What is your life really about?
To what or to whom have you dedicated your life?
Who do you listen to guide you or direct your attention?
For what purpose have you given your time, money and energy?
What is your life purpose or mission?
Fame and reputation?
Wealth and financial access to anything you desire?
Spiritual Enlightenment and Self Realization?
Service and Contribution to Humanity?
A soul mate and life partner and companion?
Happy healthy family life?
To live independently and self sufficient?
Productive and meaningful work life?
Simple content and carefree?
In peace with all creation?
Enjoying the pleasures in life?
Free from fear and at peace?
Awake, aware and enthusiastic?
Grateful and appreciative everyday?
Learning and growing from everything and everyone?
Respected by your community and family?
Bel;onging to a group, community?
Philosophically attuned wise in teaching principled living?
Philanthropic, generous and helpful to others?
Connected with your inner guides and spiritually attuned?
Surviving and getting through life?
What voices do you listen to?
Who are your heroes?
What behaviors do you admire?
Are you saving lives or destroying lives?
What do you really care about?
What media gets your attention?
Are you optimistic or pessimistic?
Do you give fear and negativity power or trust Love and creativity?
Are you self seeking, relationship-devoted, or interested in the greater good?
Do you follow your own inner rhythm and ideas or conform with others?Are you focused on living your life your way?
Then please honor and respect your unique needs and stop trying to conform.
Are you here to find a soulmate, an intimate connection and best friend?
Then focus on finding someone who wants the same connection and has similar values and needs.
Is your intention to leave the world a better place?
Then dedicate your words, ideas and activities to improving everything you do.
Do you want to be peaceful and in harmony?
Then give peace and harmony to all life and everyone you encounter.
Be totally honest with yourself!
Are you living with a paradoxical intention..living in opposition to your own values and desires?
Are you living in integrity with your ethics, principles and values?
Make sure everything you do and say and imagine fits with what is important to you!
Life is fun, safe and easy when we are “true” to our selves and living in integrity with our deepest values.
Honesty and Integrity bring great success and inner peace!
Loving and believing in the life learning when we pay attention to the outcome of our choices.
Betty Lue
Purpose Exercise
To bring your purpose to life, you need to make a declaration of your values and describe the things, people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
List 5 answers under each set of questions.
What do I love to do?
What makes me the happiest?
What is my secret ambition?
What has given me the most satisfaction in the past?
What excites me about life?
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What am I good at?
What have others told me I was good at?
In what areas of life have I excelled?
What are some of my strengths?
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What is important to me?
What would I be willing to sacrifice for?
What do I stand for?
What would I commit myself for regardless of the obstacles?
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What was I born to do?
Where in life can I make a difference?
What unique opportunities have been placed in my path?
What specifically does God want me to do?
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Based on the answers above, develop a short paragraph outlining your purpose. Take the three top priorities from the four areas to which you just committed answers. Construct a statement that explains what you are beginning to sense in your purpose. This can be a work in progress. What is important is to commit to something in writing. Your purpose can be anything you want it to be and it can include anything that is important to you.
My Purpose Statement:
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