What’s My Life Purpose?
This is one of the most soul opening questions you can ask yourself. Why Am I Here? What is my Life Purpose? Am I here for a Higher Purpose?
Like a North Star, there is an intelligence that guides and calls to you; it dwells within you and is constantly magnetizing you towards it. Your North Star has the clarity and foresight to encourage you, and it may well issue such thoughts as “You deserve more. Don’t compromise. Break the rules and follow your heart’s deepest desires!” I ask you sincerely, can you bear to adhere to such potentially life-upheaving words? Or maybe a better question is, can you bear not to?
Tell me, whose permission do you think you need to begin leading your most authentic, courageous and purpose filled life? And by the way, your mate, family, peers and friends will probably not encourage you to follow your Life Purpose, because they may feel much safer to leave things as they are—the status quo. In fact, they are probably also digging their heels in against the pull of their own Brilliance or Life Purpose.
I would venture to say that millions of people feel this way. I know I have felt this way. You hear this “voice” or feel this unrest, this hunger for more, and yet you stay in your dying or complacent relationships, jobs, roles and adopted identities. Why? Because it is safer . . . or so you think.
In part, people stay because the outer appearance of their union seems to indicate that matters are okay or even great. Yet, they feel numb or uninspired. We also stay because of the huge influence over us of religious, moral, cultural, social and familial expectations. We want to be accepted and approved. Unfortunately the approval comes at a high price—our joy and the surrender of the best life we were “coded” to live.
Individually and collectively we are so afraid to slip outside of conditioned roles and expectations and follow the call of our own Life Purpose; we stay in mediocrity or worse. I wonder if, in fact, the huge and growing health problems we face, the enormous use of drugs and alcohol, and the over-eating are not symptomatic of a humanity that is becoming paralyzed by the desire to remain within the perceived norms and expectations, which were supposed to make us happy but ultimately cannot.
It takes incredible courage to look honestly at our romantic relationships and ask ourselves why we are really in them. Are we there for love or for security? For some, the reason is simple, honest and pure: you are in your union because there is no one with whom you would rather be; you are deeply in love, and it is the love that keeps you growing. Your relationship offers you many ways to become increasingly self aware and personally responsible.
To evaluate your career and see if it is truly allowing you to bring forth your greatest assets as a human can be quite unnerving, but that evaluation and exploration is mandatory if you hope to be truly happy and purposeful in your life.
Regardless of this part of your life that needs a change, a complete turnaround or even an ending, you will not be able to lead your best Purpose Filled Life until you have the courage to stop living the life that you think you should want but clearly don’t.
So, what does it take to gain the courage and strength to claim your best life led with Purpose? It takes incredible guts, faith and trust. It takes saying “yes” to your own Soul’s nudging and your heart’s pull towards the unknown. And might I add, it is helpful to be aware and even understand that you will upset the people closest to you when you draw nearer and nearer to the magnetizing pull of your still somewhat unfamiliar Purpose in Life! |