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Finding Your True Purpose
In Life
When you’re
on purpose, you’re following your path. Things come to you,
you’re in “the flow” of things, and good things
happen. If you’re stuck doing something you don’t
like, you’re not on purpose. It’s spiritually depressing
to be stuck in a rut of a job that taxes you daily.
We weren’t
put here on Earth to just slog away at some job we hate until
we retire at 65 with the gold watch and die shortly thereafter.
When we’re on purpose, we’re fired up and going for
it. We jump out of bed and get to go do what we love. Therefore,
you can easily see why it’s important to find your true
purpose in life and follow it.
Here’s
how. Go back to your past. Find what kind of experiences lent
themselves to you losing track of time and getting lost in pure
bliss. Now, when you can figure out how to make money at that,
you’re really onto something. In fact, you’re well
on your way to living your dream lifestyle.
Avoid asking
yourself immediately how you can make money doing what you love.
That may be too difficult a question right now. Instead, ask yourself
how you can add value to others’ lives while you do what
you love? Go ahead and do this now. How specifically can you add
value to other people’s lives while doing what you love?
Write the answer down that pops into your mind.
- Can you
demonstrate it to others for entertainment?
- Can you
teach it to others to empower their lives?
- Can you
sell the fruits of your labor by putting it into a product?
- Can you
consult with others who would willingly pay for your expertise?
Suppose you
love to travel. How can you add value to others’ lives while
traveling? The key here to keep in mind is that by adding value
to others’ lives, you’ll be compensated. Back to the
travel example.
You could
travel and then create value for others as a result of your travels:
- Write a
travel book
- Create
a travel review website
- Market
a budget travel newsletter
Or you could
get a job where a side benefit of your job is to travel.
- Become
a roadie for a worldwide concert tour
- Become
a pilot or airline attendant
- Work as
a buyer for an import/export business
My point is
that you can create a lifestyle around your passion and your true
purpose. Let me submit myself as an example. My personal mission
statement at this time in my life is, “Live my dreams and
give back to others in a win/win way.” Pretty straightforward.
I asked myself what I could do that was consistent with my personal
mission.
And I came
to where I’m at now. I create and market information products
that serve people and empower their lives. After reading hundreds
of books, going to countless seminars, and performing who-knows-how-many
exercises on myself, I decided I wanted to help others in the
same way. That’s when I founded my business.
My friend
relayed to me the story of a guy who just loved to sleep. That’s
it. He had nothing that truly fired him up, where his heart burned
with passion and eyes glistened with positive emotion. He just
loved to sleep. So if he loved to sleep, how could you go fashion
a livelihood out of this? In other words, how can this guy serve
others by sleeping?
Here’s
what I’ve come up with:
- He could
create a book on how to get a good night’s rest (Who wouldn’t
want to sleep soundly and wake up rested?)
- He could
create an audio program to help people sleep easily
- He could
find sleep research institutes and volunteer to be a subject
for their sleep-related experiments
- He could
give talks and radio interviews on how to “powernap”
for 20 minutes for an immediate boost in mental clarity and
energy
- He could
create his own sleep laboratory where he tests different ways
of sleeping to find what gives the most restful sleep and then
publish the results in a scientific journal
This is just
sleep and it’s admittedly a harder subject than others.
Your passion is going to be easier to turn into what you do for
a living. Recall times in the past when you were happiest. During
your day-to-day life now, note when you’re feeling awesome.
How can you turn that into what you do?
Mark Twain
said, “Happiness is making your vacation your vocation.”
I wholeheartedly agree!
Kent Sayre
is a worldwide persuasion expert and author of “The Ultimate
Persuasion Formula” available at: www.TheUltimatePersuasionFormula.com
Furthermore, he is the author of the bestselling book “Unstoppable
Confidence” endorsed by such celebrity authors as Brian
Tracy, Robert Allen, and Jim Rohn.
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