A simple equation:
The Equation
Gifts + passion + values = purpose.
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Your gifts are not just your skills and talents, but
what you love to do.
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Your passion is something for which you feel a
deep curiosity and interest.
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Your values include your beliefs and what you
consider to be most important.
When you can identify those three aspects of your identity, you will have a better sense of how you can maximize your sense of purpose in order to improve your health and sense of wellbeing.
An exercise
Find a time when you can sit down, without distraction, and write honestly. Ask yourself the following questions.
1-Who am I?
2-What do I have to contribute to the world?
3-If I only had one year left, how would I spend it? - 4-What are my core beliefs, morals, and principles?
5-In what moments in the past week have I found myself
completely engaged in and focused on what I'm doing,
without stress or distraction?
Allow yourself to write openly and honestly for as long as you need to come up with answers to these questions, which will help you discover your gifts, passion, and values.
Remember—there's no right or wrong answer, and your purpose can change throughout your life! You may need to take some time and re-assess your responses to these questions a few times over a period of weeks to come to an understanding of your own personal purpose in life.
Stay mindful of your attitudes and feelings during the day, and reflect upon the times when you feel that you feel fully alive. This process of self-discovery will help you move closer to your own reason for being, which can have powerful effects on your health and wellbeing.
You might notice, for example, that there is a lack of joy and inspiration in your experience. Maybe you have a tendency to get annoyed right now. Or perhaps it’s just that your mind is a little restless and needs to be calmed down.
It’s good to develop a clear intention of what you want to achieve in such circumstances. You can set yourself the goal of finding a way to enjoy your practice more, or of calming your mind.
Allow yourself to write openly and honestly for as long as you need to come up with answers to these questions, which will help you discover your gifts, passion, and values.
Remember—there's no right or wrong answer, and your purpose can change throughout your life! You may need to take some time and re-assess your responses to these questions a few times over a period of weeks to come to an understanding of your own personal purpose in life.
Stay mindful of your attitudes and feelings during the day, and reflect upon the times when you feel that you feel fully alive. This process of self-discovery will help you move closer to your own reason for being, which can have powerful effects on your health and wellbeing.
You might notice, for example, that there is a lack of joy and inspiration in your experience. Maybe you have a tendency to get annoyed right now. Or perhaps it’s just that your mind is a little restless and needs to be calmed down.
It’s good to develop a clear intention of what you want to achieve in such circumstances. You can set yourself the goal of finding a way to enjoy your practice more, or of calming your mind.
You can take this awareness of purpose into the other
stages of your practice, monitoring from time to time
what progress you’ve made in moving towards your
goals.
Perhaps the first approach you take doesn’t seem to be working, and you need to try another method. Or perhaps what you are doing works very well – perhaps even too well!
You may try to calm your restless mind and be so successful that your mind becomes rather dull and sleepy. At that point you may wish to change your purpose for a more suitable one – in this case perhaps you could adopt the goal of balancing relaxation and energy.
Having goals like these can revolutionize your meditation practice. It’s all too easy for our meditation practice to become stale and mechanical, as we unmindfully use some technique that was once appropriate but isn’t now.
Having clear goals is another way of bringing more
mindfulness into our practice. It helps us to become not only aware of what emotional, mental, and physical states are present in any given moment, but keeps us alive to where we are going and, very importantly, whether what we are doing is taking us to where we want to go.
Each person is motivated by a sense of purpose or why am I here. If you are a parent, it is your kids.
Perhaps the first approach you take doesn’t seem to be working, and you need to try another method. Or perhaps what you are doing works very well – perhaps even too well!
You may try to calm your restless mind and be so successful that your mind becomes rather dull and sleepy. At that point you may wish to change your purpose for a more suitable one – in this case perhaps you could adopt the goal of balancing relaxation and energy.
Having goals like these can revolutionize your meditation practice. It’s all too easy for our meditation practice to become stale and mechanical, as we unmindfully use some technique that was once appropriate but isn’t now.
Having clear goals is another way of bringing more
mindfulness into our practice. It helps us to become not only aware of what emotional, mental, and physical states are present in any given moment, but keeps us alive to where we are going and, very importantly, whether what we are doing is taking us to where we want to go.
Each person is motivated by a sense of purpose or why am I here. If you are a parent, it is your kids.
If you are an environmentalist, create a better planet for
future generations. If you are a business owner, provide
your expertise/product to your clients.
Think of how that motivates you each day (beyond the money). Your employees also need to be motivated beyond the money and purpose gives each person a reason to go into work each day.
Purpose can be given to any person in any position. For example: A receptionist purpose is to manage “first impressions”, an accountant’s purpose is cash flow or business continuity, a plant worker’s purpose is “build a great product” (which will be purchased again and again).
Therefore be sure you don’t dismiss a position because you aren’t sure what their purpose is or how it fits into the big picture – everyone fits into the big picture. Finding the right words to explain it may be a challenge, but you are up to it. You can do it.
Give your employees purpose and they will reward you with hard work and loyalty.
Think of how that motivates you each day (beyond the money). Your employees also need to be motivated beyond the money and purpose gives each person a reason to go into work each day.
Purpose can be given to any person in any position. For example: A receptionist purpose is to manage “first impressions”, an accountant’s purpose is cash flow or business continuity, a plant worker’s purpose is “build a great product” (which will be purchased again and again).
Therefore be sure you don’t dismiss a position because you aren’t sure what their purpose is or how it fits into the big picture – everyone fits into the big picture. Finding the right words to explain it may be a challenge, but you are up to it. You can do it.
Give your employees purpose and they will reward you with hard work and loyalty.
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