Live your purpose

If you are like the average person you’re saying I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. We fall l into the trap of a job and work there for the rest of our working lives and bury our calling, our passion for the more practical business of feeding ourselves. And even though we might be successful at doing that we remain unfulfilled. Some dive into volunteer work to experience the satisfaction they miss in their work.  Most of the people who do tons of volunteer work are generally not satisfied with what they do for pay.  Finding our life’s purpose has not been part of our upbringing. We were steered into profession and vocations that would bring respect and admiration to our parents. Parents often push their children to do what would please them and also what they failed at doing.

What if asking a child on a regular basis what would you like to be when you grow up, what do you enjoy doing, what makes you forget about time? Listen to their children and observe them so that you can guide and help develop their passion. How would our world be different? The world would have been filled with happy, contented and well balanced people enjoying and appreciating what they do. Unfortunately we do not make life that simple. Here are five questions that Life Coach Lindsey Lewis suggests to uncover what you may be missing. It is never too late to find your purpose.

1. NOTICE WHAT CAPTIVATES YOU.

2. TAKE YOUR LIFE INVENTORY, REFLECTING PAST CALLINGS.

    What have you done in the past that fired you up? What didn’t fire you up but you did it because you   could not see any other way?

3. JOURNAL ON WHAT YOUR CALLING IS.

Write out 50 responses to the question: “What is my calling?” Put pen to paper and go! Do not pause or edit, and do not stop before you get to 50. Your calling will make itself known.

4. ASK OTHERS WHAT THEY THINK.

    Friends sometimes notice things about you that you try to ignore.

5.  Meditate on your life purpose

    Take a few deep breaths, relax, close your eyes and then place one or both hands on your heart, take a few more deep breaths and feel the connection. The heart knows everything. Ask your heart say: Heart, what is my life purpose, what should I be doing right now that would make me happy and contented, what did I take on this physical form to do?  Take another deep breath and slowly open your eyes. Drink some water and wait. The answer will pop out at you, sometimes in unusual ways.

You are deeply and divinely loved