Decisions in life that you make once can be challenging. Major life decisions like education, career, relationships, family, finances, and where to live bring thoughts of tension and confusion.
What is your purpose in life? Will all this bring you happiness and fulfilment and the life you want? What does life’s purpose mean and how does one find and fulfil it?
The best way to experience true happiness and fulfilment is to live a life that has meaning and purpose. Wise and knowledgeable people believe that we are put on this earth for a specific reason. Every one of us has his mission and purpose in this lifetime.
We all have unique skills and talents. When we use them, we make a positive impact on the world around us. We create the reality we want to see when we are living our purpose.
Discovering Your Purpose
Discovering your purpose in life you can use as a compass to lead you in the right direction. Once you find your purpose in life it can define the reason you get up in the morning. That can be defined from different areas of your life. It can be your mission, career or hobby.
If you want to live a meaningful life, you have to live it your way. To live your life purpose, you must live and become completely immersed in something you are passionate about, whatever it is. Do what makes you happy.
Living your life purpose will bring you joy and a sense of personal fulfilment. When you ask different people, what is the meaning of life most answers will return to happiness.
Many of them will tell you that you will find happiness when you dedicate your life to the pursuit of your life purpose. Finding the purpose in life is the ultimate antidote to feeling lost and alone.
There is a lot of interesting ways that can help you in discovering your passion and your life’s personal mission.
Doing things you love, doing satisfying work that makes a difference and is valued by others gives you a stronger sense of being connected to the world around you.
Living your purpose requires you to set meaningful goals for yourself. Think about the specific life goals you would like to accomplish. They can be from any area of your life.
Write them down and divide them into several areas: financial, business and career, relationships, health and fitness, fun and recreation, personal, and community contribution.
Break them down into small steps with as many details as possible. Maybe you want to create your own business or become an industry leader. Be sure to specify every goal that occurs to you, how big and by when you will accomplish it.
Make a vision board, and put everything there. Watch it every day! To make the vision board you can use old magazines, cut the pictures and glue them to your board in the shape you wish. Enjoy making it, and be playful like a kid.
Finding your purpose in life:
- keeps you focused,
- feels you passionate about your goals,
- gives you clarity,
- feels you gratitude,
- helps you create the reality you want to live in,
- encourages trust,
- brings integrity,
- helps you find the flow in life and
- makes life more fun
The Micro-Decision Drama
Behind every successful person is clarity of purpose. Purpose provides you with an inner compass that guides every decision and leads you to an experience that will light up your soul.
Every day we are making some decisions which determine our path that day, next week and in near future. Some of our decisions are very important and shape our future. Other less important we need to minimize to the bare minimum.
Decisions that are not important, but eat your time and energy should be automated or eliminated. Some of them are unnecessary and deplete our willpower and still, we are doing them every single day. Making a lot of decisions daily can make you feel tired, low on mental energy, become reckless in your decision-making, act impulsively and feel heavy.
Too many decisions daily can trigger you to search for a better solution or to do nothing which can create bigger problems in the long run.
Making decisions that you didn’t plan can spoil your mood and even make you exhausted. Boost your productivity during a decision-heavy day with some simple steps. You will avoid the drama and headache that brings random, ad-hoc decision-making. Reduce the number of decisions you are making.
The most successful people wear the same thing every day. Why? They eliminate decisions. By reducing the number of trivial decisions, they make each day, they are helping to ensure their successive decisions will be good ones.
“If you are making a lot of decisions daily, you need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.” – President Obama
Make Your Decision-Making Simple
Steps to make your decision-making simple:
- Reduce the number of decisions, make a list, and look for ways to streamline your choices. Avoid random decisions.
- Delegate decisions the same way you delegate tasks. Are there obligations you can delegate to someone else? When done right, delegating can empower people and show them that you trust them.
- Have a process for making decisions. Analyze your choices by listing the options and the factors you need to consider and then score them by the importance of each factor you are weighing. A decision matrix can clear up confusion and remove emotion.
- Make your big decisions in the morning. In the morning we make accurate and thoughtful decisions.
- Limit your options. Pick two or three to compare and don’t spend too much time wading through the pros and cons.
- Set deadlines. Create micro-deadlines that force you to act early and not keep pondering your choices.
- Simplify your life. Cut out things that aren’t important.
- Stop second-guessing yourself.
- Develop daily routines that put less important tasks on autopilot. Establish daily routines, and minimize and simplify your choices.
Final Thoughts
Your life purpose is bigger than any solvable problem or circumstance. Your life purpose and opportunities that fulfil your life purpose are not the same things. Need to understand the difference because life circumstances and opportunities will change over time.
Your life purpose is not something you can define today, nor is it something you will ever fully know or accomplish during your lifetime. Your life purpose is a journey, not a destination.
We all work with the pieces of the puzzle that we have and follow life’s clues. Play to your strengths.
Develop your natural talents into skills by exercising and practising those talents. Learn new things. Do something you are passionate about and that makes you happy.
Go where you are needed. The opportunities you have in life are how the world tells you where you are needed. Focus on what you can control. The only thing you can control is yourself.
Cultivate your mind, body and spirit to achieve your greatest potential and always act with the best of intentions. The path to living your purpose is paved with good intentions and continual self-improvement.
