Living with amazing purpose is possible for each of us. Here are 6 steps to help get there. Finding your purpose in life can turn everything around by making life more meaningful. Purpose gives us a reason to jump out of bed with hope in the morning instead of grumbling our way to the coffeepot.
Living with purpose helps to make the tough times easier to deal with, and the good times even better.
1. Know Your Beliefs
Living with amazing purpose starts with understanding your own personal system of values and beliefs. What is important to you? What really matters?
When you understand your beliefs, you can live by sticking to what is really important in your moral universe. You have an inbuilt list that you can use to guide the way you make decisions and priorities. It is the bedrock of integrity and how others will judge you. Respect and trust flows from living in alignment with your beliefs.
2. Get Clarity on Your Priorities
Your purpose shapes your priorities. Once you know your life’s purpose, it becomes easier to work out what you want to do and how to achieve your goals. This clarity means that saying no to some things and a hearty yes to others becomes more natural, and you’ll get ahead much faster.
Clarity of priorities becomes a filter through which we make the best decisions.
3. Aim For Balance
Once you’re comfortable with your life purpose, some of the striving and anxiety of life can ease off. You don’t have to work 24/7. You know how important it is to stay healthy, emotionally, and physically. People living with purpose connect with the people they love, and they don’t forget about self-care.
4. Follow Your Passion
Knowing your passion will help you find and nurture your purpose. Passion means energy and motivation; it means being really engaged with life and focusing on getting the most out of it. A new day is full of opportunities and promise, and you’re ready to go for it!
5. Feel your Contentment
This might sound a little surprising, but living a purposeful life gives you time to smell the roses. Knowing your life purpose takes the anxious edge off things and allows you to feel grateful for where you are now, as well as excited for the future.
6. Live in the Present
Perhaps the best gift of a life of purpose is that you relish every moment. There’s no room in your life for regret because everything you do is part of the big adventure. Challenges and setbacks become easier to ride out because you’re not letting failure define you. Being plugged into the present allows you to feel the abundance that’s already in your life.
The search for purpose can sometimes be a tricky ride. How do we know if what we are thinking about is really “purpose” or just wishful thinking? Can our purpose change with time and circumstances? Is purpose a goal or a way of living?
This series about “purpose” explores many aspects and you can see them here and here.
One of my favorite sources of inspiration about the questions of life is Brendon Burchard and my favorite book is THE MOTIVATION MANIFESTO. You can get it here.
We have the gift of freedom. Freedom to make choices based on principles like our own moral compass. Attached to that is the freedom to choose our purpose. It requires a few minutes of quiet time to reflect and acknowledge our inner force. We know what is right and what is wrong for ourselves. Using this power, we can adapt and choose our path or create our amazing purpose.
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