You’ve read how too many choices stops people from buying, you’ve read how the paralysis of “Anal-ysis” is a painful thought loop and how “DOing” is the quickest way to learning. Now here’s a way to determine what DO, why and when.
What were you put on earth to do? That’s a mind-blowing question, and most people don’t know the answer. Lots of folks get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, sit in front of the television and go to sleep. That’s their day. That is not anyone’s purpose in life.
If you don’t know your purpose, then your first purpose is to get a purpose.
When you look at the lives of the most successful people who ever lived, you can see that they had a definite purpose and they knew it. Some examples are: Christ – His purpose was spiritual, and stated in John 10:10, which reads: “I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly.”
Walt Disney’s purpose: “To make people happy.”
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller’s purpose: “Humanity’s comprehensive welfare on spaceship earth.”
Henry Ford’s purpose: “To mass produce, mass distribute and have cars mass consumed.”
Andrew Carnegie’s purpose: “To manufacture and market steel.”
Mother Teresa’s purpose: “To care for and comfort the poor, sick and needy all over the world.”
Never confuse a purpose with a goal. Goals are great! I/we teach goal setting, and believe it is crucial to achieving any kind of success. But goals alone, left by themselves, can be un-fulfilling. We can have hundreds of goals (and I hope you do), but we may only have one purpose that we work for our entire life. That purpose is the underlying core that gives our goals direction and meaning.
Discovering your purpose will put your life into crystal-clear perspective. You will see another world, one in which you are a necessary and intricate spoke in the wheel. Your purpose is waiting for you to figure it out….and when you DO…you’ll create a new world, a new reality, a new wholeness where everything you need seems to flow to you.
WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? You cannot find this answer in a book or a class. (Wouldn’t it be nice and simple if you could?) The answer can only be found deep inside of you.
How do you find your purpose? My suggestion is meditation, or deep, controlled, concentrated thought. Find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. Grab a pen and start writing.
Relax and tap into your mind, way back there in the deepest, secret compartment of your mind, by asking yourself this question: “If I knew my life purpose, what would it be?”
Keep asking this question until you get the answer. It may not come the first day, or even the first week. The answer is within you, your heart and will surface consciously when you ask sincerely and repeatedly.
