| How many times have you asked yourself I wish | | | | information is always there somewhere. You need |
| I knew what to do? Sometimes trying to find our | | | | to remember the times when you felt that great |
| true place in life can seem impossible! When we | | | | excitement about something you were doing, |
| have to face the reality of already existing work | | | | something you felt you wanted to do all the time. |
| commitments and other responsibilities and they | | | | Was it something that was fun to do, something |
| are not in line with our true purpose in life, it can | | | | that grabbed you and gave you those butterflies |
| be a struggle to keep motivated. We try this and | | | | in the stomach? It may not have been in your |
| that, different ventures or hobbies and nothing | | | | childhood. It could have been much later. Did it feel |
| seems to bring any lasting satisfaction or success. | | | | like "yes, I really love this" or "this feels so good?" |
| If we could just find 'real' purpose in life we might | | | | Whatever it was and whenever it was that you |
| be a lot happier and more satisfied. | | | | had these feelings, you were very likely close to |
| Indeed, what could be better than awaking every | | | | expressing the essence of your 'purpose' in life. |
| day and knowing exactly what you had to do | | | | Those moments of 'joyful excitement' are great |
| without question? Imagine being so sure of what | | | | indicators, like the needle of a compass, indicating |
| you need to do and not because someone is | | | | a direction for us to follow and a potential source |
| telling you to do it, or because it is part of your | | | | of true and lasting contentment. But, without this |
| job, but knowing this is what you must do | | | | excitement and this passion, you can get led in |
| because it comes from a place of complete | | | | the wrong direction and down dead ends. That's |
| certainty deep inside you? This is possible, believe | | | | why it is so hard to sustain motivation for |
| it or not, even if you have no way of seeing how | | | | targets, goals and jobs that we don't have our |
| that way of life could come about any time soon! | | | | heart in. They're just wrong for us. |
| The secret to achieving certainty like this is finding | | | | Trying to think of a purpose in life for the sake |
| a strong purpose in life. | | | | of it will not work. It has to come from inside us, |
| Clues to our purpose often lie in what you | | | | from our intuition and we have to feel it in our |
| enjoyed when you were younger and more | | | | stomachs! It comes back to having that excited |
| carefree. Think back to what you wanted to be | | | | feeling. You could say that someone who is |
| when you were younger, there are always signs | | | | constantly flitting from one unsatisfying career or |
| there. Did you like animals or looking after people | | | | scheme to the next isn't really listening to |
| or children? Did you enjoy sports, messing about | | | | themselves... yet. |
| with building blocks or playing Doctor? The | | | | |