Posts tagged Purpose In Life
Organize Your Life – Four Steps to Create Inspired Action
Aug 9th
Clutter clearing, getting organized, and simplifying your life is a way to uncover what you love and to open the door to inspired action in whatever you do. Inspired action is different than just being busy or active. You know you are inspired when work becomes play, you have an increase in energy, experience a single minded focus, and listen to your inner voice which makes any task or challenge feel effortless and enjoyable.
If you would like more inspired action in your clutter free journey and get in the inspired zone to achieve any goal or project in your home or life, here are four simple strategies so you can make the shift to be inspired, creative and energized.
Clarify what it is you want to create by letting go of clutter in your home. Decluttering and organizing a home office can reveal the desire to increase business and make more money. Getting rid of junk may be an inner desire to shift from being stuck in any area of your life to making more fulfilling choices. Clearing out a closet may be the beginning of decluttering your wardrobe to motivate you to get fit and healthy and create a new look. Getting rid of what you no longer love and use may be the desire to find your purpose in life. So connect your decluttering and organizing projects to what you want to create in your home and the big benefit you want to experience in your life.
Set your intention. Intention is a few simple words that state what you want to create and empower your actions. Intention is simple, can be visual, a feeling or define your end result. You could say I want to create calm in my living room which inspires you to remove clutter, change furnishings to softer color and add candles or elements for nature for a more relaxing energy.
You may intend to have your financial area in perfect order which may inspire you to feel positive, manage money better and attract prosperity. Your intention could be to run ten kilometers a couple times a week which is a great motivator to declutter and organize sports equipment in the garage, get the kitchen menu and pantry organized and go through your closet making comfortable exercise clothes a priority. Intention connects your subconscious to your conscious which empowers you to intuitively take those inspired action baby steps that make the space, time and opportunity for your inner desire to create an outer result.
Make a detailed crystal clear picture of what you want to create. Think thoughts, visualize an image, and write a description that will uplift your energy, get you focused and make you feel excited about your end result. Play with this, add detail, use your five senses and add to your vision as you gain clarity. A consistent focus on the end result will guide you to intuitively take the right action to get the result you want. Often this process allows you to skip steps and achieve your end result a lot quicker.
Take that first step. Stop thinking about the way things are and keep dreaming about the way you want them to be, while you start creating the positive change that you want. Decluttering and organizing are part of designing how you want to live and making the room for vision and inspired action. Keep in mind baby steps are the beginning of big dreams.
You will find decluttering your home and getting organized will create the positive energy for inspired action in any area of your life. Get clear on what you want, set an intention, detail your personal vision and take that very important first step.
How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes
Feb 19th
Here’s another great post by one of my favorite authors Steve Pavlina from http://www.stevepavlina.com
How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.
Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter. Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping. All that a lack of belief will do is make it take longer, so if you’re one of those people, just change the number 20 in the title of this blog entry to 40 (or 60 if you’re really stubborn). Most likely though if you don’t believe you have a purpose, then you probably won’t believe what I’m saying anyway, but even so, what’s the risk of investing an hour just in case?
Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. A master martial artist asked Bruce to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.
Here’s what to do:
- Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
- Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
- Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
- Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.
That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.
For those who are very entrenched in low-awareness living, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. But if you persist, after 100 or 200 or maybe even 500 answers, you’ll be struck by the answer that causes you to surge with emotion, the answer that breaks you. If you’ve never done this, it may very well sound silly to you. So let it seem silly, and do it anyway.
As you go through this process, some of your answers will be very similar. You may even re-list previous answers. Then you might head off on a new tangent and generate 10-20 more answers along some other theme. And that’s fine. You can list whatever answer pops into your head as long as you just keep writing.
At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.
You may also discover a few answers that seem to give you a mini-surge of emotion, but they don’t quite make you cry — they’re just a bit off. Highlight those answers as you go along, so you can come back to them to generate new permutations. Each reflects a piece of your purpose, but individually they aren’t complete. When you start getting these kinds of answers, it just means you’re getting warm. Keep going.
It’s important to do this alone and with no interruptions. If you’re a nihilist, then feel free to start with the answer, “I don’t have a purpose,” or “Life is meaningless,” and take it from there. If you keep at it, you’ll still eventually converge.
When I did this exercise, it took me about 25 minutes, and I reached my final answer at step 106. Partial pieces of the answer (mini-surges) appeared at steps 17, 39, and 53, and then the bulk of it fell into place and was refined through steps 100-106. I felt the feeling of resistance (wanting to get up and do something else, expecting the process to fail, feeling very impatient and even irritated) around steps 55-60. At step 80 I took a 2-minute break to close my eyes, relax, clear my mind, and to focus on the intention for the answer to come to me — this was helpful as the answers I received after this break began to have greater clarity.
Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.
When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.
Discovering your purpose is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.
If you’re inclined to ask why this little process works, just put that question aside until after you’ve successfully completed it. Once you’ve done that, you’ll probably have your own answer to why it works. Most likely if you ask 10 different people why this works (people who’ve successfully completed it), you’ll get 10 different answers, all filtered through their individual belief systems, and each will contain its own reflection of truth.
Obviously, this process won’t work if you quit before convergence. I’d guesstimate that 80-90% of people should achieve convergence in less than an hour. If you’re really entrenched in your beliefs and resistant to the process, maybe it will take you 5 sessions and 3 hours, but I suspect that such people will simply quit early (like within the first 15 minutes) or won’t even attempt it at all. But if you’re drawn to read this blog (and haven’t been inclined to ban it from your life yet), then it’s doubtful you fall into this group.
Give it a shot! At the very least, you’ll learn one of two things: your true purpose in life -or- that you should unsubscribe from this blog.
