Hi everyone! Aileen here. Today’s vlog will be an exercise on how to find your purpose in life.
I believe that everybody has a purpose. Each person is blessed with a unique set of talents, skills, personality, and life experience for a reason, and they’re meant to use that to contribute to the world in their own unique way. Your purpose is essentially your life’s mission.
Finding your purpose is not about finding your career, although that could be a big part of it. One purpose can spawn multiple careers, meaning there isn’t one thing that you’re supposed to do. There are various ways that you can fulfill your purpose, for example: through hobbies or your relationships.
Your purpose is bigger than your career. Your purpose is the backbone of your entire life and what you live and stand for. Your purpose is why you exist on this world.
Once you discover your own personal ‘Why’, your life will become more meaningful and fulfilled because you understand your reason for being and the reason behind everything that you do. Now finding your purpose is a personal journey. You may not discover it immediately and it could take a lot of time, so I want to say: be patient and be open-minded throughout this process.
Today I’ve compiled a set of questions that may help you start your journey in finding your purpose. I highly encourage you to click the link in the description to my blog post; I have the full set of questions there so you can copy and paste it onto a Word document and answer the questions at your own pace. Also I’ve included a bunch of sub-questions that are very similar so feel free to answer just the ones that speak to you.
1. What brings you joy? What are the things that you love to do and what activities that make you happy?
What’s something you found yourself doing for hours on end and not get tired from? These are your passions. Your passions are things that you are drawn to naturally and that you have an innate love for.
Your passions are your compass, and you should pay attention to them because they lead you to where you are meant to go. 2. What makes you unique?
What are the things that you are naturally good at? What are some things that your friends and family tell you that you are good at? What do most people admire about you?
Realizing your natural talents and strengths is essential to finding your purpose. These are your tools. You’re given this set of talents and strengths for a reason.
You need to use them to contribute to the world, help others, and do your thing. 3. What does your perfect life look like?
What would you do with your life if you knew you could not fail? What would you do if money did not matter? With these questions, don’t limit yourself.
Dare to give your boldest, biggest, and most honest answers because you need to acknowledge what you truly want. Do not compromise and don’t settle. This is your vision.
Your vision shows you who you want to be. 4. How can you give back to the world?
Who do you want to help? How do you want to help them? Is there a legacy that you want to leave behind?
True happiness and fulfillment comes from giving back and helping others. Your purpose includes making a meaningful contribution to the world. This is your impact.
So now that you’ve answered the four big questions and sub-questions, it’s time to look for patterns and see if there’s a common thread between all of your answers. See if there’s something that connects your passions, your talents, skills, strengths, with your vision of your life and the impact that you want to make. Whatever connects to all those things is close to what your purpose is.
Finally it’s time to write your purpose statement. Take the time for yourself, sit down, get a piece of paper or open up a Word document, and at the top, write: “What is my true purpose in life? ” Then just let it flow out of you, keep writing versions of your purpose statement.
Try to come up with a set of words that you deeply feel connected to. The words don’t need to be pretty or poetic. What’s important is that the words are inspiring to you, because this is your life, this is your purpose, and it should be something that you want to uphold and live by every single day, and it should be the reason, the ‘Why’, behind everything that you do.
And your purpose statement isn’t written in stone. Feel free to re-edit it and redefine your purpose in the future as you feel is needed. I really hope this helped you guys with finding your purpose and being more clear with the ‘Why’ behind everything that you do.
Again, I highly encourage you to open up that blog post and go through each question, and have some time to yourself to talk to yourself and be honest with who you are what you really want out of life. Please feel free to share this video or the blog post with anyone you think needs it. If you’re brave enough, I’d love to hear your purpose statement that you came up with.
I’d love to hear your feedback on this exercise. This is my first exercise that I’ve created, so let me know if you’d like to see more of this. Anyway, I want to wish you good luck with finding your purpose and your path in becoming the best you you can be so we can all be awesome people in this world and lift each other up.
Thank you so much, guys. Bye!
