Are most of your weekends spent sitting on the couch contemplating your higher calling? It’s time you should be getting off your ass and discovering what really makes you happy rather than what you think makes you happy. Ditch your thoughts and get on to some action with these soul-searching questions:
1) Rather than ask “What is my life purpose?” ask yourself “What can I do with my time that makes me feel happy?”
Being with nature, grooving to music or simply cooking together with friends can make me loose myself in the joy of the moment. These moments when lived to the fullest will bring you closer to where your interest lies. Life’s purpose has all the frills of the baggage if taken too seriously. Rather break down the question into something simple and doable.
2) How much can you take? How many sacrifices can you make?
Nothing comes on a platter. If you want to be a professional artist, but you aren’t willing to accept rejection then then you’re done even before you start! Or if you are an entrepreneur and can’t take setbacks and failures, then your enterprise will never see the daylight. What determines our success is our ability to stick to our convictions when we are hardest hit.
3) Are you still doing what gave you kicks as a child?
Are you still in touch with the child in you? I remember, as a child I used to dance and write for the sheer joy of it. And if someone was to ask why I didn’t anymore, my adult answer would be because nobody would want to read what I am writing or would want to see me dance! Somehow, hearing this, I am sure my nine-year-old self would have started crying that I had stopped pursuing my passion for the fear of being judged!
4) What makes you lose track of time?
What made greats like Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and many achieve success is their dedication to work in a way that they often lost track of time. We all have these moments either while reading a thriller all-night long or playing video-games etc. Only, we fail to identify them or tend to label such moments as insignificant. In fact these timeless moments are clues to what appeals most to our inner being.
5) Are you willing to be laughed at?
Embrace vulnerability and embarrassment: the ability to lay bare your dreams, risk everything and open to being ridiculed by the world. If you are invested in conforming to an image that your society or family expects out of you at the price of not listening to your heart, there is no way in hell you are going to be living your purpose!
6) Start making a difference
You can’t save the whole world, but you can definitely start making your own share of contribution to make this world a better place. Pick up a cause (there are so many that bombard you when you open the newspaper) and do your part. You will automatically start viewing your life in the larger scheme of things.
7) Ditch the comfort zone
For most of us, the couch is comfortable and we get caught up in our daily routines wondering where did our youthful passion vanish? And why nothing new happens to us? But, we are the ones that has to make life happen, keep the fire alive and through trial-and-error process explore new facets about ourselves.
8) If you had a year to live, what would you do?
We all have our bucket list and postpone it till it’s too late. We act as if we will live forever and then realize that it is now or never! Death actually forces us to zero in on our priorities and makes us contemplate on how people will remember us when we are no longer there? So, what is your legacy going to be?
9) Finding something bigger than yourself
Your higher purpose will always transcend you and be bigger than you. It is what works through you for the greater good. So, think big.
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