| Thursday, December 4, 2008 |
| purpose in life |
Your purpose has nothing to do with your degree, your resume, your career, or vocation. Your purpose is independent of all those things. In fact, it’s much bigger than any of those. Purpose has to do with your creative self expression. It has to do with what makes you feel alive. It’s something you do, where at the end of the day you think “I made a difference.”
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.
Here’s what to do:
Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.
That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. |
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| Books I Want to Read |
Get me one of these books and I'll be your loyal friend for life (see below for my email address if you're actually considering the idea - not that I'm expecting you to)...
- Snakehead
- Morning is a Long Time Coming
- Baby Blue
- Incarceron
- The Fighting Pit
- The Hunting Forest
- City of Flowers
- A Small Person Far Away
- Bombs on Aunt Dainty
- The Other Way Round
- The Time Withces
- The Wild West Withches
- Inkheart
- Inkspell
- Inkdeath
- Heartsongs
- Midnight's Choice
- The Princess Bride
- 1984
- Wild Blood
- The Magic Faraway Tree
- The Folk of the Faraway Tree,
- The Faraway Tree Stories
- Old Magic
- The Notebook
- Friendship According to Humphrey
- Necropolis: City of the Dead
- Wicked of the West
- The Greek Who Stole Christmas
- When Santa Fell to Earth
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