How to Find Your Life Purpose

Have you ever tried asking yourself what your life purpose is?  This is a very simple and common question, but very hard to answer (unless you've discovered yours a long time ago).  When you are new to this, it's okay.  The news is that you are not alone.  It's the hardest question to answer though because it needs deep searching from within you.  But don't let the days pass without you finding out what your life purpose is.  You could be missing the real fulfillment of life if you don't. 
  
There are a lot of sources that can help you find it.  One of them is through reading books.  I'm not saying you can find the direct answer from them, but they can be ways to help you.  Many books out there are effective and life-changing.  It only depends on you what to follow based on your liking.  

As much as possible, I want to tell you here the simplest and clearest ways to help you find your life purpose.  But before we go to that, let's find out why there's a need to find it.


The importance of finding your life purpose

The moment we were in our mother's womb, God already had a plan for us.  It says in Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, a plan to prosper you and not to harm you, a plan to give you a hope and a future.  

The thing is it's our part to find what the detail is.  If only God had told us or our parents right away what our life purpose was, life would have been easy and smooth.  But it doesn't work that way.  We have a part to do, and that is to search for it.  

It is very crucial to find your life purpose.  Why?  Because if you know it, you will live a life that is directed and planned.  There will be less wasted time as you will not be in the dark groping, not knowing where to go and what to do.  

Before moving on, I want you to first remove all the negative thoughts you have about life, about your current situation whatever it is.  I want your mind emptied with all your negative experiences and start focus on the positive side that this will bring you.  


Where do you excel?

One way of finding your life purpose is to know where you excel at.  If you are already successful with what you do (and you love doing it), good for you.  You deserve an applause.  That means you are mindful of your life and are already near finding your life purpose.  

For you who aren't there yet, ask yourself now what it is.  When you were young (let's say during your grade school), what was it that you really loved doing and excelled?  It would be in arts, writing, singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, public speaking, helping others, etc.  I want you to go back to that time and reminisce.  

This is not hard.  Just let your mind relax.  Now, start imagining the memories you had when you were little.  Ask yourself this question, what am I good at?  Flashes are there, and your mind provides you the answer.  It's time to grasp those pieces of images coming into your mind and take whatever you see fit.  It is like you are looking for a missing piece of the puzzle in your life.

Realizations might come, and it's okay.

After going back to your past, you might feel a tinge of regret.  Just let it pass.  Past is past, and you can't go back there to repair whatever damage it caused you.  It is not the end of life yet.  Meaning you can redeem the time by doing what your heart tells you to do now.

The reason you are probably stuck in your life is because you haven't been doing what you are really good at.  It may be a big shift and challenge for you if you go do it, but it's better to do it now than never and continue to live a life discontented and dissatisfied.  

There might be a lot that has happened in your life for the past long years, and looking for life purpose hasn't been in your mind.  Your head is probably occupied with a lot of things you need to face at the present, and you think that finding your life purpose is a waste of time.  

I want you to stop thinking that way and start focus on developing that talent or skill that flashed in your mind instead.  That is the treasure you have.  Once developed, it will bring you fulfillment in life. 


Know your passion

There's nothing more fulfilling in life than living your life purpose.  Another way to discover it is by knowing your passion.  

Imagine anything that you are really interested in.  Whenever you see and hear something like it on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, the internet, books, etc, it makes you cry.  Tears well up in your eyes, and you can't control them.  You don't understand why you feel that way.  There is an intense reaction and desire from within you.  It's just like the message of it compels you to do the same thing.  It really stirs you up emotionally.

That is your passion. 

When it comes and you experience that strange moment, don't let it pass.  Have a self check and think of finding ways to bring that passion into action.  I'm not telling you to do it drastically and leave your day job.  You can do it gradually like when you have free time.  Anyway, it will not be an effort for you since that is your passion.   You will notice that you will just go with the flow.  All you will feel is the pleasure of doing it.

I have discovered that my passion is in motivating people through writing.  I just knew about it last month or a few weeks ago.  I tried blogging as a hobby since I felt like I was bored doing nothing.  While writing about these topics, I felt like I have found my niche.  I felt the energy surged in my body that I didn't feel tired, hungry, or anything.  I felt like there was music in the air that I couldn't stop, but continue what I was doing.  

You may experience the same thing when you start doing your passion.  

Don't be scared.  Try it as a hobby first, then you will find out what's next.  It depends on you if you follow what your instinct tells you.  I tell you this will be an exciting moment for you as you will know yourself better and that you can do more.

Remember, it takes a mind, heart, and body to bring out your passion.


Share your passion

Sharing your passion is your life purpose.  You are not here on earth just to live for yourself  or for your pleasure and to benefit from it.   You are a very valuable person who is capable of doing valuable things and changing the lives of other people.  Who knows maybe you are the only person capable of reaching out and touching someone's life.  You may ease their burden while sharing your passion with them.  It would not be me, your family, your friends, or anyone but you and you alone.  

Isn't it amazing that someone's life might be changed because of you sharing your passion with them?   Yes, that's really amazing.  You will feel your worth of living here and it will motivate you to do more. 

Knowing your passion and life purpose are the greatest things you can contribute to the world.  It may be very little, but it matters.  There's nothing unworthy if you do it from your heart.  It is what makes this world grow and become a better place to live.  If that is what's in the mind and heart of people, how great is our world to live.

Face your Fear

I will not ask you if you have fears because I know you have.  All of us have.  What I want to ask you is what would you try if you had no fear?  Have you ever asked yourself that question?  

Fears may vary from person to person, but we all have them.  Do you know a person who isn't afraid of something?  Maybe, there's no one.  I know even the most powerful person here on earth is still afraid of something, but for sure he knows how to face it.  

All of us have fears, and that's human nature.  When we were infants, our most dominant emotion was fear.  So, it's just like fear has been there since our birth.  It's there inside of us, maybe engraved in our spirit, which is not easy to take away.  

The challenge here is how did some people face and conquer fear?  Can you also change your situation upside down by facing fear, breaking through it, and moving your life to the next level?  I'm here to tell you, yes, you can.


What you should know about fear

According to The Free Dictionary, FEAR is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.  Notice that fear begins with a belief, so it might be that a circumstance hasn't happened yet, but you've heard of it.  Or it has happened sometime in the past that caused you to be afraid and not go back to that feeling or situation because it was fearful, painful, and shameful. Although it's not happening in your current situation, the sound, the smell, the feel, and the thought of it scare and flinch you.

Fear is one of the stumbling blocks to reaching success.  We may or may not be aware of the fears we have, but they're there.  You maybe have tons of fears you don't know, and that's the reason you haven't yet discovered your passion and reached success.  

Probably, sometime in your life, you look around and look at the people your age, and some younger than you are, and see them living their passion and dreams.  However, here you are, just sitting around the corner contemplating and wondering about the future, about how it is to reach your dreams.  

You were enthusiastic about reaching your dreams and compelling ambitions when you were a kid, but now, it seems like they're just up in the air.  There's just like a magnetic force pulling you not to fulfill your dreams.  You might feel like you're left behind and have missed life.  And you're asking, why?  My answer is it's because of fear.

I want you to know that you are not late to start reaching your dreams.  I know it's not a coincidence that you're reading this post now.  You might have been looking for answers to questions and wanting to move your life around, but you can't.  I believe you are at the right place at the right time now reading this.  I know you can still catch up.  You may be stuck where you are now because of fear.  
 
When I was a kid, during my grade school years, I was full of fear.  I don't know where I got it from or inherited it, but it was huge.  It was not a good emotion to keep.  I was afraid of being embarrassed.  That's why I just stayed in the nook not to be noticed.  I was afraid of the crowd, my teachers, classmates, and strangers.  In our class, even if I knew the answer, I was afraid of raising my hand because I was afraid of being heard and criticized.  

I was more afraid of saying something in front of the class.  When it was mandatory for us, students, to do that and I had no choice but to follow, I suddenly felt like I was struck by lightning that I felt weak and feverish.  My knees were shaking and eventually my whole body was.  Really embarrassing, isn't it?  Maybe, you can relate to that or my case was just extreme.   

Anyhow, looking back to those days, a realization hit me.  What if I wasn't fearful early on with my life?  Probably, I could have achieved more and improved myself better at an earliest age.  How about you?  You could be in the same scenario as I am.  

I can't say I have completely conquered fear as we speak.  Gradually, I'm in the process of eliminating bad and developing good things in my life, including fear.  Although I have conquered fear a bit much, it hasn't been a sudden change.  

Life is a process, and it takes time to change.  I believe the same thing goes with you.  You can face and conquer fear, just believe you can. 


One fear most people have

When we talk about fears, there are a lot of them.  We can't cover every one of them in here, not even a single book, but I'll talk you through one most important fear that should be discussed about, the fear of failure.  

Why important?  When you have this fear of failure, you'll get paralyzed, unable to move and act.  You will fail to try and do things that you are most passionate about that will bring you to the next level of life.  

Those things that you missed could have been opportunities in life, health, finances, career, and relationship.  They could have been open doors for you to learn new skills, develop your talents, take you places, and so on.  
 
I know someone who's really negative.  She sees the past, present, and most especially future as negative.  She has fear of failure.  She's afraid of trying new things because she doesn't want to fail.  I would call it playing safe.  She only does things she knows and is familiar because she is safe there and  knows she can't fail.  

She is building her own comfort zone.  I can see she has better talents than anyone, but those talents are of no use since she doesn't want the world to know what she has.  She could be an inspiration to others and could contribute some good legacy to the world by sharing her talents, but they're just hidden in herself.  

Talents not used eventually fade away.

I also know another person afraid of failure and likes to stay in her comfort zone.  She has some opportunity to pursue her education or learn to master her passion, but she doesn't try and do.  She's just saying maybe she can't make it since she's older and it's just a waste of her time when she can find some job (just menial work).  

She has some opportunity to go into business, but she's afraid of investing.  All she says is maybe it will fail and her money won't grow.  All I can hear are hearsay and negative words from her mouth.

Are you afraid of failure?  I can hear you saying no.  But before saying that right away, I want you to seriously check if you have this fear so that we can deal with it and you can experience breakthrough in life, a life that is victorious and fulfilling, which you deserve.   Better awareness will help you see if you need to load and unload some things in your life. 


Are you in your comfort zone?

Now, I want you to check if your progress in life, health, career, finances, relationship, is going very slow, stuck, or going backward.  Are they?  If yes, you're in your comfort zone now.  

Perhaps, it has been a long time that you haven't tried doing new things because you're just there and comfortable with your little world.  That's why your life has no progress.  Staying in your comfort zone feels you good since you are secure and in control of your situation.  But in the long term of being stuck in there, I'm sure you'll feel bored, dissatisfied, discontented, and unfulfilled, and confused.  

What makes you stay in that zone of your life is that you are afraid of failure.

As creative beings, we have this deep desire searching for more, more happiness, more love, more knowledge, more money, more life, better health, and so on.  It's because that's the way we, our lives, are created by God, lives that grow.  

Life itself should be growing.  If you're not growing and changing for the better, it means you're not living.  If your life isn't growing, you aren't actually living the real life.  

Did you get confused with what I said?  I am hearing you asking, is there some kind of real and not real life?  Yes, there is.  Being in a comfort zone is not where God wants us to be.  He wants us to have a life that is abundant, growing, and getting better every time.  And that is true life.  

You need to look for it, find it, and experience it without any fear.  You may experience bumps and failures on the way, but don't be stuck there and build a comfort zone.  Go out of there and explore yourself and the world around you.  There's a better life ahead of you and out there.  Fear not!


The antidote to fear

In 2 Timothy 1:7, it says For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.  This is the truth.  The solution to fear is LOVE.  Fear is not from God.  What God has given us are power, love, and a sound mind.  They are only good and positive things. 

Have you noticed that when you're in love with someone, you will do and give everything to that person without fear and hesitation?  It's because deep pleasure is rising inside of you when you do so.  

Nothing can hinder you when you're in love.  You will not mind the effort, time, and money you invested to that person.  What you mind most is the fulfillment, satisfaction, and pleasure it gives to your heart.  

It is the same thing with reaching your goals and dreams.  When you love what you do, meaning there's passion in it, no one and nothing will stop you from doing and reaching your goal.  Your passion is what drives you to not fear and to take action.  Although it seems impossible for others, but for you, there's no such thing and word as fear.  You'll not feel the fear, the stress, the effort, and the struggle on your way up.

You may say, I can't relate to that since I don't feel love. It's not in the air.  I haven't been in love and never felt being loved in my entire life.  I want you to know that it's not an excuse.  

God created us and gave us the spirit of love.  That spirit of love is within us, in our hearts.  You just need to tap it, so you can experience love flowing in your heart and life.  Love starts from within you, not from the outside.  Work it out from the inside out.  

In the presence of love, there's an absence of fear.  Who knows after practicing this you may find the love of your life.  When love inside of you shows on the outside, you can't help, but receive love in return.


Fill your heart with love

Since the antidote to fears, including fear of failure, is love, I'll explain to you how to fill your heart with love.  You don't need any experience of love from the opposite sex for you to give love and feel loved.  As I told you, you already have love placed by God in your heart.  All you have to do is to let it come out so that it will manifest in your life and you can show it on the outside.  

First is to believe you are loved by God and be thankful for that.  You may do this by closing your eyes or even with eyes wide open, but your highest positive energy operating.  See in your mind all the good memories that happened in your life and great places you've been to.  Only the good ones.  See them as God's expressions of his love for you.  

Feel that good feeling inside your heart and flow through you until it overflows.  Then, you will feel a great relief.  Do it every time until your mind and heart are full of God's love.  With your heart overflowing, it will surely come out and manifest on the outside through your words and actions.  

If practiced often, you'll notice a difference in your thoughts, attitude, words, and actions.   Gradually, fear will subside and be gone.  Instead, power and love will overtake fear.


That's what happened to me.  I received and felt the love of God in my life every minute of every day, and my life drastically changed.  Love overflows and fear isn't in control of me anymore.  I also want you to experience living life without fear of failure.  You can only do this if your heart is full of love, God's love.


It's time to take action

Once you're filled with love, your intuition is improved and your attitude and character is developed.  This time, you'll see opportunities right at your nose that you haven't seen before.  You will see amazing things start happening in your life.  

It's just like you're attracting opportunities now, but actually not.  Opportunities were actually there all along.  It's just you who changed, so your consciousness developed and improved.  You're more aware this time, that's why you are seeing things you haven't seen before.  

When there are open doors of opportunities, you will sense that's it that you wanted all along.  This time, do whatever your intuition is telling you to do without thinking of failure.  You just have to follow what your heart is telling you.  

Remember, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.   Just go with the flow, and reaching your passion and goal isn't out of reach.  It's just right there near you.  

Whatever you do, do it with love, passion, and enthusiasm.  Then, there will be no fear and stress involved since opportunities and blessings you've wanted will be chasing you, not you chasing them.  All you need to do is receive, respond, and act on it effortlessly.


I hope you find this article helpful.  I look forward to talking with you and seeing you soon.

Live a Worry-free Life

Do you know that worrying is a part of people's daily routine?  When I say part, it's almost like we can't live without it.  We worry about the past and get discouraged of what happened with our lives.  We worry about the future, the unseen.  

The moment we wake up in the morning, the thing that comes into our mind is the thing that happened the last day, maybe a failure to do something important.  And we worry mostly about what will happen that day, like what we will eat, drink, and wear or where to get money from to pay our bills.  

Because of the overwhelming needs, circumstances, and problems with our lives, we tend to get so much focused on them, the negatives, that our awareness of the positive becomes too narrow.  We are anxious even with petty matters.  Thus, we fail to see the bigger picture and miss to live the most important time of life, the present.   


How worrying can affect you

Statistics show that most people are having health problems due to worrying.  Chronic worrying will affect you emotionally, mentally, and later on physically. It can lead to high blood pressure, stomach problems, migraine, depression, nervous breakdown, and worst suicide.  You can ask anyone you know suffering from such mental and physical condition, and you will see that they worry a lot. 

So what is really worrying?  Do you notice that when you let your mind run on its own, what it does is just worry?  It's because that's the default of human nature.  

There came a time when I spent a lot of time thinking about solutions to problems.  I thought that I was being efficient with my time trying to come up with answers to problems, but there wasn't anything of valuable solutions coming into my mind.  I thought I was thinking, but I wasn't.  I was actually worrying.  

I had a hard time distinguishing thinking from worrying.  And it was because I wasn't aware of what was entering inside my mind.  I was just receiving all the negative thoughts coming inside my head without filtering them.

Only later did I find out that it affected me a great deal.  I started to feel grumpy.  I wasn't anymore the happy, grateful, and productive person I used to be.  It almost affected my relationship because of intense worrying.  It didn't help my situation to become better in any way.  It even got worse.  It was like I was in bondage to a situation I was not in control of.  

Finally, it hit me that I was off  track.  I knew there was something wrong with me in dealing with my situation, but deep in my heart I knew that it would get better and I would soon be better, too.  

When you are experiencing this same situation now, that you worry a lot, I want you to know that I'm concerned about you.  I know it's a struggle and not easy to live a life full of worries when you can choose to live a stress-free one.  What I'll tell you next is how I discovered ways to stop worrying and start living a worry-free and stress-free life.  I hope this would help you open your mind.  Just read on.


Desire a worry-free life

I believe that when we want something in life that we really desire, the world will conspire to give it to us.

I know people who really want to stop from worrying and are eager to change for the better, but they fail to experience it.  Why?  When they hear something that can lift their spirit up, their faith is triggered and they forget how to worry, but just for a short span of time.  

After a few days or weeks, they would go back to their normal and routine behavior.  After a few years or so, I will hear they're having physical problems, and the diagnosis is stress due to worry and the like.  

When I talk to some of them, I feel something from them.  I notice why they can't experience the worry-free life is because they lack the desire of achieving it.  All I hear from them are complaints, grumbles, and murmurs they have with their spouse, their children, their family, their work, their coworkers, and almost everything in their lives.  

It's like there's nothing good that's going on with them.  When I assess their situation, it seems that their problems aren't that too big if seen on a different perspective.


Learn to forgive and forget

When I only hear complaints from them, I feel there's something going on inside of them.  They haven't let go yet of the pain from the past.  Thus, they don't have trust that their lives will be better down the road.  

It's just like interconnected.  Having an unforgiving heart is very toxic.  You can't be happy stuffing things up.  Let go of the negatives of life.  Learn to forgive yourself first and the people who hurt you.  Shake the dust off and move on.  Learn to forget the pain and let time heal it.  

There's power in forgiveness.   If you do, there will be a big shift in your situation.  You'll become more aware, not of the bad things, but of the great things and the goodness of God.  Then, you'll never know you're already experiencing living the real life.


Live the NOW

If you really want to stop from worrying, all you have to do is to live the now, the present, the moment, which you can only experience when you're free from unforgiveness.  When I say the moment, it's not a few minutes ago or a second ago.  It's just the very moment you are in now.  

Do you see any problem, any lack, and any difficulty now, at this very second?  Your struggles are from the past, the past few seconds, minutes, hours, days, and so on, but not at the moment.  Your needs are for the future, maybe the next few seconds, minutes, hours, days, and so on, but not at the very moment.  

All you sense and see NOW is that there is time that is priceless, air that you breath, clothes that you wear, shelter that you live in (when you're inside your house or a building), food that you eat (when you're eating), water that you drink (when you're drinking), job that you do (when you're working), a family or friend who's with you (when you're with someone), and so on.   

When you live the present, you can't complain but be grateful with what you have.  So there's no stress or worry.  There's only LIFE.   

Remember, the most precious and valuable things in life are free, just like I said above.  Just be open and receive them.

I'm not saying to forget your obligations or not to plan for the future.  Yes, you should do your obligations and plan for the future, but with no worries and no resistance, just with enthusiasm, a grateful heart, and a positive attitude.  

What you can do best is shut the door off of your past and do whatever you do in the present as best as you can since your present will determine your future.  If you worry now, you will definitely worry in the future and be bitter, desperate, and stressed.  If you decide to be happy and do excellently now, you will definitely reap a good life in the future.  

Surely, you will get and see positive results sometime later.  

Life is a journey, not a destination.  If you aim to have a good and happy life, stop from worrying and grumbling right now.  You're the creator of your life and no one else.  Build it as best as you can in the present and trust God for the rest.  

Life is really a blessing.  It's so much beautiful when all you see is the goodness of God and the abundance of His grace.