When I first began my quest to know my life purpose, I thought, honestly, that it was some kind of divine job description. I thought it was this mysterious thing I had to DO, once I figured out what it was. What really bugged me was that if this “thing” I had to “DO” was so darned important, then why the heck do we not already know what it is!? I also tended to think that my life purpose, because it was a “thing” that I had to “DO”, was a job or career. Nope.
Because life purpose was such a baffling thing to me, I studied it intensely and found it extremely compelling. I found out everything I could – read every book on it (including lots of career books), went to all kinds of websites, did all the tests, took the courses, and did all the journaling assignments. You name it, I did it.
What I found was at the end of it all was the realization that life purpose was NOT something I had to DO as a job! Major relief there, let me tell you! Because I was not very much closer on that facet of it at that point.
So, if life purpose is not a job, what is it?
Life purpose is a couple of things. The first thing is… READ MORE