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Originally Posted by dice  Everyone has the same purpose it seems. From Think and Grow Rich, Hill said that a purpose like 'grow and inspire and be the best' is about as specific as a frog's ability to compare of the size and capacity of the entire universe to itself. |
I've been thinking that. I wrote a couple of posts here but they still didn't quite feel right; I kept on thinking, "how is this different from other people?"
When I did my reading with Erin, though, she mentioned a part of my purpose (I think it was implicit that I'd find out the rest of my purpose for myself. I didn't ask further because I had other things to worry about) and it was like, "oh yeah, that's obvious". It was something I had always known, that I had already been living. I was just being reminded of it.
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I don't think that "Inspire" or "be the best" or "end war" is a purpose. It can't be. I'm not driven by generalities like that for some reason. It's too easy to rationalize anything into the category of "inspiring". Eating a salad today 'inspired' my mom to throw away the potato chips. Purpose fufilled, I can die now. No!
What was Micheal Phelps purpose? I don't know if such a broad scope of thinking could've led him to win 8 gold medals. "To inspire?" or "To swim 24 laps in 8 minutes and 34 seconds and 6 milliseconds." Do you see? They are synonyms (breaking a record is inspiring) but one is a purpose, the other is just a feeling.
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Well those are more like goals. I think the Life Purpose is more like a message or energy you're here to embody and express. Something you are which comes before what you do. Like
your message is like to show people that things are more than they appear on the surface, right?