How to Get in Touch With Your Life Purpose?

What many people do not realize is that figuring out your life purpose can have a tremendous impact on your overall happiness and fulfillment. 

Why, you may ask? The answer is rooted in the fact that life purpose is closely aligned with life passions. When these are in sync, it can help us develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world, which allows for the achievement  of overall holistic balance.


Passion Versus Purpose 

Passion is something we look forward to doing.  It is an intense emotional drive that comes from a particular activity, cause, or field which sparks excitement. It generally brings happiness and inner peace. 

Purpose is the driving force behind your actions and is often tied to making a meaningful contribution to the world. It is a broader concept that goes beyond personal enjoyment or fulfillment and it is your deeper reason for existence. 

These two elements are interrelated in that passion can fuel your purpose, and your purpose gives meaning to your passions. A purpose can give vision and direction to a passion, and keep it going during difficult times.


The Value of Knowing Your Passions & Purpose

Knowing your passions and purpose can really shift the trajectory of your life in the most positive of directions. Not only can it help you develop strengths, values and goals, but having this awareness can sustain your momentum to keep moving forward towards your goals in a way that aligns with who you are at the core. Knowing your passion and purpose can also ignite your inspiration toward creating meaningful changes to the various dimensions of your life. 


Gaining Self Awareness To Know Your Purpose

It can be quite disheartening if there is a revelation later in life that your career or vocation or current situation does not align with your passions and your purpose.  It usually feels very overwhelming and challenging and it is common for individuals to become aware of this disconnect with maturity. Sometimes reaching a certain age or a major life event can spark the need to become clear about one's life purpose.

The key is that it is never too late to get in touch with what fulfills you and gives you a sense of peace about what will give meaning to your time here on earth. 


Ways To Figure Out Your Life Purpose

Here are a few simple exercises intended to help you gain self-awareness, uncover hidden desires, and identify the values and passions that drive you. These action steps may also enable you to better understand these values on a deeper level, thereby fostering the discovery of your life purpose.

Step 1: Life Value Assessment 

Values are the guiding principles that shape our behavior, decisions, and overall sense of fulfillment. Clarifying personal values is the foundation for aligning your actions and choices with what truly matters to you.

Step 2: Identify Passions

Since passion is a driving force that fuels motivation, enthusiasm and brings you a deep sense of joy and fulfillment, uncovering your true passions and interests allows you to become consciously aware of what truly motivates you in life.  

Step 3: Strengths Inventory

Your unique strengths and talents are the qualities and abilities that come naturally to you and contribute to your success and well-being. By identifying, recognizing and acknowledging these, you can leverage them to pursue a purposeful life.

Step 4: Set Personal Intention(s) Daily  

Setting daily intensions are about “who you want to be” and a way to stay in the mindset of your purpose and passions. Intensions are different than goals because intentions focus on the PRESENT. They are within your power - daily expressions of your personal values and how you want to live in the world regardless of external circumstances.

Setting intentions daily is about defining the qualities you want to embody for the day. Intentions are meant to guide your actions and reactions minute by minute  and they help you measure your success by how you live, act and respond in the world. 

Step 5: Vision Board 

A vision board taps into your creativity and "paints" a visual picture or representation of your life purpose. Creating a collage of pictures, words and phrases that resonate with your passions desires and experiences provides something tangible to look at. This helps to make it a reality in your mind and therefore, manifest it.  

Till next time,
Elisa