How to Find Your Purpose in Life

If you don’t know what you want in life, you’re probably confused. If you know what you want, but don’t go after it, you’re probably frustrated. But if you know what you want and are going after it with everything you have, even though you haven’t gotten where you want to be, you probably feel fulfilled just because you’re on the journey.

One way to discover your purpose is to imagine that you have $3 billion dollars in the bank and you owe no money to anyone and have no responsibility to anyone. If that were your situation, what would you want to accomplish in life?

If you don’t know what you really want in life, the most important question you can ask yourself is, “What really excites me so much that I can see myself getting out of bed every morning and doing that thing?” If what you’re doing now doesn’t make you feel like that, it’s time to find that thing that God created you to be and do.

You’ll find your purpose when you have a clear vision of what you want to do; you’ve figured out how your gifts and talents will help you do what you want to do; know what motivates you, what your values are, what’s important to you, and that your motive for doing your thing is good.

You must obey four universal laws: the Laws of Awareness, Action, Accountability and Attraction. In order to do what you want, you must be aware that you can do it; you must take specific and decisive action; you must be accountable to some human being who can be honest with you and challenge you to stay on course. Finally, your thoughts, speech and action must be aligned with what you want to do so that what you need to do it is attracted to you.

Once you’ve taken these steps, you must practice being committed, consistent, creative, purposeful, reflective and grateful.

Every highly successful person has at least one coach or mentor in their life. A reputable and highly-trained mentor or coach will require that you have a teachable spirit. If you’re hard-headed and already think you know everything, neither I nor any coach or mentor I know would waste time working with you. Then you must be prepared at each session; you must ask questions, show that you’re learning, and be accountable.

Mentoring and coaching are quite different fields. In the mentoring relationship, you become accountable to someone who is doing or has done what you want to do, and the relationship is cyclical in nature. In the coaching relationship, you are the captain. The role of the coach is to raise your awareness, based on the truth that every answer to every question you have is within yourself. The coach helps you become aware of faculties and abilities within yourself that you didn’t believe were there and to help you do things you didn’t believe you could do. Take the second step now! Contact me and discover how I can help you grow as your coach.