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The Truth About Finding Your “Purpose”
So often we spend life simply existing, but to live is the rarest thing in the world.
Do you ever wonder what your purpose is?
If you’re anything like me, and most other Millennials, I was told I could become whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. When I was a kid, to me, that meant being a gas station attendant. No joke, all I wanted was to serve people and talk to them all day long…this was my dream.
As you can imagine, this wasn’t exactly a “career path” my parents were too stoked to support and I was encouraged to find other passions, ones without the constant smell of toxic fuems. I dove into every sport imaginable, I learned multiple instruments, I was in plays, I studied…I did everything.
Finding my passion became this near-obsession that followed me into adulthood. This question of “what is your purpose” can pervade into every single thought and decision made throughout the day if you let it.
Somewhere along the way, I came to believe that one’s life purpose must be tied to their job title. That what you do for work is what your life is meant to for. And while we do spend the majority of our life working, roughly 90,000 waking hours, it isn’t’ the only place where purpose exists.
While creating a mission statement for yourself, finding a cause to devote your life to, or creating a professional plan for yourself are all great things, there is something far more purposeful. This single reality trumps everything else.
Here's the truth: Your purpose isn’t what you are building, something you find, or a career path that you create.
YOU as a person, are your purpose.
A business can go under, a job title can be taken away, a relationship or family status can disappear. These can all be lost. But YOU can’t be.
Being yourself in every single step you take is your purpose.
It really is that simple.
As I wandering around every moment attempting to understand what I was supposed to “do with my life” I found that through the conversations I had with people, the things I tried, and the places I went…I was…
