Discover your purpose

     What is your life's purpose?  This is such a loaded and complicated question.   People get scared of it.  They laugh at it with shrugged shoulders.  It's true, it is hard to answer.  But those who know theirs, and live it, have an unmistakeable calm, presence, and drive that illicits some awe.
  
Life Purpose Today
     I think some people get scared of the heavy fixed nature of it.  I believe our life purpose is fluid.  My life's purpose has changed a couple times in my life, but generally it's been under the umbrella of helping and serving others.  Right now I believe my purpose is to help others heal, intimately connect, and enjoy my life.  

    
   To tap into your life's purpose is powerful thing.  When we know our purpose, when we feel purposeful in our actions, we are focused and led by something greater than ourselves.  A mission, if you will.  And generally, it's a positive mission that contributes to the betterment of people, places, and society at large.  Knowing our purpose helps us feel significant and keeps us motivated to work for something important.  What are you working for these days?
    
As a human race, we get to have complex interesting purposes of our choosing.  Take a bee for example.  He has a few simple purposes: to pollenate flowers and make honey.  Every bee has the same purpose and each one is important in the larger scheme of life.  So are you!  But you get to have a rich development in how you share your gifts with the world.
    
     If you want to connect with your life's purpose, you need to contact your higher self, spirit, whatever you want to call it.  This is a space where the subconcious and soul connect, and your pure knowledge of truth is accessed.  In the space of quiet, your intuition and guidance can come forth to inform you about the path you are on.  In my coaching sessions, I connect clients to this space with hypnosis: guided breathing, meditation and visuals.  Through a set of questions, clients easily open up to their own advice and answers about where they are and where they should go.
    
15 Questions To Help You Determine Your Life Purpose *

1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)

2. What are your favorite things to do in the past? What about now?

3. What activities make you lose track of time?

4. What makes you feel great about yourself?

5. Who inspires you most? (Anyone you know or do not know. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each person?

6. What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)

7. What do people typically ask you for help in?

8. If you had to teach something, what would you teach?

9. What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?

10. You are now 90 years old, sitting on a rocking chair outside your porch; you can feel the spring breeze gently brushing against your face. You are blissful and happy, and are pleased with the wonderful life you’ve been blessed with. Looking back at your life and all that you’ve achieved and acquired, all the relationships you’ve developed; what matters to you most? List them out.

11. What are your deepest values?

12. What were some challenges, difficulties and hardships you’ve overcome or are in the process of overcoming? How did you do it?

13. What causes do you strongly believe in? Connect with?

14. If you could get a message across to a large group of people. Who would those people be? What would your message be?

15. Given your talents, passions and values. How could you use these resources to serve, to help, to contribute? ( to people, beings, causes, organization, environment, planet, etc.)

     I find writing the answers to some of these questions really cleansing and supportive in getting clear about who I am and what I want out of life.  Your purpose is personal.  Your purpose should be meaningful.  Your purpose will resonate with your entire being.  It's okay if you don't know it, but taking time to think about it could lead you to some new fantastic territory! 

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* These questions were taken from "Life on Purpose":  http://thinksimplenow.com/happiness/life-on-purpose-15-questions-to-discover-your-personal-mission/