The Purpose to Your Purpose is Your Actual Purpose
By: Lyle Grossi
Tags: Connection, Wisdom, Self Reflection, Purpose Of Life, Innovation

Did I just spin you around in circles and let go with you in a dizzy circling for answers? Maybe because it is your purpose to find your own way.

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -Robert Byrne

You have heard it. I have heard it. Any inspirational speaker ever goes to the crowd: “Live towards your passion.” Yes, Batman certainly lived out his “passion” of beating up the criminally ill in Gotham as a passion to give the city a sense of justice. Or perhaps Spider-man’s passion is to actually be web shooting camera man, the best in all of New York City.

We never know exactly where passion leads us. Perhaps aimlessly around in a forest while on a trip from the best shrooms around. I never been on a trip like this before, anyone who has can comment about it and let me know.

When you wake up in the morning and feel sure of yourself; you are different and unique. The level of focus that comes with this feeling is immeasurable when considering anything else.

Now, you are wondering how do you find purpose? Is there a step by step guide or certain habits that you need to put in place to make it happen? Should I spend a day in complete solitude and allow thoughts to come in and out. Then vent them out to come to an answer.

Well, yes you can give a step by step guide to those who feel good with a procedural mindset for all of my mathematical and logical folks out there. Then there is habits and being habitual with what you put in place by holding yourself accountable from this point onward. Be creative with your habits by having them connect to something you already enjoy. Finally, let me not forget solitude where someone can view from the inward on out. Self-reflection allows us to see our behaviors and how they affect our choices.

All of those have been written in nauseam and I do not plan on restating what you already heard and just read it worded differently. But I would give you one principle that works for me.

Yes, only one principle you can take with you to find purpose within your strengths by using this site to help guide you: https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register.

I came across this website and survey on Coursera called The Science of Wellbeing. (If you haven’t taken the course on there with Yale Professor Laurie Santos then I highly suggest you give it a go!)

The deeper question I ask you is: Does your purpose align with your strengths or does your strengths against your purpose?

Finding the answer to this question I hope will give you more answers than they do questions. But if you got more questions for yourself than work still needs to be done.

I believe in you, now believe in yourself and get it done.

As the wise Buddha once said, “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

Let this marinate for a bit before going into an inception like dig inside of your brain. How is it simmering now? Did it come to a boil yet? Is it ready to be unveiled?

Great, this is the time to follow some steps, which are:

Grab a pen Grab your journal (if you do not have a journal get one before this practice) Write down the first five thoughts you have Share it with a close friend Give them the same set of steps Rinse and repeat

What is now occurring with this process? Spreading of information and meaningful conversation is starting to accumulate. This is how purpose is built with community of individuals to go through the process with another like minded individual.

Let me know how this goes in the comment section what you and your friend thought. I would be interested to know.

In the end, it all comes down to finding the right sign pointing to your purpose and it can be right in front of you the whole time. Keep going, you got this!