Discover Your Life Purpose

It’s Not All Up to You
“Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.” John Henry Cardinal Newman
Just like your purpose doesn’t affect you alone, you probably won’t be fulfilling it all on your own either. As mentioned earlier, you may feel a tad overwhelmed or intimidated by what you’ve discovered is your life purpose.
Your mind may be swirling with thoughts like these: “How on earth will I be able to do this myself? What if I can’t do it? What if I screw it up and let everyone down? What if I can’t secure financing? What if I can’t find the resources I need to make this happen?”
These worries are completely normal, but also unnecessary. Here’s why: the bigger and more powerful your life purpose is, the more help you’ll receive to achieve it.
There are two ways to look at this:
1) If you believe that your life purpose is pre-destined, then you also have to believe that the universe (or your choice of governing divinity) would not give you an important purpose and abandon you without a clue about how to complete it.
2) If you believe that you choose your own purpose, then you also have to believe that you have the resourcefulness, ingenuity and smarts to make it happen.
Both scenarios mean one thing: that you are not undertaking this journey without tools or guidance! Either you already have what you need to complete your life purpose, or it will come into your life at the exact moment you need it. That might include meeting other people who have a similar or related purpose and want to team up with you, or it could mean having the perfect opportunities appear right when you need them most!
In fact, there is a little thing called “synchronicity” that will surprise you again and again once you begin following your true purpose. If you are standing at the threshold of something new and exciting and you’re terrified that you can’t do it all on your own – get ready to be awed and amazed!
Everything you need to complete your purpose will appear right when you need it – or you’ll at least know how to get it, if it doesn’t come directly to you. Your job in the meantime is to set aside your fears and doubts, and simply begin moving forward. Take one step, then another. The rest will all fall into place beautifully.
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Possible Challenges You’ll Face
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing
back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.” Henri Frederic Amiel
That last paragraph may have intensified a sense of doubt in your mind. Is it REALLY true that “the rest will fall into place beautifully” if you just keep moving forward?
Yes - and sometimes no. It’s important to understand that you may face a few challenges while you’re working toward your life purpose. Sometimes these challenges will come from inside your own mind (negative thoughts, doubts, and the like), and sometimes they might be external obstacles you didn’t expect to encounter.
This chapter is going to cover some of the most likely challenges you may face, and give you tools and strategies for overcoming them.
Fear of Change
This is a common challenge for people who are firmly entrenched in their current life circumstances. If you’re in your forties, fifties or older, you may think it’s too late to conceive a new life purpose now.
Perhaps you’ve already spent years building a stable career and you don’t want to “rock the boat” now because you stand to lose so much.
Even if you’re younger but have a lot of responsibilities or demands on your time, it may seem monumentally difficult to change directions now without creating a whole lot of havoc in your life.
No matter your specific situation, it’s never too late to make changes that will contribute greater value to the world and create greater meaning and fulfillment in your own life.
Of course, you don’t have to make a giant leap from one lifestyle to another, either. Start small if bigger changes overwhelm you. Spending even an hour a day on meaningful activities can create greater satisfaction that will seep into other areas of your life too.
Maybe later you’ll decide to not only “rock the boat,” but jump out of it entirely and swim to another shore! Or maybe not.
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