On our journey towards happiness, most of us will come to a point in life where we start wondering what our purpose is. It can be considered an integral part of happiness, but purpose can be almost as fuzzy and elusive as happiness.
No one starts knowing what their purpose is. Even in traditions of beliefs where everyone has a purpose, practically, your purpose is unknown. It requires you to search, find understanding, and discovery of what that purpose is.
Like everyone else, you’ve probably started your process to finding your purpose by lying in bed, thinking about your place in the world. That consideration is a good start and can be a catalyst to discovering what your purpose is. However, where you’ll likely discover your purpose is by doing something. You won’t find your purpose just by thinking about it, you have to get up and start doing things as well.
This means you have to go out into the world and start participating. You have to decide you’re going to do something with yourself. That could mean deciding to study something that interests you or could put you on a path to a future goal or career path. It could mean volunteering to help your community in some way. It could mean travelling to see the world. It could mean picking up pen and paper and drawing or writing and discovering your talent. It could mean getting up and exercising and find out you like to exercise or you like the outcome and how it makes you feel.
Once you start doing something, you’ll start gaining some level of proficiency and understanding of it, and that will help you to understand what you are or aren’t good at and will help to determine what it is you like or don’t like.
It’s possible you may like doing something, like drawing, but aren’t very good at it. It could also be possible you are good at drawing, but don’t like doing it. The only way to know is to try it out for yourself. What you’re doing is actively discovering things about yourself, and in the process will find your purpose and meaning.
Sometimes fear, prejudice, and apathy can effectively stop you from doing things. Getting past these road blocks can be difficult but finding your purpose may involve doing something even when you are averse to doing it. Especially as you get older, you can become averse to trying new things, or averse to changing your mind despite new information that should radically change your mind. Getting past this is a decision and action to do something rather than nothing, or hanging on to status quo. It is that action that will eventually lead you to discovering your purpose in life.
If you’re one of the those who have a firm understanding of your purpose, this applies as well. Your purpose can change as our lives change. What we may have discovered about ourselves in our youth may not be what we know now, or in the future. This could drastically change your purpose, and sense of place in the world. People often end up changing out of their career because they feel it is no longer fulfilling, or they find new meaning in activities they start later in life. the status quo that you build for yourself can sometimes hide what it is you need to reach for.
Change happens as a natural part of life, and often, it requires a new way of thinking and adapting to these changes. Part of that may be finding new or even renewed purpose for yourself. When you do find your purpose, you’ll find your meaning and be a lot closer to finding happiness in your life.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
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