What’s the purpose of life, anyway 😟
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Hi friend!
Ever think to yourself —
What is my life purpose? What do I even like to do? What goals do I have? What is my dream life? Is there a “right” way to live?
Because I know for me…these are the type of questions I used to ask myself constantly.
…and the thing is I wouldn’t even allow myself enough time or space to answer those questions because of the amount of anxiety/fear I felt from not knowing.
I truly had no idea what my “purpose” was.
I had no idea what I “liked” to do.
I was just coasting life…
…I went to work/school, hung out with friends, drank/partied and then just repeated that process for as long as I can remember.
Goals? Accomplishing my “dreams,” a plan for the future?! HA. I had zero.
All I knew was I wanted to be happy and at peace….
I just didn’t know how to make that happen or even what that would look like…
My mindset was — I’ll figure it out one day when I grow up.
I was quite delusional. I had no idea how the “real” world worked.
I really had myself believing that things just kinda come together when you’re an adult.
And I was half “correct.”
Things really do come together. Everything does essentially fall into place.
…BUT it takes a level of AWARENESS, ACCEPTANCE, & ACTION to allow for this.
I had to become aware or “awake” to the life I was living.
I had to recognize & accept that I was a sum total of all the decisions I was making.
And so if I wanted to be happy and at peace then it would require that I took the necessary steps NOW to make that happen. Not later, later doesn’t exist. But right NOW. Because the ONLY moment that exist is NOW & I had to fully come to terms with that truth.
Coming to this awareness that the only moment which exist is now and that it is through the steps or decisions I make RIGHT now that impact the life I would want for myself in the future…was a GAME CHANGER for me.
Another game changer for me was learning that there is no “right” or “wrong” way to live, only many ways to live. And the ONLY person who gets to decide what’s right or wrong is me based on my own beliefs.
These recognitions liberated me because it helped me to understand that if I want anything in life — a purpose….a passion….a goal….a dream life….happiness….peace, that it could VERY much happen for me….and there were no “right” or “wrong” ways to go about making it happen.
All I had to do was 1) imagine what I wanted & then become that NOW. While also 2) letting go of any worries/anxieties telling me I was doing it wrong or doing it right.
I surrendered and trusted the process.
If I wanted purpose — I understood that anything I think of NOW can be my “purpose.”
If I wanted goals— I understood that I get to create goals for myself NOW.
If I wanted a dream life where I felt happy and peaceful— well then I understood it meant taking action right NOW in order for that life to present itself into existence.
Life doesn’t just give us hand outs with a blueprint of how our life “should,” look. and that’s because there is no “certain way” of how our life should look.
Our life can be anything we want it to be.
We are the way to make that happen!!!
…And we can help ourselves to realize that once we decide to get out of our own way.
It’s all you.
You get to create anything in this lifetime just by simply giving yourself permission & then deliberately making the conscious choices to take action now.
And so what will it be? If your purpose can be literally anything, what can your purpose be?
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