Finding Your Life Purpose

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Finding your life purpose is a great deal more difficult than most people reckon it is. More often than not, when you ask people exactly what their purpose in life is they offer you a vague set of goals or responsibilities such as: being a better parent; being a good friend; being a good person… and naturally each one of these things is important. But who does not want to be a better parent, a good friend and a good person?

In order to find a clear purpose for your life, one that fills you with passion and gives you the realization that you are living for something larger than yourself, you have to move past the realm of generalities.

It is like Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker, explained in his book “Over the Top”: “You will never succeed as a wandering generality, you must become a meaningful specific.” So if you are absolutely ready to become specific about your mission on earth, here are some simple strategies for finding your life purpose.

The Initial Step in Finding Your Life Purpose

The very first thing that you must do when it comes to finding your purpose is rid yourself of all of the noise and interference that is preventing you from “hearing” the still little voice in your own heart.

For sure, there are plenty of important things you can discover from external sources along with other people’s input. However, when it comes down to you finding your life purpose, the person you must have a discussion with is always accessible, and that person is you.

The difficulty is that all of us are inundated with countless thoughts and opinions, solicitations and suggestions about precisely how things ought to be that we have desensitized ourselves to the voice of our own heart.

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Your own personal and spiritual development is your responsibility and nobody else’s, no matter how many people try to tell you what you should or should not do with your life.

When you have blocked these things out by cultivating “selective ignorance”, you can begin concentrating on the skill that should help you in finding your life purpose.

Begin Listening to Yourself

Listening to yourself is the most critical thing that you can do to begin developing self-awareness and discover exactly what your particular purpose is here on earth.  The most effective way to make this happen is simply by maintaining a daily journal of your thoughts.

Benjamin Franklin, the great inventor, once stated: “If you’re not to be forgotten when you’re dead and rotten, either do things worth writing about or write things worth reading about.”

This saying must have been accepted as true by a number of history’s other great achievers since the majority of them were prolific writers who kept a record of their thoughts and observations in personal letters and journals.

Writing is a focused exercise for the mind and it also allows you to clarify the random thoughts that are going around in your head driving you nuts for much of the day.

Start to write down these thoughts and record the answers to questions such as: “What is the single thing that I would like people to remember me for?” or “What is the one thing that I would like to achieve before I die?”.

When you ask yourself these types of questions and develop the ability to understand your own thought processes and how to listen to the voice within your heart, the answers will get clearer and more specific.

And finally…

Finding Your Life Purpose By Chasing After It

The great writer, Jack London, once said: “You can’t wait for inspiration to come to you, you must go after it with a club.” This is also true in terms of finding your purpose; you need to begin feeding your mind and searching for resources that will assist you in fully understanding your own desires and dreams.

So commit yourself to becoming an enthusiastic reader and researcher of what interests you, and together with your journaling you will gradually be successful in finding your life purpose.