What is your purpose?

[LittD]

Has this thread been done? I couldn't find it. Anyway...

My purpose in life is to CREATE!

To create OUTPUT; of elegance, beauty, functionality, practicality, sustainability, leverage.

To change the world for the better.

To create cities.

To create beautiful relationships.

To create harmony, melody, beauty.

To create value.

To create positive change.

To create good feelings and emotions.

What's yours?

[Interpreneur]

Very cool LittD. How did you come up with those? Did you do a special exercise?

I tried doing an exercise that Steve posted on his blog about finding your purpose, but I never broke down and cried, so I guess I don't have a purpose in life yet.

[LittD]

I came up with this in a flash of inspiration after listening to Day 7 of Tony Robbins' "Get The Edge" Program.

I also did Steve's exercise, and I came up with some pretty impressive sounding statements, but nothing that made me cry or become emotional. I may be too young and sheltered to understand my deepest purpose as yet.

In "The Way of the Superior Man" by David Deida (I highly recommend this book to any adult human male), he talks about layers of purpose. By stripping back layers you get closer and closer to your deepest purpose in life. Find out what you are passionate about. What is it that gets you excited? When was the last time you felt engorged with life, and what were you doing? This is where you should live. Find out what takes you there and do it as much as humanly possible.

Then you'll hit a point where whatever it is seems silly. Deida likens it to wallpapering your house with receipts. Sure you could do it, but why would you want to? This is the universes signal for you to stop, and await instructions on your next layer of purpose. Don't strive for perfection, just engagement. Make sure you are just outside of your comfort zone, and realise that everything that happens is part of the journey; a test or a celebration.

If you don't know your purpose, you need to dig until you find it. There's no time to waste.

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by LittD

I came up with this in a flash of inspiration after listening to Day 7 of Tony Robbins' "Get The Edge" Program.

I also did Steve's exercise, and I came up with some pretty impressive sounding statements, but nothing that made me cry or become emotional. I may be too young and sheltered to understand my deepest purpose as yet.

In "The Way of the Superior Man" by David Deida (I highly recommend this book to any adult human male), he talks about layers of purpose. By stripping back layers you get closer and closer to your deepest purpose in life. Find out what you are passionate about. What is it that gets you excited? When was the last time you felt engorged with life, and what were you doing? This is where you should live. Find out what takes you there and do it as much as humanly possible.

Then you'll hit a point where whatever it is seems silly. Deida likens it to wallpapering your house with receipts. Sure you could do it, but why would you want to? This is the universes signal for you to stop, and await instructions on your next layer of purpose. Don't strive for perfection, just engagement. Make sure you are just outside of your comfort zone, and realise that everything that happens is part of the journey; a test or a celebration.

If you don't know your purpose, you need to dig until you find it. There's no time to waste.

You say that, "you may be too young and sheltered to understand" but you certainly think and write like an old monkey...

Fantastic post... very logical and well thought out... Congratulation... and my hat goes off to you...

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[JohnPlace]

I truly believe that my life purpose is this:

I want everyone to understand they are capable of overcoming obstacles, finding happiness, and living up to their potential. I want to tell people they can be more powerful than they ever dreamed, and I want to show them how.

Although I was not able to articulate my purpose until I was 34 years old, my first glimpses of it were in grade school. I was an overweight child, and the schoolyard bullies picked on me to no end.

I put up with bullies for the same reasons that people stay in abusive relationships or dead-end jobs –because I felt powerless. These childhood experiences (and many others) eventually inspired me to help others be more powerful.

[Iksander]

I envision myself standing on the deck of a starship exploring alien relics in an alien star system.

I see myself designing, engineering, and building spacecraft technology that will take humans into the space age. I can feel the thrill of commanding the first deep-space exploratory spacecraft.

I can smell the 'brand newness' of the command deck, feel the cold inky darkness that envelopes me and my ship, I can hear the reports from command staff and the excitement as we prepare for our first deep-space launch.

In my meditations I can even see all of the events and experiences that lead upto this very moment, this one moment in time which is every moment in time - the only moment that exists for me now and then. A feeling of the unknown washing over me, and the invigorating rush of adrenaline right before we launch; the same kind of feeling I got when climbing Mt. Tesuque in the middle of a blizzard with my snowboard on my back, but oh so much grander this is.

Dune (the book), Stargate, and Babylon5(my all time favorite show) are iconic for me.

[hotwired]

To trust and believe in myself, be ok with myself, live whatever life I can imagine, accept my greatness, experience complete personal freedom and help others have all of these things.