Values and life purpose

[vai123]

I am 18 years old, and I play guitar. I plan on going to college for something with classical guitar/ music, and psychology. Im thinking about music education, and psychology( more specifically, the psychology of learning). I am trying to figure out my values and my purpose statement right now and I seem to have some problems with it.
The problem is that I feel as though my main purpose is to help others through music and art, but I spend most of my time practicing, and learning. I feel like I dont really live what i think I should i guess. It almost seems as though thats what I feel like I should do, but I really would rather be by myself. This is kind of incongruent. I mean I feel like I want to, but I just dont do anything to help people with music. Maybe I really believe that music really doesnt help people?
I use the idea of helping people to motivate myself to take action, but I always put my own musical problems first. Any suggestions?

[Angela]

You sure "helping people" is your purpose? Is that what REALLY inspires you right now?

What are your top 5 values? Narrowing down the qualities and conditions you are most passionate about will probably help you to determine your purpose.

[robertanthony]

Originally Posted by Angela

You sure "helping people" is your purpose? Is that what REALLY inspires you right now?

What are your top 5 values? Narrowing down the qualities and conditions you are most passionate about will probably help you to determine your purpose.

Vai123

It's your lucky day. There is a site called All About Emotional Intelligence for Business, Education, Families, and Personal & Professional Development they have a tool called a digital value sorter - that works out your values after you answer 90 questions. It then asks you how you are applying those values and gives you a report for free.

The digital value sorter is on the top right hand corner of the page.

I would love to hear how you get on.

[Angela]

Here's another one values sorter that Steve posted in an article about the subject some time ago. You don't have to sign up for an account for this one.

[robertanthony]

Hi Angela

That good to know that there are a few sorters out there. Would like to see if the results match. This kind of research is major.

[Angela]

Robertanthony, the one I linked is pretty mechanical -- you pick your fave-rave qualities and then narrow them down by comparing each to all 19 others, one at a time. So the more you pick in your original pool, the more time you spend narrowing down. It becomes pretty apparent which ones are most important to you as you click through.

Is that how yours works?

[robertanthony]

Hi Angela

The one I have used is ( either / or ) answers and the sorter does the work.