Chapter 22: Purpose of Desired Life
One of the most frequent questions I'm asked is "how do I find my purpose in life?" Actually, it's very simple. You don't find your purpose in life.
Your purpose in life finds you. That sounds funny at first and you begin the process by being an actual human being and trusting what feels right to you.
Find Your Passion:
When you trust what feels right and pursue whatever passion or curiosity interests you, you are acting in an authentic way and this is exactly how you find your purpose.
By following our passion along its, paths, it will inevitably lead us to something wonderful. Through this process, our purpose finds us.
Each of us has a purpose and a meaning in life.
Fate and destiny weaves an extraordinary complex situation of events of interconnections and chance encounters. We rarely know or understand our purpose in the beginning stages of our life, but following what we love to do is the only path to discover it, or as I'm suggesting, for it to find you.
Here's an important clue; our purpose and meaning is connected to something we love to do. The universe wants you to be your best self. The universe wants you to be successful.
This is a radical concept to many. Why, you might ask, would the universe want me to be successful or even care what happens to me? The universe wants you to be successful because you are part of it.
You cannot separate yourself from the universe and the universe cannot separate itself from you. We are interconnected with each other.
Each person is an active, conscious part in the unfolding of the Universe. And each one of us has been given special gifts and talents and a unique way of contributing to our world. We bring goodness into the world by being actual and trusting who we are.
Deep within you, there is something calling to you to be your best self, if you can accept that there is something within you, a seed, a gift, a calling, that when discovered and practiced leads you to your purpose, and you accept that the universe wants and needs you to be successful, then you can trust yourself, trust your passion, trust your curiosity, and simply follow wherever it leads.
You have a purpose that will reveal itself to you. You have a meaning and purpose in your life, but you don't always get to know it in the beginning, you rarely get to know it until you begin following what is of interest to you, what you are passionate about.
Trust what's calling you, have confidence in who you are. Have faith in the Universe. Now, it takes a lot of courage to follow your uniqueness and follow your calling, other people have a lot of plans for you.
You might have to buck against societal norms or the standard measurements of what makes a successful life. You won't always know that you are on the right path, but following your own compass, following what you are passionate about, will lead you in the right direction.
Sometimes your purpose happens through a tragedy, a misfortune or something not going how you expected it to that will reveal something new to you.
To have some great vision to fulfill. Give up all expectations and just allow your purpose to reveal itself to you. Maybe it will be something great or maybe it will be something more humble, but it will be actual and it will feel totally real to you.
All we have to do is trust ourselves and be authentic. So how do you find your purpose in life? This is how your purpose finds you: it finds you by you being authentic and living the life that is calling you.
By trusting and moving forward in ways that you don't always understand, one day you discover that your purpose has found you. You are joined together, like best friends, and then a new adventure begins.