Sunday, June 17, 2007
How to Know Your Purpose in Life
Are you wandering through life with little direction, hoping that you'll find happiness, health and prosperity? Do you just function from day to day without knowing what it is that could make your life better? If so this lesson will help you to discover what you should be doing.
Let us start with the basic premise that you desire a better life, for you and those around you. You do want a better life don’t you? So what is it that will make your life better starting right now?
The first thing you will do today is sit down with paper and pen, and think. Grab a spiral notebook or even a loose leaf notebook with lots of paper and hold it on your lap. Start to let your mind wander. You will daydream your desires. Imagine what your life will be when it is good. Think about what could happen that will make you happy. Feel free to day dream about any thing you want. Do not watch TV; do not have any distractions like cell phones, pagers, radios, or annoying relatives. Go sit in your favorite chair, or park bench and let your mind wander.
As you imagine what your life should be like, find a few details. When you feel a happy moment; identify what caused it. When you see in your mind you being happy; quickly look at why you are happy.
Now the tricky part: Write it down! When you saw yourself feeling joy where you dancing in a field of flowers or were you in a nice cozy office chair with a big window in your office? Write it down! When you imagined yourself doing the job you love; write it down! Whatever you imagined, whatever you day dreamed, whatever you thought of that made you feel good: Write it down.
Once you get started you will find this little self discovery journey to be exhilarating and fun. You will write as fast as you can, soon you will find that you have written a lot of pages, and want to write more. So do it; write as much as you can, it doesn’t have to be pretty or organized just written. Nobody but you will see this work so feel free to do it your way.
Eventually you will either get hungry or run out of daylight or some other reason, and you will have to quit. Congratulate yourself for a job well done, thank the controller of the universe (insert your name for god here) for the great adventure you just had and for the blessing of the many pages you have just written. Save your work in a safe place, you do not want your valuable work to be lost or taken; so put it where nobody will accidently finds your notebook. If there are a lot of people in your house I suggest a dresser drawer.
Now the next step is easy, yes it involves a bit more writing but you can do it easily now, so just follow along. Make a list of your top five values: What do you value most? Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning, and so on. Ask anyone you want for ideas and suggestions, make a huge list if you can, but you need at least five. When you are done, again keep your work in a safe place. The number shouldn't discourage you; instead it should motivate you to do more than you can ever dream of.
Now plan a special afternoon just for you. Send the spouse with the kids to an amusement park, or tell your significant other to go put in some overtime, or have the mother in law take the kids for a day, and so on. Make arrangements for you to be by yourself for a few hours. Set yourself up with a full pot of coffee, or a whole jug of tea, maybe some cookies or light snacks. Clear off your kitchen table, or set up a card table on the porch; make a work place for yourself.
Now get your note book and open it up to your values page, review your values, add delete or arrange as you see fit. Once you have done this, go to your day dreams pages. Go to the first entry and at the top of the page label it “1”. Then go to the first dream and label it “1”. Now summarize it, and on a new page write “1:1” and the summery along with the feeling it gave you. Compare this to your values, does it fit?
Let us say that your 1:1 was “dancing in field of flowers” and you were happy. Comparing it to your values; does it represent security, freedom, or what? If it fits a value write that down. If it does not fit a value then you have to make a choice, add a value, or write down “no value” next to it. Do this and work through your whole book; if the concept is on page one label them: 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and so on. On page two your ideas will be 2:1, 2:2, 2:3, you get the idea. If a concept took up more than one page then just label it where you can find the beginning. This way you can find them as you review your work.
Take a break, refill your coffee cup, and move on to the next step. Review your summery pages and find which ones you like the best, put them in order. For example driving a Porsche made you the happiest so make that your first entry, followed by your summery label. (3:1, etc) Go through all your summaries until you have put them all in order. If they fit your values add them to this page, if they did not fit a value then leave them off. Look at them again, and take a break.
Take a clean sheet of paper and summarize your summaries. The first time you write this just write the words in the order you put your summaries in. For example: Dancing in field of flowers, flying plane, driving Porsche, eating lobster, big office, and so on. Write them as a paragraph, do not worry about context or flow; just write them all down. Now close your book, and with a new sheet of paper ready, look at your paragraph. Let your mind think freely, allow yourself to admire your work, and see in writing what you life should be. This may seem tricky at first; especially when you see yourself to be in a tight spot or even dead end; but there's always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make a big difference to yourself. Keep in mind you are working on your future, not trying to fix the past.
Now start again one more time with a new piece of paper, and rewrite your paragraph, but put yourself in there. For example: “I can dance in a field of flowers on land that I own whenever I desire.” Now add them all together roughly in the order you have them in the first paragraph like this: “I drive my blue Porsche from my plane to the field of flowers so that I may dance in them.”
You may have to write this one a couple of times until it makes sense to you. Once you have an intelligent sounding paragraph, read it out loud so it sounds good to you. When you have this all written out and sounding good: Frame it!
Put the frame of your life purpose where you can see it, and you will have your own unique life compass that will lead you to your truth every time. Every time you see it, stop and read it, reminding you daily what your life purpose is.
Be Blessed
The Guide to Setting Goals
Let us start with the basic premise that you desire a better life, for you and those around you. You do want a better life don’t you? So what is it that will make your life better starting right now?
The first thing you will do today is sit down with paper and pen, and think. Grab a spiral notebook or even a loose leaf notebook with lots of paper and hold it on your lap. Start to let your mind wander. You will daydream your desires. Imagine what your life will be when it is good. Think about what could happen that will make you happy. Feel free to day dream about any thing you want. Do not watch TV; do not have any distractions like cell phones, pagers, radios, or annoying relatives. Go sit in your favorite chair, or park bench and let your mind wander.
As you imagine what your life should be like, find a few details. When you feel a happy moment; identify what caused it. When you see in your mind you being happy; quickly look at why you are happy.
Now the tricky part: Write it down! When you saw yourself feeling joy where you dancing in a field of flowers or were you in a nice cozy office chair with a big window in your office? Write it down! When you imagined yourself doing the job you love; write it down! Whatever you imagined, whatever you day dreamed, whatever you thought of that made you feel good: Write it down.
Once you get started you will find this little self discovery journey to be exhilarating and fun. You will write as fast as you can, soon you will find that you have written a lot of pages, and want to write more. So do it; write as much as you can, it doesn’t have to be pretty or organized just written. Nobody but you will see this work so feel free to do it your way.
Eventually you will either get hungry or run out of daylight or some other reason, and you will have to quit. Congratulate yourself for a job well done, thank the controller of the universe (insert your name for god here) for the great adventure you just had and for the blessing of the many pages you have just written. Save your work in a safe place, you do not want your valuable work to be lost or taken; so put it where nobody will accidently finds your notebook. If there are a lot of people in your house I suggest a dresser drawer.
Now the next step is easy, yes it involves a bit more writing but you can do it easily now, so just follow along. Make a list of your top five values: What do you value most? Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning, and so on. Ask anyone you want for ideas and suggestions, make a huge list if you can, but you need at least five. When you are done, again keep your work in a safe place. The number shouldn't discourage you; instead it should motivate you to do more than you can ever dream of.
Now plan a special afternoon just for you. Send the spouse with the kids to an amusement park, or tell your significant other to go put in some overtime, or have the mother in law take the kids for a day, and so on. Make arrangements for you to be by yourself for a few hours. Set yourself up with a full pot of coffee, or a whole jug of tea, maybe some cookies or light snacks. Clear off your kitchen table, or set up a card table on the porch; make a work place for yourself.
Now get your note book and open it up to your values page, review your values, add delete or arrange as you see fit. Once you have done this, go to your day dreams pages. Go to the first entry and at the top of the page label it “1”. Then go to the first dream and label it “1”. Now summarize it, and on a new page write “1:1” and the summery along with the feeling it gave you. Compare this to your values, does it fit?
Let us say that your 1:1 was “dancing in field of flowers” and you were happy. Comparing it to your values; does it represent security, freedom, or what? If it fits a value write that down. If it does not fit a value then you have to make a choice, add a value, or write down “no value” next to it. Do this and work through your whole book; if the concept is on page one label them: 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and so on. On page two your ideas will be 2:1, 2:2, 2:3, you get the idea. If a concept took up more than one page then just label it where you can find the beginning. This way you can find them as you review your work.
Take a break, refill your coffee cup, and move on to the next step. Review your summery pages and find which ones you like the best, put them in order. For example driving a Porsche made you the happiest so make that your first entry, followed by your summery label. (3:1, etc) Go through all your summaries until you have put them all in order. If they fit your values add them to this page, if they did not fit a value then leave them off. Look at them again, and take a break.
Take a clean sheet of paper and summarize your summaries. The first time you write this just write the words in the order you put your summaries in. For example: Dancing in field of flowers, flying plane, driving Porsche, eating lobster, big office, and so on. Write them as a paragraph, do not worry about context or flow; just write them all down. Now close your book, and with a new sheet of paper ready, look at your paragraph. Let your mind think freely, allow yourself to admire your work, and see in writing what you life should be. This may seem tricky at first; especially when you see yourself to be in a tight spot or even dead end; but there's always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make a big difference to yourself. Keep in mind you are working on your future, not trying to fix the past.
Now start again one more time with a new piece of paper, and rewrite your paragraph, but put yourself in there. For example: “I can dance in a field of flowers on land that I own whenever I desire.” Now add them all together roughly in the order you have them in the first paragraph like this: “I drive my blue Porsche from my plane to the field of flowers so that I may dance in them.”
You may have to write this one a couple of times until it makes sense to you. Once you have an intelligent sounding paragraph, read it out loud so it sounds good to you. When you have this all written out and sounding good: Frame it!
Put the frame of your life purpose where you can see it, and you will have your own unique life compass that will lead you to your truth every time. Every time you see it, stop and read it, reminding you daily what your life purpose is.
Be Blessed
The Guide to Setting Goals
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