Your Life Purpose (and how to "get" it)

More from The 90-Day Challenge.

In a conversation with one of my Mentor-Coaching people, she asked me about Life Purpose and how could she go about "finding" hers? My answer is below along with a video I made on the subject I trust will be helpful & valuable.

Now, here's the work to be done and the steps to take to create your written Life Purpose:

1. Make a list of all your likes and loves in life & work: People, places, things that you have (or could have, want to have) and do and ways that you be or want to be that please & excite you.

2.  For each one ask: "What does that provide for me?" OR "Having that (doing that... being that) gives me _________ (and fill in the blank).

3.  Do this until you cannot think of any more.

4.  The answers to Q#2 above are your VALUES.

5. Now go back over your list of Values. Find one that is a "10", which means "Cannot be any better" or you canNOT live without it. Write down the "10" rating beside that Value.

6. Now, review the entire list using that first "10" as a standard by which you rate/score all the others.

If a Value is equal to that first "10," then it's a "10," too. If it's RRReally important, but NOT quite a "10" rate it a "9" or an "8." Rate your entire list "against" that "10" standard.

7. Take your Top 10 Values and list them separately on a sheet of paper/computer program.

8.  What you do next is to "create" a paragraph that uses as many of your Top 10 Values as possible. It MUST include all the "10s" and "9s". If you want... and it's appropriate, you can includes "8s" as well.

That paragraph is a "First Draft" of your Life Purpose statement. Do NOT expect it to be perfect. It's a place to start. Keep working with it until you can say, "I'm complete with this for now."

An example:

"My Life Purpose is to learn the best ways to live & work with my power, peace & joy and to teach what I learn to positively contribute and influence the lives of millions of people for the highest good of myself and all concerned."

Live with it. Listen to it. Speak it. Share it. Wear it. Play with it. Edit it. Work on it. AND when it's a FIT... it's your Life Purpose Statement— for now.

How's that?

Please, let me know...

Thanks.
I appreciate you!

     

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