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Old 11-06-2006, 08:43 PM
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To live for, with, and in happiness.
To nourish and maintain the happiness of others.
To make it all worthwhile.
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Old 11-06-2006, 09:07 PM
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My purpose? To help others grow, to help others make their own health and peace, and to enjoy life.
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Old 11-06-2006, 09:12 PM
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To create insanely great things.

To experience, express and enrich the world through creation and cause others to do so.

To create insanely great things that express, enrich and cause others to experience life at a greater level.
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With a strong, open body, pulse love and forgiveness; sweat for change and understanding.
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Old 11-06-2006, 09:19 PM
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I am not 100% sure but I know that my purpose needs to help others in a significant way while utilizing my engineering skills to the fullest.

My dream job is probably something in neuroengineering helping to assist crippled people to move and people with brain stem strokes to function somewhat normally etc. Eventually I believe neuroengineering will help all people to live happier more productive lives, so I would love to be involved. All I need is a PhD from a top university lol...

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Old 11-06-2006, 09:52 PM
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My goal and passion is to help and support others to make their dreams come true. I am so passioned about it that I have developed a software that I just released.

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Old 11-06-2006, 10:12 PM
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the trapeze girl

swinging back and forth
like a bauble on a chain
diamond pink streak sailing
over rainbow clowns, over guess your weight

shut her eyes tight and she grinned
and she dropped inside the wind

she always knew
without asking why
when to hold on tighter
when to trust her gut and fly

and she never lost her nerve
and she learned to leap through fire
how to pump her little legs
how to swing the circle higher

help me swing the circle higher
help me make the circle wider
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Old 11-07-2006, 01:51 AM
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To hack the world.
To make every Good Thing in our lives faster, more open, more accessible, more adaptable.
To learn from the great examples of the Bad Things, in order to reverse-engineer them and put them to work for good.
To help spread the thirst for knowledge and creativity.

How this applies to me... well, I've always thought that what the world really needs is not more stuff, but better use of the stuff we already have. To take a very local example, your computer - if you're using it to do something that can be described more easily as "Work" than "Creation," then you're not using it properly. A computer is there waiting for you to tell it what to do, and then to sit there and do it.

I hope to shift people's perceptions of machines in general and computers in specific more towards the viewpoint that work is for machines, and creation is for people, and the two should not cross. Hopefully, that'll inspire better machines, less work, and more time for humans to spend doing things that really matter.

(apologies if that didn't make much sense, it's ten to three in the morning here, and the whole "Becoming an Early Riser" thing is something I'm still struggling with)
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That really strikes a chord with me. Very touching...

As for me, my general purpose is to be a "light worker" (I like that term) but as to the specific application of which I am still unsure.
That's what I'm thinking of, Brendon - "light worker".. but something like what steve pavlina is doing right now is not light I think. Maybe we have to change it to "smart worker", because "light worker" means "light money"

Like steve, he works so positively-but-not-light, but he's like soooo energetic. I was like, how can I be like him? Ughhh...
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My goal and passion is to help and support others to make their dreams come true. I am so passioned about it that I have developed a software that I just released.

Check it out at:
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May all your dreams come true...
very cool!!!!
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Old 11-07-2006, 12:23 PM
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I think my purpose is to create joy, and to nurture. I have a fondness for seeing people grow up well.

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To transcend limiting beliefs, create peace and prosperity for all, and help develop others to do the same.
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Old 11-07-2006, 05:00 PM
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Default Purpose - For the moment

I believe that one's purpose evolves and changes as that person evolves, changes and understands more of themselves.

Right now I believe my purpose to be:

To be a conscious decision maker who leads myself and others to financial and personal success to be used for the betterment of society and of individual lives.

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To use my skills as an information liaison to help others improve their happiness, health, wealth and peace of mind.

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I'd like to share this from my blog:

My purpose in life:

General purpose:

* Help to discover the meaning of life or become a smart enough being to help define the meaning of life.
* After you’ve discovered it, live accordingly and let others know about it.

Current specific purpose:

* Help the best you can in the creation of smarter than human beings and making the lives of those beings as significant and great as possible.
* Make as much money as possible to help you in your journey and use it the best way you can.
* Become a smarter than human being.
* Live to best serve your purpose.
* If you fail, the least you can do is raise a son and pass this journey onto him.

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Live, love, learn, leave a legacy.
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To love all, to cherish every moment.
For some reason, this really resonated with me! In fact, I felt this strange surge of emotion when I read it. I even came back to it after reading everything else and I still caused the same weird feeling for me.

I'm not sure if this is really my own purpose or not, but there's something about it that feels right.

Now, here's my thing... I've always wanted to be a full time investor/trader. I'd like to treat stock trading as a business, and would love to do this more than any other type of business I've tried. I'm certainly not ready for this yet because I have a lot of learning to do before I would be able to.

But, how does one reconcile the desire to be a stock trader with having a life purpose that really adds value and helps other people? I want to do those things, but I'm not sure how that fits with trading the markets. For a trader to make money, someone else loses money.

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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

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I want to help and entertain others. Right now, I'm focussing on entertaining people by writing and filmmaking and so on.
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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

We are only human, so just do the best you can.
the end of that einstein quote is where i got the last 2 lines of my song posted above. that's my life purpose -- to swing the circle higher, and make it wider, so evenutally no one is outside looking in.
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This world seems inherently broken, chaotic, disorganized. My purpose is to make sense of everything, and organize the world. I strive to remove artificial limitations from peoples imaginations.

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My purpose is to become an economist and make economic policy for the country or world that may help hundreds, thousands, or millions of people. I also want to be a true friend and be surrounded by many loved ones throughout my life.
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Hey all! did Steve's excercise, and I narrowed things down to the following:

My Life's Purpose:
To help people find connectedness with themselves, others, and the universe, through my presence, my creativity (of all kinds) and contributing strategically to organizations who are working towards the above in a way that is congruent with how the world should be.

For those of you who haven't yet - log off this forum, (and turn off your computer), and quiet yourself to find the answers within!

Power on!

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For some reason, this really resonated with me! In fact, I felt this strange surge of emotion when I read it. I even came back to it after reading everything else and I still caused the same weird feeling for me.

I'm not sure if this is really my own purpose or not, but there's something about it that feels right.

Now, here's my thing... I've always wanted to be a full time investor/trader. I'd like to treat stock trading as a business, and would love to do this more than any other type of business I've tried. I'm certainly not ready for this yet because I have a lot of learning to do before I would be able to.

But, how does one reconcile the desire to be a stock trader with having a life purpose that really adds value and helps other people? I want to do those things, but I'm not sure how that fits with trading the markets. For a trader to make money, someone else loses money.

Gemini4X
Gemini,
What about green investing? - I can't r