What is YOUR Life Purpose?

[Rivelli]

My purpose is to discover and innovate, most likely in Information Security as it is currently my top interest.

[PerDev]

My Life Purpose Is To

Explore, Contribute And Create Environment For Growth

[Pequod]

To be light and wisdom and share it with the world.

I spent 3 evenings doing Steve's 20-minutes excercise. Then I gave up.
The next morning I was enjoying a cup of coffee and suddenly I knew it.

[Erinn]

I read this post about a month ago and didn't have an answer. Maybe a vague idea... maybe... Thank you Steve and Erin.

What is MY life purpose?

To ease fear and pain. To bring hope and comfort to the world; To people, to animals, to every living thing.

[lasti]

In order to get people back to their true self. In order to be an example of humanity and love. In order to let people know that it's okay to be individual.

[Tigerlilly]

I tried one of Laura Day's suggested PI exercises on " What is my life's purpose?" lately. The answer I received:

"There's a girl standing on a low cliff at the edge of the sea, looking longingly across the water to a distant land she knows to be there but cannot see. She wears a long flowing flower printed dress and a large straw hat and tries to picture the land in her mind but instead of seeing real green fields, she only sees a watercolor painting of grean meadows. And she thinks this can't be, there must be a real land, not just a blurred painting. She dives into the sea and becomes a fish and there's a beautifully colored reef and it's vibrantly alive with joyful fish (Under the sea). Then there's Lori from Finding Nemo and she is humming (Just swimming, swimming, swimming) and Marlin& Nemo, and the turtles who let themselves be swept along by the ocean current. And then there's the golden sphere from the movie, which turns into reality whatever you think, and Samuel Jackson is standing in front of it, watching his reflection being separated from himself as he's looking into the sphere, floating away over its surface."

That's the raw intuitive material I got to my life's purpose, all I have to do now is try to interprete it.

P.S: For the ones not familiar with Day's exercise, you write your questions( a couple of them) on different slips of paper, fold'em up and mix, then one after one pick each up, and concentrate on having your intuition answer whatever question you're holding, and then you just jot down the images or sensations (sometimes it's a song) as they pop up. Once you feel a question has been ansered, you mark slip and answer respectively. After having done that with all questions, you unfold each marked slip and find out which answer belongs to which question.

[rak]

To spend my life on valueble acts.

[ShiningLight]

My life purpose is to live a life of:

AUTHENTIC SELF-EXPRESSION based on trust and openness, creativity, and healthy living;
SHARING through compassion and understanding, teaching, and meaningful contribution;
and FUN through intelligent prosperity, joy and happiness, and continual growth.

[Alexjstrandberg]

To raise consciousness and contribute to greater good in my own unique way- teaching people how to have real relationships without fighting, power struggles that are filled with love, happiness and growth.

For those looking for their mission, you might want to check out an article I wrote called How to Live and Find Your Mission

Inner game Reframe » How to Find and Live Your Mission

[cheech]

at the moment, I'm working with:

to treat all the people in my life with loving kindness

This really resonates with me, and I've found thinking in terms of it has rendered situations and decisions I might otherwise have found really challenging almost trivially easy and straightforward, so I think i must be on the right track. I'm still left with issues about who should be in my life, what I should do as my profession (I'm currently make my living playing poker online, and while for most definitions of "in my life", this doesn't directly contradict my purpose, it doesn't really align well with it either), and doesn't tackle global issues such as the environment, human rights etc. So although that will definitely be part of my purpose, I feel it may need to be expanded to properly encompass all parts of my life.

[Captain Cloudchaser]

My purpose in life is to find my purpose in life!

I jump from one thing to the next, trying to figure out if that is it, and it never is

[PianoManGidley]

I just did the 20-minute exercise...only I found it in 10 minutes. It seems so broad, though...and so big...

To help the world grow.

The only thing I know for sure about this is that to be able to do this, I must first develop myself.

[Evan]

My purpose is to shed light. This tends to translate into teaching about self-development-type-stuff and doing self-development-type-stuff by teaching.

Latest manifestation is seeing if I can use blogging as part of this.

[moriez]

I can only define my life purpose imagining myself an old guy looking back at my life. When I do that I want to be able to say that I have seen and done many things in life. Lived a full life and several lifes.

[machoman]

My purpose is to achieve all the goals which I commit myself to do

[Higgers]

Hi, I am new to the forum and have just read Steve's work re life's purpose. I wrote one sentence and cried. Very powerful indeed. My life's purpose is find the answer to coping with out my mother. I am 47 yrs old and she died when I was 4 MONTHS old. It was such a powerful revelation for me and I am so looking forward to finding the/those answers.

[openyourize]

my purpose is to share with the world how to learn to think for themselves!!! the first thing i need to do to share this is write my book, the story of me.

[supertom]

does anybody know where steve got this technique from ??

[Michael Chui]

Originally Posted by supertom

does anybody know where steve got this technique from ??

The Fourth God, undoubtedly.

[ilovetoday]

When I was younger, my parents split. Mum felt natual to take the children. She was a single mum of 5 little kids uner the age of 10. She had to support and try to find a way to get ahead in life. I think of how hard it would have been for her. I remember during that time for around a year we lived in fairly decent house in an excellent position. I asked my mother how she afforded such a place?! She told me of a lady who inspires my life goal.

This lady that owned the house at the time rented it out full furnished to my mother at well below the going rate for rentals at that time in that area. It was prime location - close to school, shops and practically waterfront, yet on a small lane. When my mother left this house, the lady gave her beack all the rent she had paid during her stay in a lump sum.

Knowing that a lady did this for my mum when she was in a time of need makes me want to give back. This lady has since passed, she left the house to The Salvation Army- a large australian charity. I feel as though this is what I am supposed to do. I would like to help out single parents and their children in their time of need.

[ar81]

My purpose is to change world. I am not suceeding too much in my immediate surroundings where I have achieved absolute failure, but in non immediate surroundings I have achieved glory.

[kpollock]

Originally Posted by LifeFirst

"To become God"


All thoughts stopped after that. I immediately felt powerful, and extremely calm...... I don't really know what that means....but I know that I will know pretty soon.

Perhaps it was a realisation that we all have all the powers over our lives and experiences that are commonly attributed to God? It's a central concept to me.

That's what I'd mean by saying "I am God". As has occasionally seemed the most concise thing to say. :-).

[kpollock]

Originally Posted by Silent Lucidity

Songwriter,

I love to sing, and compose melodies, but I'm not as good at lyrics...not in a conventional way anyhow, my lyrics are very 'abstract' kind of like abstract paintings.

sounds like it could be quite lovely. You should go with that, *especially* since it seems different from the norm (though voice as instrument crops up in all sorts of laces from jazz, to prog rock to "mouth music").

Art is about conveying/sharing/stimulating emotion, right? (feel free to disagree...). Certain melodies/progressions do that, big style, even without words... (and even fairly consistently - I haven't got a reference, but sacred music uses such methods a lot, IIRC)

I say go for it! And post links when you have some recordings :-).

I like to sing (good voice, but only octave and half range), and compose songs (not so often at the moment) I do both lyrics and melody - which I thought for so long was not the accepted way (for bluesy rock) that I never had the courage to go for it.

[melon]

To be peace and bring peace.

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Michael Chui

The Fourth God, undoubtedly.

whats that