Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. ~Rumi
Discovering your purpose in life can create clarity and provide you with a course by which to navigate your life.
That purpose could be a lot of things:
- To improve yourself and learn the skills required to always be able to live your life as you see fit and help those you love and care about.
- To make the lives of people better through coaching, writing, and podcasting.
- To serve an audience, a small team, or a group of people in your community.
- To raise kids who are self-sufficient and happy with themselves.
- To help others feel empowered to speak out, pursue their dreams, and feel heard.
- To be true to your values, honest with yourself, and open to the wonders of life.
And millions of other possibilities. You don’t have to be making a living from your passion — as long as you feel you are doing something meaningful, and you care deeply about those whom you serve. The training has to be about something bigger than yourself. It’s not just about self-improvement, but growth to serve others.
Two big reasons it’s important to have some kind of purpose bigger than yourself:
- You need a deep reason: If you don’t have a deeper reason for doing the training, you’ll wuss out when things get hard. And when things get hard, that’s when things get really good. That’s when true change happens.
- You need to get out of your closed-in world: Much of the time, we’re very concerned about ourselves. About how we look, about what people think about us, about whether we’re being treated right, about why they act like that to us, whether we’ll get what we want, about whether we’re good enough. Our self-concern is natural, but it closes us up into a very small world of self-concern that makes us less happy, and less content.
Let’s look at these a little closer. And then talk about how to find your deeper purpose, and beyond that, how to live a life of purpose.
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