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Are You Pursuing Your Life Purpose?
If you don’t wake up most mornings feeling a sense of meaning and excitement about your day, it probably means that you’re not pursuing your life purpose.
Society and the media have been trying to tell you what your life purpose is, but I’m here to tell you that they’re lying to you. There is another path you can take.
What Society Wants You To Believe Your Life Purpose Is
Society teaches us that acquiring money and stuff is the purpose of life.
We’re constantly bombarded with advertisements showing happy people who just bought some new gadget or service.
People we meet always seem to be checking out what kind of car we drive. Or they’re often comparing jobs, houses, and clothing with us.
It seems like money and stuff are how we are judged in today’s society. So to deal with this, we spend much of our time trying to acquire more of both. The problem is that neither of these things offer any lasting happiness or fulfillment.
Distractions
When you’re on your deathbed, do you think that a bunch of money and stuff will really mean anything to you? I think a lot of people have figured this out to some degree already. They just haven’t been able to determine what other options they have.
When you don’t see any purpose or meaning to life, you are left feeling empty.
I strongly believe that this is why many people spend their time distracting themselves. Excessive television viewing, constant use of mp3 players, drug and alcohol abuse; all these things serve to take our attention away from how we feel inside.
Dare To Be Different
If you don’t wake up most mornings feeling a sense of meaning to your life, and excitement about your day, it probably means that you’re not pursuing your life purpose. You need to discover what you’re passionate about and find a way to make it benefit others as well. That is your purpose in life.
Nothing will provide you more happiness then living a life of service doing something you love. Just ask yourself, would your rather have a bunch of stuff, or would you rather feel happy and fulfilled?
Oddly enough, when you choose to pursue your life purpose, the money and stuff often end up showing up anyways.
Join us in our next post when we will be discussing finding your life purpose.
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2:30 pm
Today I had this awesome conversation with a man from Italy, the owner of the hair salon I go to, and we discussed the incredible and significant difference between the North American lifestyle and the European lifestyle. Here, he said, and I agreed, what matters most to us is accumulating stuff and working for money. There, in Europe, the pace of life is different. What takes priority is enjoying oneself, whether it be over a four-or five-hour dinner at a restaurant with family or friends, or closing up shop from 1-4 in the afternoon, taking long walks in the cities or towns, or having a coffee or tea with a friend. There is no rush. Work and a large home or having lots of stuff comes second. He and I both miss that sensibility we experienced and try to get a hint of here.
The idea of prioritizing enjoying oneself and properly prioritizing our lives is akin, I believe, to finding our life’s purpose. For one thing, we slow the hell down and gain perspective. For another, it would totally seem, by the general happiness of those people who get it right, that everything they want is gained anyway, for lack of such frantic trying the likes of which we exhibit here.
Stuff needs to get done, yes, but it won’t be the end of the world if it gets done a bit later. Work has to happen as well, granted, but it will be a lot more bearable if we included first in our lives that which we actually need most—making time for what matters most. We may even find, as you suggested, that we end up pursuing as work what we tend to actually enjoy doing.
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