An idea isn’t much good if no one knows about it.
A feeling cannot provide comfort if it is not shared.
A story will not inspire another if it is not told.
And you will not add your much-needed value to this world if you spend all of your time trying to work out who you are and what your purpose is, rather than actually being authentically you and doing what really makes you feel alive.
Because that’s how we actually find ourselves and our purpose.
By taking action, each and every day – with good intent, courage, and an open mind and then being aware of how those actions make us feel. An inspired, joyful, and peaceful feeling means you have hit on something true and right for you. An anxious, fearful, and drained feeling means you have hit on something not true nor right for you.
Both are important – one shows you the way, and the other gives you directions when you are lost.
Finding yourself and your purpose, in my humble opinion, does not generally present itself in a eureka moment, it is always within us just waiting for us to allow it to see the light of day, to give ourselves the time and space to understand how we feel in different places, with different people, doing different things and then to start having an honest conversation with ourselves about who we really are and what we should really be doing – no matter what others do or do not think we should be.
This route is by far the best way, to find yourself and your purpose, whilst at the same time creating so much value, for so many others.
The reality is life is much shorter than we actually allow ourselves to believe.
We do not have time to navel gaze, procrastinate, and roam the wilderness waiting for a knight in shining armour to rescue us.
If we can truly open our eyes, and look at ourselves afresh – when we come alive and when we shrivel away, we will clearly see our needs, our values, our purpose, and then we simply need to do more of the stuff that feeds us and less of the stuff that kills us.
And that’s how we start to finally be exactly who we are meant to be.
