2016-05-26

Do you have any good suggestions on how I will find the purpose of my life, and how do I come up with what is mine and my goals with my life?

Hello Mr. Life Coaching

I'm sitting with a dilemma that I do not know what I want and what I think about my life.

My life feels pointless and I can not find really my goal, and the goal of my life.

Do you have any good suggestions on how I will find the purpose of my life?
How do I come up with what is mine and my goals with my life?

Hoping for an answer, and thanks in advance for your help!

Brad


Hi Brad

Most of us have no clue what we want to do with our lives. Even after we finish school. Even after we get a job. Even after we’re making money. Between ages 18 and 25, I changed career aspirations more often than I changed my underwear. And even after I had a business, it wasn’t until I was 28 that I clearly defined what I wanted for my life.

Chances are you’re more like me and have no clue what you want to do. It’s a struggle almost every adult goes through. “What do I want to do with my life?” “What am I passionate about?” “What do I not suck at?” I often receive emails from people in their 40s and 50s who still have no clue what they want to do with themselves.

Part of the problem is the concept of “life purpose” itself. The idea that we were each born for some higher purpose and it’s now our cosmic mission to find it. This is the same kind of shitty logic used to justify things like spirit crystals or that your lucky number is 34 (but only on Tuesdays or during full moons).

Here’s the truth. We exist on this earth for some undetermined period of time. During that time we do things. Some of these things are important. Some of them are unimportant. And those important things give our lives meaning and happiness. The unimportant ones basically just kill time.

So when people say, “What should I do with my life?” or “What is my life purpose?” what they’re actually asking is: “What can I do with my time that is important?”

Adam Leipzig has figured out that it takes five questions in under five minutes to discover what you are meant to do with your life.

Film producer and, now motivational speaker Adam Leipzig attended his 25th Yale college reunion. After speaking with old friends, he came to an astonishing conclusion – more than 80% of them were unhappy with their lives. 

The majority of his former classmates were financially stable, highly educated and with life partners - yet they were dissatisfied. Leipzig then questioned the 20% who were leading happy and fulfilling lives and found that most of them had studied what interested them in college, not what they felt would propel them to the “right” career. He also discovered that they knew something about their very own life purpose.

This sweet and well-meaning TED Talk of the Week deduces how to find your life purpose by asking five simple questions:
  1. Who are you?
  2. What do you love to do?
  3. Who do you do it for?
  4. What do those people want or need?
  5. How do they change as a result of what you give them? 
Start watch on to figure out the meaning behind these five questions and how finding your life purpose might be a lot easier than you think.

After that you can also take this quiz on: How to Find Passion in Your Life

Hope this was helpful to you, and good luck with finding out what the point is with precisely your unique life. 

Plus, it's important to remember: - The meaning of your life is not exactly the same meaningfulness as they are with my life.

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