What is YOUR life purpose?

Last night, I listened to a one hour free telecast all about finding your purpose in life. It was thought provoking so thought it is worth sharing.

The Insights:

What is it?

• Most people dont know their purpose and the few that do, often hit upon it by accident
• Knowing and living to your purpose is a great way to live: things flow, you are passionate about what you do, you have fun doing it, synchronicity happens.
• Purpose can be defined as one's life's path, one's reason for being, the life voyage where you make the maximum impact (hopefully positive) for yourself and others.
• The cost of not knowing and living your purpose is the opportunity cost of what could have been. People rarely regret things they have done and more often regret things they have not done in their lives.

Methods to find your purpose:

• Waiting for the lightening bolt
• Trial and error
• Indirect (Look for patterns in all the moments of your life when you felt you had "flow"
• Direct (set up a 2 way communication with some trusted force to ask them what it is)

The Direct method delivers the most specific and therefore better results.

• The trusted source in the direct method depends on your belief system. It could be God, The Universe, Your spirit animal, your soul, your inner being etc. etc. etc.
• It is important to find the techinique that works for you to make this 2 way conversation happen (dream interpretation, 2 way journaling, meditation etc.)
• Your fears are the biggest obstacles to hearing clearly what your purpose is.
• To deal with these fears, take them one at a time and ask what is the worst that could happen.
• Then, construct a list of contstraints that would enable you to manage the fear up to a point. For example: My fear is that I will be so passionate about my purpose that I will no longer have any other hobbies. So the constraint becomes I will live my purpose as long as I can do other things that I enjoy also.
• You know if you have hit in your purpose as you will have a strong emotional reaction to it. Then, you need to try it out and see what happens. If fulfillment, passion, success, synchronicity follow, then you know it is your purpose!
• And of couse, it is important to plan how to fulfill your purpose once you find it!

The Source:
The website to find more information is www.knowyourpurpose.com. The teleseminar was organised by David Wood and the speaker was Tim Kelley.