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Originally Posted by Magnus  that it's silly to think that it is all done and wrapped up by writing your little business plan for life?[/i] |
Something in that direction, yeah.
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I would like to ask where do you think one should begin in that case? You think it's not of any importance at all to write down lifelong goals, or just minor importance? From my point of view, where I am starting, I'd say that I'd better learn to crawl before I try to walk. Then constantly develop.
Explain to people, who basically let other people live their life, that they should find their life's purpose in the way you describe. I think they wouldn't know where to start.
I'm I on the right track here? I think this is interesting and I'd like you to define/explain a little more how one would go about it in a better way. Since we are all here to learn.
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There is always some things you want to do. Always some thoughts you want to think. Find out which ones are really "you"... The opposite would be thought and ideas coming from the outer world and that are only loosely connected to what is you, your personality.
It's very much about finding yourself. I think meditation can be of good use, maybe creative work... And
always observing what you think, feel, say, hear. Introspection!
It's about congruence between the inner you and "you". It's just simple self-actualization (see "Maslow") without putting so much belief in our verbal skills when it comes to maybe the most complex "thing" we know of.
Not simple, will probably take half a life to start living according to this principle momemt by moment. But I still feel it is the right way to go.
dorothy hanna: I have done it. It does not give me much. Instead I feel fulfillment coming when I act on what I truely believe is me, and I cannot articulate it.