5 ways to find your purpose in life

5 Ways to Find Your Purpose in Life

Have you ever sat down and wondered why you were put on this earth? Have your ever thought about what your purpose in life is? Why exactly are you here and what should you be doing, or not doing, to serve your purpose? These types of questions are common to ask of yourself as you spend time trying to navigate through this great big world. It’s not necessarily that you want to know the exact plan, but some general direction would be nice every once and a while; maybe a sign just letting you know that you’re headed in the right direction. So here are 5 ways to find your purpose in life !

1.Discover your passion

In order to do your best in any area, you have to be passionate about it. Therefore, you wouldn’t have a purpose that didn’t go hand in hand with something that you feel very zealous about. Just take as an example all of the people who were passionate in one subject or another and that drove them to create some life altering invention or uncover some piece of information that changes the world. But, the key to their success is that they felt the desire so deep in their soul that they weren’t going to stop until they achieved the purpose they felt within them.

How do you uncover your passion? Think about what excites you. If you had all the money you needed to survive and retire on, what would you do with your time? Answer that question and you’ll find where your true purpose most certainly lies.

2.Pinpoint your primary talent.

Some people say that they’re good at everything–this isn’t true at all. You can only be absolutely excellent at one thing and just average at the others. You can find out your talent if you know which of your abilities can make you stand out like an ultimate celebrity. What are you wonderful at? What is the skill that compels people to come up to you and say, “Good job!” or “Wow, you really have a skill for that”?

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3. Think about how you serve people around you

Remember, the volunteer work that you should be doing must be connected with your passion. Just do the work without any expectation of being compensated or being given the credit. Your life purpose should have a massive impact to your community–it should be something that you love doing and something that people love seeing you do. Purpose, after all, is best when shared with others.

4. Passion, service and talent should be all interrelated to form your life purpose. Connect the dots.

Once you’ve discovered that One Thing that you love doing (your passion), that thing that you can use to serve others and that thing that you’re very great at (your talent), you might be surprised to know that all of these are connected! So all you have to do is connect the dots !

Take Nick Vujicic for example.

Nick loves communicating and expressing his religious views to everyone.

Nick serves people by inspiring them and motivating them to be the best that they can be.

Nick is absolutely wonderful at communications and public speaking.

5. Keep moving forward

Even if you’ve tried all of these things and still have no idea why you’re on this earth, don’t let it discourage you. You may realize it someday when the time is right, or you may serve a purpose that you didn’t even realize you served. Maybe you committed one random act of kindness that changed someone else’s life and caused them to do great things. Who knows? But, even if you don’t, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t continue to move forward and do the best that you can in life. Treat others with kindness, give 100% in all you do and never compromise your integrity or character. Do these things and you can’t go wrong.