When I was a child I was most afraid when______________________________.
Step number 2: Take each of your answers and describe your reasons behind each answer. These are your "whys".
Step number 3: Go through all of your answers and look for any feeling or essence words such as joy, freedom, love, fun, and creativity. Look for any common themes and write them down.
For example my husband wanted to be a rock star and a truck driver when he was a child. As we took a closer look at the reasons why he wanted to do each of those careers he realized that his motivating factor was wanting a life of freedom. A distinct part of his life purpose is to express personal freedom in all that he does. It doesn't matter what career he chooses as long as he is able to connect and express his desire for personal freedom. As long as he is feeling free, he is living his purpose and feels happy, content and fulfilled.
Step number 4: Write down at least 2 qualities or feelings that you must express in order to feel complete and alive. Then ask yourself, "What can I do to express these feelings each and every day?"
When you do, you will be happily on your way to living your unique life's purpose by easily tapping in to your innate gifts, natural strengths and talents.
Enjoy and embrace the thrill and joy of living your life's purpose so every day is a wonderful, fulfilling adventure where you know that you are making a positive difference in the world.
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~ Shakti Gawain
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