Anybody found their life purpose?

[alexplatups]

My primary purpose and mission in life is quite simple: To increase the quality
and decrease the entropy of my consciousness by eliminating my fears, ego,
& material attachments.

My strategy to accomplish this is also quite simple: By eliminating my fears,
the ego will be eliminated automatically, because without fears there is nothing
for the ego to do, it becomes UNEMPLOYED, and once this happens the material
attachments that the ego has been creating along with all kinds of fantasies
and delusions also will be eliminated. It is very similar to the domino effect.

If anyone is interested in finding out how I'm eliminating my fears, and also to add
your suggestions/comments make sure to check out the thread below:

What are your strategies for coping with or eliminating fear?

Since fears are the primary reasons that we suffer internally and externally
this domain is very important for us to study...imho...that is!

[Anthony1973]

Originally Posted by alexplatups

My primary purpose and mission in life is quite simple: To increase the quality
and decrease the entropy of my consciousness by eliminating my fears, ego,
& material attachments.

My strategy to accomplish this is also quite simple: By eliminating my fears,
the ego will be eliminated automatically, because without fears there is nothing
for the ego to do, it becomes UNEMPLOYED, and once this happens the material
attachments that the ego has been creating along with all kinds of fantasies
and delusions also will be eliminated. It is very similar to the domino effect.

If anyone is interested in finding out how I'm eliminating my fears, and also to add
your suggestions/comments make sure to check out the thread below:

What are your strategies for coping with or eliminating fear?

Since fears are the primary reasons that we suffer internally and externally
this domain is very important for us to study...imho...that is!

Good call on fear, the *&^%$£ does has a habit of finding a way in though, like a nasty computer virus.
It is getting better though!
I have an almost identical life purpose as you dude, not a coincidence Think we could all do with shedding ego's and letting a little compassion and joy in.

[Mike0149]

Recommended: "How to Discover Your Personal Mission: The Search for Meaning" by John Monbourquette

[StephanieMarigold]

Originally Posted by alexplatups

My primary purpose and mission in life is quite simple: To increase the quality
and decrease the entropy of my consciousness by eliminating my fears, ego,
& material attachments.

My strategy to accomplish this is also quite simple: By eliminating my fears,
the ego will be eliminated automatically, because without fears there is nothing
for the ego to do, it becomes UNEMPLOYED, and once this happens the material
attachments that the ego has been creating along with all kinds of fantasies
and delusions also will be eliminated. It is very similar to the domino effect.

If anyone is interested in finding out how I'm eliminating my fears, and also to add
your suggestions/comments make sure to check out the thread below:

What are your strategies for coping with or eliminating fear?

Since fears are the primary reasons that we suffer internally and externally
this domain is very important for us to study...imho...that is!

What kind of fears are you talking about? There are some fears that are actually healthy because they protect us.

[alexplatups]

@Anthony1973: Makes me happy to know other folks are interested in growing
spiritually and eliminating their deepest fears. If you have the time, check out
that fear thread, and if it is interesting for you post a comment, suggestion,
recommendation, or whatever you will feel like posting.

@StephanieMarigold: I'm talking about unconscious fears that the ego and
the intellect attempt to cover up by building fantasies and delusions in which
we all live. For me personally, the biggest fear I uncovered from childhood is
the fear of interacting with people. While I have had many relationships in my
life and many friends, plus I have been married for 17 years, and have two kids,
recently I have become aware that this fear has been causing me to do some
really stupid ♥♥♥♥♥, and since I can look back and observe my actual experience
and the actions that I have been taking all these years, the fantasy/delusion
in which I have been living was truly shocking for me, and not that easy to
admit at first. But, since I have been committed to being as honest with
myself and others during the last few months, this whole fear/ego/intellect
structure was very clear for me to see, and my awareness did not allow the
truth to be swept under the rug like all the other times.

If you read my thread about fear, you might realize that there are really no
fears that are actually healthy, because we are the ones that are creating
fears, and by becoming aware of the components of this emotion, it becomes
clear that fear is truly a dysfunctional avoidance strategy.

The fears that you are calling healthy are probably things we just know that
we shouldn't do, not because we are afraid of them, but because if we do
them we will be hurt in some way.

[MyEyeIsOpen]

You create your life purpose, you don't find it!

[saltyk9]

Originally Posted by bullard123

Life is a probationary period to determine where you will live for eternity...And that is up to the person who is living. Straight and narrow is the road that leads to everlasting life and there and very few who find it. Broad and wide is the road that leds to destruction and there are many on that road.(Quote from Jesus) Life only begins when u die...Because thats when eternity starts. So which path wil you choose? The choice is up to each person that is living

How can you say that life only begins when you die because that's when eternity starts? The definition of eternity is without beginning or end...therefore how can eternity begin when you die?

[Fred Tracy]

Originally Posted by alexb5784

But for right now, I'm mad ....but only for a temporary time.

That's pretty awesome that you can recognize that. I HATE being mad and knowing that I probably shouldn't be that way. When is it ever good to feel angry? It's almost worse to be self aware enough that you recognize this, lol.

As for life's purpose, I think that's up to everyone to define for themselves. I don't think there's some overarching goal to this existence. There's no storyline or linear sequences. It's all up to us. Luckily for me, sandbox RPGs are my favorite.

[Bricona]

I was actually talking to my friend about this yesterday. He's in Nepal, riding around on his bike and sleeping in convents. He was on Facebook and I asked him what's the point of this whole thing, "What are you trying to accomplish?"

His answer: absolutely nothing.

Right after he said that I realized that I was just being stupid, thinking as if our time really has to amount to something every second of every minute. The thing about life is that it'll end, and we can't spend are current life preparing for the future. Sometimes we just got to get a plane ticket, buy a bike, and finally see things as they are now.

[earthman]

I've been on the net for 12 hrs now. Read this thread and thought ...the purpose of life is probably on the internet by now. Found this...
How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes

[PerDev]

Life Purpose is something you decide to allow in your life.

[Nimue]

Originally Posted by earthman

I've been on the net for 12 hrs now. Read this thread and thought ...the purpose of life is probably on the internet by now. Found this...
How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes

Sounds nice
I tried this...first answer that popped in my head was "bunnies"
No, seriously, I think it's love and creativity (and breaking stuff whenever I'm down )

[Sansone]

Originally Posted by Nimue

Sounds nice
I tried this...first answer that popped in my head was "bunnies"
No, seriously, I think it's love and creativity (and breaking stuff whenever I'm down )

Everybody thinks it's creativity or breaking stuff! I think you were blazing a good new trail with bunnies.

[supertom]

For anyone serious enough i highly recommend the book "life on purpose" and so does savage

[faithsdaddy]

Tom, do you mean the one by Brad Swift?

[supertom]

Originally Posted by faithsdaddy

Tom, do you mean the one by Brad Swift?

yeah

[faithsdaddy]

Thanks. Another one for the list...

[supertom]

Life on Purpose review from steve pavlina
Life on Purpose

[NewSimon]

I've found this to be very good, if you can get it:

Teach Yourself Self-motivation : Francis Coombes: Books

It doesn't explicitly use the phrases LoA, IM, scarcity & abundance mindsets, but it does discuss them. There's a great chapter on discovering your life's purpose too.

[CallMeBaka]

Well i'm something of an existentialist, meaning isn,t inherent in the universe but that doesnt mean it can't be man made and still be meaningfull. Think of it as optimistic nihlism.

[richbacker]

I decided to join and reply based on Steve's article/exercise on finding your life's purpose. Good article, I did an exercise like that long time ago, and at the bottom Steve posts his purpose...

"to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace"

Steve, all respect for this wonderful forum and work but this to me isn't a purpose at all, it's qualities you revere (and ones I do as well).

I think one good criteria for figuring out your purpose is that it's incredibly simple. I'll use the analogy of physics and writing... you know you've hit the end when you just plain can't distill it anymore and the elements of your 'equation' are basic.

Even in the advertising world we can see the difference between good 'core' purposes ('just do it', 'think different', 'It's a show about nothing', 'it's a show about people who love each other and hollywood gets in the way' (Gary Shandling's pitch about his show..).

The problem, and I've no solution, to the question of life purpose is that it seems the same to me as 'what do I really want'. (Otherwise you'll have to tell me about someone who's sincerely pursuing a life purpose doing something they hate.)

So that said you have to look at the roles I think.. one good one is service...which a 'selfless love toward others' in my opinion. A garbage man and a surgeon can have absolutely the same commitment to service. It's their role, not their chore.

But ultimately you have to recognize that any role you come up with has infinite possibility ... to serve all of humanity if given the chance (why?... why? serve?... well isn't it really to remove suffering or help create the world you really envision?... a world that naturally gives you all the feelings you'd want to have when you want to have them?... sure seems that way for me ... so what I offer is that as best as I can tell my purpose is to 'have my word be reality' (to not be human...to be a (good) god).

Does anyone not ultimately want anything less? If there's nothing more you can want then how can't that not be you life's purpose? How can you have a purpose that means anything if it's not about getting what you want?

And that said, I offer the corollary idea that our task (not purpose) is to find happiness and meaning knowing we can't fulfill our purpose. This is why I think happiness is a moral obligation...really...moral. Happy people make the world a better place and that means closer to our word being reality.

((Baka, I am a pragmatic existentialist myself...)

[nietsdoen]

My life purpose, in at least a large part, is to show people the gift of life (it's related to the video in my sig).

This might sound vague, but for myself I know exactly what it is I need to show people. It's just hard to put into words.

I know this with complete, 100% doubtless certainty -- that's a wonderful feeling.

I did not arrive at this purpose through method; I came to it through intuition one day. Not trying. It just arrived. It said, "Hello, Meghan. I know I'm going to have to make this short so bear with me. I'm your life purpose, and you will never have to look for kme again, because from here on out I'll always be right here in your heart. No questions asked."

Yeah, I haven't slept in 18 hours, and the day has just begun, but that's basically what it said, only in feeling and in different words.

[jawillie]

Hm, not sure if I have yet, which would point to an absolute, "NO," huh?

I know I was obsessed with a need to "find it" for many years. Seeking did not reveal anything to me.

Right now, I am content with the belief I am free to create the life I desire and it won't be "wrong." See, I was so worried about getting life wrong all those years, I was just stuck in doing nothing.

Julia Cameron (Artist's Way) says that we just have to do the work, God will provide the quality. That's kinda how I look at all my life now - SHOW UP. I am finding new passions and gifts within myself the more I decide to Show up and live than in all those depressing years of "seeking."

As for why I am here? I don't know. And I am okay with that answer. I know I have a passion for empowering others, and sharing ideas of Love and Peace and Compassion with others. I also know no matter what job I hold, I can be that person I want to be. And, this makes waking up each morning so much more joyful!

[sharshar89]

Originally Posted by givejonadollar

My life purpose is Women.

Without them, there would be no purpose.

so honest

[doctormox]

The day we are born it's written on our head about our purpose and destiny. The real problem is people don't know how to decode it.

The one book, I recommend is Dan Milman's The Life you are born to live. You will get some answers, but need to verify based on the events that happened in your life.

Reflect your past, you may get some of these.

Dr. Mox

[gene2009]

Originally Posted by Bricona

I was actually talking to my friend about this yesterday. He's in Nepal, riding around on his bike and sleeping in convents. He was on Facebook and I asked him what's the point of this whole thing, "What are you trying to accomplish?"

His answer: absolutely nothing.

Right after he said that I realized that I was just being stupid, thinking as if our time really has to amount to something every second of every minute. The thing about life is that it'll end, and we can't spend are current life preparing for the future. Sometimes we just got to get a plane ticket, buy a bike, and finally see things as they are now.

I like those words said by your friend.
Every moment of our life is uniquely. So, what is a reason to spend days or ever years trying to find your life purpose. Will you be sure that that's your real one Are you sure your life purpose won't change within 5, 10 .... years.

[supertom]

Originally Posted by CallMeBaka

Well i'm something of an existentialist, meaning isn,t inherent in the universe but that doesnt mean it can't be man made and still be meaningfull. Think of it as optimistic nihlism.

mine is a tiny bit different, it was create meaningless so we could create our own meaning a bit of spirituality added to your mix.

[vinylfire]

Interesting thread. I have been on a life purpose quest on and off for a really long time. What I noticed is that no matter how much of that - "We are here to express unconditional love....release ego and be divine" stuff I formulate,it never sticks because it seems I have been programmed to view Life Purpose as some kind of all encompassing career/ profession or vocation. I always think in those terms -
My life purpose is to serve humanity and develop and use all my talents by being a dentist/ teacher/scientist/ mother/ father/ writer/ actress etc. That's the only formulation that makes sense to me. Discovering my "True" vocation. Is this a relic of high school thinking and would I be served better by redefining the whole life purpose question or by seeking and entering this elusive vocation?
I like some of the insights i have read here about the whole life purpose thing.

[ChrisGinsburg]

My purpose is simply to maximize my enjoyment of life in each moment. I could write pages to make it more complex but this is all that really needs to be said.