Life Purpose and Career

[erego]

Do you have/are living your Life Purpose? If you would, please share and elaborate.

What about your career?

How do you express your Life Purpose in your career?

[unnati]

The purpose of life come as and when time changes. This is what I feel
When one has made its goal of life n if its not getting fulfilled, it shatters you up. This is what i feel about the career purpose.
And as per spiritual level my purpose is never to get angry n never to hurt anyone (to be as sweet and nice as possible to the people every one near me).
PS: I am the one who never takes time to get angry on any minor issue.. Still m working on it..

Make goals no doubt as that gives the strength to live but don't rely on them. Be very flexible in your life. Thats the key to happiness...

[geekchic9]

Originally Posted by erego

Do you have/are living your Life Purpose? If you would, please share and elaborate.

I'm starting to live my purpose. Part of it is "To help people who think they can't know they can." That's all I'm sure about at this point.

Originally Posted by erego

What about your career?

How do you express your Life Purpose in your career?

It hasn't really started yet, as I am working on my first post for my new blog. I want to be a writer who focuses on personal development for people with mental health issues. A lot of my audience feels trapped and helpless. That's why I plan to do something to help them realize that they're not. I want to be the person I needed when I was very depressed. That in itself is very fulfilling.

[The Synchronicity Expert]

I just wanted to say, your career is most often NOT your purpose. Imagine, if you will, that a person chooses to be a Doctor. That person may become a doctor because it pays well, because they love science or physiology, because their parent/s were Doctors or because they feel a need to remove suffering from the world. Whatever the motivation, it isn't wrong. However, does this make "being a Doctor" their purpose?

The answer may be that in the process of being a Doctor, the side effect is that they are saving people from something that could have taken their lives, to allow them to fulfill their purpose. It's a side effect, and I think this most often is the real "purpose" we provide. It is rarely what we set out to do, but the side effects of doing it.

That said, I think that most people who are looking to find their purpose would be best served by providing service and value to the world. Don't pursue things for money. Money isn't purpose. Do things because they will leave the world a better place. Focusing your efforts to this effect will almost certainly cause beneficial side effects that will begin to carry out your "real" purpose.

Also, as I've studied synchronicity now for 30 years, I've found that clues to your purpose will show up over time. As you progress forward through your life, the pieces begin to fill in like a puzzle. If we wait to discover our purpose, it may well take our entire life just to find out what it was. So pushing the service/value driven intent will encourage the higher road in life.


All the best!
Bill White
The Synchronicity Expert

[erego]

Originally Posted by unnati

The purpose of life come as and when time changes. This is what I feel
When one has made its goal of life n if its not getting fulfilled, it shatters you up. This is what i feel about the career purpose.
And as per spiritual level my purpose is never to get angry n never to hurt anyone (to be as sweet and nice as possible to the people every one near me).
PS: I am the one who never takes time to get angry on any minor issue.. Still m working on it..

Make goals no doubt as that gives the strength to live but don't rely on them. Be very flexible in your life. Thats the key to happiness...

Sorry, let me clarify: I'm not looking for advice and would like responses to pertain practically to the topic, much like how geekchic9 has done.

[Will Edwards]

Personal Development is my passion. I believe that life holds a specific purpose for you; and the most important thing you can do is ... find it!

Personal Mission Statement

To walk humbly with God, live a balanced life and focus my lifework around the principle of encouraging others.

Finding my Calling ...

One day, I was driving along listening to a tape; and, although I had heard the basic message many times before, on this occasion, it really struck home. I remember hearing the words, " ... how can you achieve a goal you have not even set?"

And for once those words found real resonance within me. I thought to myself, if I were to set some really big goals, and if those goals did not come to pass, only I would know; and so there would be no reason to not give the process a try. It was the little push I needed at the time.

So I took myself off to Clevedon and sat at the end of the pier with a flask of soup, a notebook - the old-fashioned paper-type - and pen. I was there for about three or four hours asking myself those deep questions about what my own life is about and what is most important to me. At the end of the session, I had quantified four really big goals; the first of which was to become a Personal Development consultant within three years.

Founding White Dove Books ...

Around Christmas 2003, I started White Dove Books just as an outlet for my own writing. By them I was running Personal and Professional Development courses in the UK and I thought I could provide my delegates with an additional useful resource.

Within its first three years, the site became recognised as one of the internet's leading Personal Development sites; breaking into the top 100,000 sites on the internet for the first time, according to Alexa's rankings at the end of 2005.

The Inspiration Newsletter was started in 2005 as a way of providing useful information including tips and techniques for living life to the full, interesting articles and free inspirational ebooks to our members.

In 2006, we were granted permission by the talented artist Rameer Tawasil to use his design as the logo for our website. Although we now have a new dove logo, we continue to support Rameer's campaign for world peace.

Today White Dove Books works in partnership with many authors and on-line publishers of inspirational material to provide a quality on-line service that serves thousands of people in dozens of countries across the world.

So yes: I have found - and I am living - my Life Purpose.

Will

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by erego

Do you have/are living your Life Purpose? If you would, please share and elaborate.

What about your career? How do you express your Life Purpose in your career?

I enjoy! life, 1st of all. As well, I enjoy! guiding... people (who were led to belief they can't) know they can... (whatever their goals are) - Contributing to positive human developments... is my primary passion & career

[erego]

Innnteresting, Will Edwards. Thank you for sharing. I was looking for examples like that.

I somehow missed the post by The Synchronicity Expert. You, too, thanks for advising. I have already created my Life Purpose and am sure of what to do with my life. I am not one to confuse career and my purpose.

My enigma I am going to solve, which is the reason I seek inspiration from you guys, is how to express my Life Purpose through my career. Steve's advice that you spend half your life on your job, so it's best to use that time being fulfilled, resounded with me.

Just throwing it out here. You know in life you have those moment be it with your family, your friends, the world, whatever; for that one moment you're all together, laughing sharing connected--for that one moment everything is perfect. You're joyous. You look around and you see us. The Oneness. Part of my Life Purpose is to create such moments for people. To remind people of them because many people forget. All the strife and conflict between people and the world. But I don't know how to. So my life purpose: To realise my maximum growth and to create Oneness.

I am waiting for a couple of books to help me find my ideal career, based on strengths and likes etc. This thread, then, is to give me ideas of how other people express their life purpose through their career.

[SimonaRich]

If you want to find a life purpose you should follow your heart. Never struggle because that means that you are heading to the wrong direction.

I don't like to talk about career aligning to the life purpose because that means working for someone else. And that is soul-crushing work.

[Angela]

I've been living my purpose for awhile now... To boldly generate and facilitate free-flowing love and joy -- but it took quitting my 9-5 job to get myself to where I'm really living purposefully in my career. Now I'm in the middle of training as an NLP coach/hypnotherapist, and I'm excited to be able to really make a difference in the realm of free-flowing love and joy in my own life and in the lives of others.

I've since shortened my mouthful of a purpose to being: A Joy Activist.

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by Angela

I've since shortened my mouthful of a purpose to being: A Joy Activist.

god knows we more of those

[2HappyNow]

Sounds like an exciting endeavor Angela! Where are you being trained as a hypnotherapist/NLP coach?

Sounds like something I'd be interested in...

Originally Posted by Angela

I've been living my purpose for awhile now... To boldly generate and facilitate free-flowing love and joy -- but it took quitting my 9-5 job to get myself to where I'm really living purposefully in my career. Now I'm in the middle of training as an NLP coach/hypnotherapist, and I'm excited to be able to really make a difference in the realm of free-flowing love and joy in my own life and in the lives of others.

I've since shortened my mouthful of a purpose to being: A Joy Activist.

[overarch]

To help people understand that they DO wield power and control in and over their lives... all they need to do is seize it!

[dice]

life purpose:

Carpe Diem, for you and me. Like steven tyler wrote:
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away

To help everyone realize the acid-induced lyrics from The Beatles:
I am here as you are here
as you are me
and we are all together.'

Wars will end when every single individual embraces that

career:

entertainment (different from 'commercial distraction' aka. most of hollywood)

Hollywood = the bodybuilder who does nothing but show off his guns and his veins.
Entertainment = the Tai Chi artist who wows, but doesn't care if he wows. He does it for himself and for peace of mind.

Agreed?

What am I saying, I'm not even old enough to drink yet!

[erego]

dice,

yes, but, how do you do that? career aligning with life purpose; expressing so to say.

[dice]

Originally Posted by erego

dice,

yes, but, how do you do that? career aligning with life purpose; expressing so to say.

the same way that the beatles/aerosmith did with the songs/lyrics i posted.

different medium, same base.

purpose = be in the moment while fully eclipsing the differences between people and help others do the same. you gotta catch people sideways to do this, and thats what the best entertainment does. catches you off guard and opens your mind. hence the connection.

as you know, 'the mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open'

[supertom]

finding your purpose and passion is too hard

[dice]

Originally Posted by supertom

finding your purpose and passion is too hard

i actually think people know what it is instinctively by about age 10 or earlier.

I bet you know what it is, you just havent embraced it yet.

[supertom]

Originally Posted by dice

i actually think people know what it is instinctively by about age 10 or earlier.

I bet you know what it is, you just havent embraced it yet.

It was sports related but i cant do it now cause im too old.