{"id":482,"date":"2010-09-20T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:20:52","slug":"how-to-discover-your-life-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Discover Your Life Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Learn how to discover <strong>your life purpose<\/strong>, find the true meaning of life and discover your personal mission in the following article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><em>First of all, a few introducing thoughts:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Definition of purpose <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\/ purpose definition:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Purpose<\/span><\/strong> is an aim, goal, vision or dream towards a person strives or for which someone exists. Furthermore it is an effect or result that is desired to reach or accomplish. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The purpose of life <\/strong><\/span>can be the reason for which a person is doing specific actions with the intention to accomplish an anticipated outcome.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Introduction: How to discover your life purpose?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ambition to <strong>discover the purpose of life<\/strong> is nearly as old as mankind. We humans have the striving desire to demonstrate to ourselves and others that we actually do have a purpose in life. Unfortunately, a lot of us waste their time wondering what their purpose could be, which is neither fulfilling nor fun, especially when not able to <strong>discover life&#8217;s purpose<\/strong> or <strong>the true meaning of life<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is very important to consider that <strong>your life purpose<\/strong> might have a lot in common with activities that motivate, inspire and fulfill you, which could be your career or a vision that is not related to your professional life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">True purpose of life \/ true goals and visions<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">True goals<\/span> are things you really want to accomplish and when you achieve these you feel joy, fulfillment and true happiness. A true goal should never ever be something that was predetermined by society, your friends or parents (social conditioning) and especially nothing others believe you should do! You will discover a true goal when you feel the burning desire that you really want to achieve it, the feeling to do whatever it takes to reach that specific goal (<a title=\"How to reach your goals?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/2010\/achieve-success-reach-your-goals\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reach your goals<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Part I: How to discover your life purpose?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how to discover your personal mission<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the true purpose in life<\/span> or even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the meaning of the universe<\/span> (in case you are really ambitious!)? Well, first of you should erase all the ideas and thoughts that are popping into your mind right now about your job, your short- and long-term goals. These thoughts might just be irritating when trying to find your purpose in life, especially as these purposes and aims are mostly not related to the true meaning of your life. <strong><em>Set yourself free from false purposes<\/em><\/strong> that society, friends or your parents have taught you in order to become independent from outside influences. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Your true purpose in life<\/span><\/em> can only be discovered when you focus on yourself! <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today we are going to focus on the very reason YOU exist!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once you set yourself free from false purposes we can focus on the question: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>How to discover your purpose in life?<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m going to explain two different techniques that shall help you in awakening your life purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3850\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3850 \" title=\"The purpose of life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/discover-the-meaning-of-life.jpg\" alt=\"Purpose\" width=\"350\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/discover-the-meaning-of-life.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/discover-the-meaning-of-life-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/discover-the-meaning-of-life-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The discovery of the ultimate purpose of your life will give you an incredible boost of motivation and energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Technique no. 1 \u2013 The Brainstorming Approach<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take a piece of paper &#8211; preferable a big one that can evolve to a mind map<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Write your question down like: \u201cWhat is the true purpose in my life?\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Write down whatever pop&#8217;s into your mind<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Write down related, similar or other thoughts and start to evolve these<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Start to formulate topics for similar and related thoughts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once you have a lot of topics you can start to formulate purposes for everyone<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Repeat no. 3-6 until you have really no idea what to write anymore<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Summarize all your purposes and let them become your true purpose in life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To clarify this method I&#8217;ve drawn a suggestion how the brainstorming process could look like, with some general purposes\/thoughts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/true-purpose-in-my-life.jpg\" alt=\"Purpose\" width=\"520\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/true-purpose-in-my-life.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/true-purpose-in-my-life-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">t&#8217;s as simple as that. The more open-minded you are, and the better you are able to clear your head of all the false purposes and the social conditioning the better the final results of this technique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It might take some time and many thoughts need to be written down before you finally are able to distinct between false purposes and true purposes in life. You only need to be persistent in order to get an overview of the true meaning of your life, but once you discover it the answer will feel like a flood of positive emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t let yourself getting distracted or interrupted while you try <strong>to find your purpose in life<\/strong>. You might even want to quit the whole exercise, because excuses will start to arise. This is the point where you need to show persistence and make yourself aware that the rewards of this brainstorming will have an amazing influence in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My final answer was: <em>My purpose in life is to enjoy life as much as possible and to live it with gratefulness; without anger. I want to help others and make this world a better and more peaceful place to live in; for my family, friends and every human being<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Technique no. 2 \u2013 The \u201cWhat would you do if,\u2026\u201d Approach<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I personally prefer technique no. 1, but if you are facing some <strong>problems to find the true purpose of your life<\/strong> with the first method (described above) you might want to have a look at the second technique:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Imagine that your doctor told you that you have a condition and you therefore only have one year left to live. <em>What would you do<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once again, you can take out a piece of paper and write at top of it in big letters: \u201c<em>What would I do if I only had one year to live?<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Find answers to your question.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Summarize your answers and let them become your true purpose in life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just as described in the first method you can feel free to write down the first ideas and thoughts that pop into your mind. Discovering your purpose might be the most difficult part, but it is absolutely necessary so that you can focus on the accomplishment of the true purpose of your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Part II: How to pursue your purpose?<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second part would explode this article. It is therefore covered up in another article: <a title=\"How to set goals?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/personalgoalsetting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerful Goal Setting<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Quotes about purpose \/ life purpose quotes:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cThe way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.\u201d<\/em><\/span> ~ Mitch Albom<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<em>You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.<\/em>\u201d <\/span>~ Jerry Gillies<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<em>The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it.<\/em>\u201d<\/span> ~ Katherine Whilehaen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photo by former flickr member pardeshi, released under CC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have you already discovered the purpose of your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to discover your life purpose, find the true meaning of life and discover your personal mission in the following 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