05
Aug
Back to a purpose in life
About seven months ago, I thought that I’d sit down for a quiet 60 minutes and try the Steve Pavlina method of determining my life’s purpose. The before I could get up the gumption to give it a go, life kinda got in the way and completely derailed my plans.
So now that things seem to be a little back on track (or I’m just getting used to the new way my life seems to be going), I thought I’d sit down and give this another go. I went to my local coffee shop as I can’t seem to get 60 minutes at home that will be guaranteed to be without interruption. I bought a coffee as I seem to experience much better everything with a bit of caffeine in my system and I started typing.
I gave this a truly good shot. I spent an hour typing away line after line and I’ve got about 100 lines of thoughts. Somewhere about the middle I went off on a tangent but most of my items seem to be heading down the same path. And while I seem to be able to generate a good and substantial purpose for my life, none of the options I created seem to bring me that ‘Yes, that’s it!’ moment of clarity. I came very close and definitely misted up a little on some of them, but nothing that I’m truly happy with.
So I’ve put it to one side for a little bit of time and have spent the past few days doing a bit more inner exploration of my plans and feelings. I will go back to this exercise, start again with a clean slate and see where I end up.
I think my problem was I was thinking too much; putting down things that looked good and that I seemed to think would be a good purpose in life rather than what I truly felt. It doesn’t matter if your life’s purpose doesn’t include curing cancer and being nice to little kittens specifically. I need to find what is truly me.
