Is This Really Your Life Purpose?
By Douglas
Woods
Do you know what your life purpose is? It seems most of us do not
and that worries some of us. Yet there are some people who feel that
they have found their life purpose.
Do you know, though, 80 percent of the people who have shared
with me their life purpose, have all said the same thing. They have
each identified the same ‘purpose’ for their life. Why is this?
It makes you wonder whether we could all share the same life
purpose. Is life purpose the same for all of us or almost all of us?
Or could it be that these people are simply mistaken and have not
yet really realized their true purpose?
Do you know that, of all the people who have told me their life
purpose, not one person said their life purpose was:
• To make money;
• To work hard for their company;
• To spend time in the office;
• To be more organized;
• To watch television;
• To buy the latest car, computer, fashions, gadgets or whatever.
Yet, these are often the things you may find yourself spending
your time on.
True. This may simply be a reflection of the type of people I
spend my time with. Perhaps these people are not motivated by money,
hard work, television, gadgets, etc.. Yet these people seemed to
come from different backgrounds or ‘walks of life’ and still seemed
to identify the same purpose for their life.
So we are still faced with the same dilemma. Could we all have
the same life purpose or had these people not identified their life
purpose accurately?
Up to this point, I have not revealed what it was that these
people each said was their life purpose. Before I do, perhaps we
should consider the need for accuracy. Is it really necessary to be
accurate in defining your life purpose? Just how precise do you need
to be? Obviously you need to have a purpose that is relevant to your
life rather than one that is relevant to someone else’s life. Yet,
apart from making sure it is relevant to you, how precise do you
have to be?
I’m sure that some of you will say that if your life purpose is
‘flexible’ then it will allow you to fit your purpose into different
stages of your life and into different circumstances. After all, our
lives and our circumstances do not always remain the same, so to be
able to adapt our life purpose to fit changing circumstances would
be advantageous.
If, however, our life purpose is so flexible, is it really our
‘purpose’? Should our true purpose not be more constant throughout
our life and should we not bring changes into our life that fit our
‘purpose’? Or would doing this make our lives to ‘rigid’?
So what is it that most people have said to be their life
purpose? At this point, I can reveal that most people have revealed
to me that their life purpose is; …
… ‘To help other people.’
I reveal this at the end of this article as I guess many of you
may feel that this is your life purpose too. If so, then I repeat to
you the question in the title, is this really your life purpose? Or
do you need to define it further?
Douglas Woods is a qualified life coach and trainer. You can read
about his work on finding life purpose on his website at
http://www.dougwoods.com/life-purpose-coaching.html
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