Purpose: BraveHeart Women Community members and many other people often talk about finding purpose, living life with purpose. Entrepreneurs seek purpose because it’s necessary to experience success in their business.
People nearing retirement or retired, people laid off, people experiencing significant changes in their lives like divorce, death, debilitating accidents and disease, regular folks in all walks of life are seeking purpose.
As the world changes more quickly, the discussion and quest for purpose becomes more serious and intense. Entrepreneurs, professionals and regular folks try to define purpose, wonder if they have or can live with purpose, wonder how they can get it.
Steve Pavlina has found a very simple, easy process to discover your purpose. Here it is… I quote:
“If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.
Here’s what to do: 1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
4. Repeat step 3 until you
write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose. That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.”
More information on finding your purpose is available on
Passion Branding Community. Then click on Documents.
Barbara Filla
Passionate about doing good for people, entrepreneurs and business
Passion Branding Community Coach
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