Using the Laws of Attraction
Why did you get up this morning?
Why did you get up this morning?
I'd like to be able to hear everyone's answer to that question - really! The reason it is so important is because one of the essential ingredients to a long and happy life is having a purpose to be alive.
This may seem obvious or irrelevant. It is easy to just be so caught up in surviving the day and all its demands that something like a purpose can feel like a luxury. Yet study after study shows when people have a purpose they live better, healthier and happier lives.
We all have the stock answer ready - go to work, make money so my family can eat or following a dream. But what is your soul purpose? What purpose gives you passion or hope or a fire? What purpose do you hold that inspires you to move mountains?
I have always envied the people who seemed to have a clear and obvious purpose that guided their lives. They just knew. I never thought I did. I seemed to be in a constant state of moving and searching unable to lock on to a concrete and worthy purpose in the world.
Often we define a valid purpose as something that is grand and powerful and obvious. I will be a superstar or successful businessperson or a builder of cities. What is often built into that kind of purpose is the idea we need the world to acknowledge our purpose and we need validation when we feel we have succeeded. The bigger the parade or prize the better.
But what if your purpose isn't exciting or obvious or even visible to anyone but you? Would it still hold value in your eyes? Would you still feel a passion to fulfill it? What if there was never a parade or a prize when you achieved your goal? Would you still feel joyful? Or would there be a let down after all that hard work and no one even knows?
I can't give you your answers but this idea did help me find mine. A little hindsight into my own life's journey has made it pretty clear what my driving purpose has been all along. As you look back over your own life, what do you see as the purpose that has been driving you?
Why did you get up this morning? I hope you will let me and everyone here know your answer. If you're not sure take some time to think about it and let us know tomorrow. It will be a new day and have a new purpose!
Jill
venusfactor.com
I'd like to be able to hear everyone's answer to that question - really! The reason it is so important is because one of the essential ingredients to a long and happy life is having a purpose to be alive.
This may seem obvious or irrelevant. It is easy to just be so caught up in surviving the day and all its demands that something like a purpose can feel like a luxury. Yet study after study shows when people have a purpose they live better, healthier and happier lives.
We all have the stock answer ready - go to work, make money so my family can eat or following a dream. But what is your soul purpose? What purpose gives you passion or hope or a fire? What purpose do you hold that inspires you to move mountains?
I have always envied the people who seemed to have a clear and obvious purpose that guided their lives. They just knew. I never thought I did. I seemed to be in a constant state of moving and searching unable to lock on to a concrete and worthy purpose in the world.
Often we define a valid purpose as something that is grand and powerful and obvious. I will be a superstar or successful businessperson or a builder of cities. What is often built into that kind of purpose is the idea we need the world to acknowledge our purpose and we need validation when we feel we have succeeded. The bigger the parade or prize the better.
But what if your purpose isn't exciting or obvious or even visible to anyone but you? Would it still hold value in your eyes? Would you still feel a passion to fulfill it? What if there was never a parade or a prize when you achieved your goal? Would you still feel joyful? Or would there be a let down after all that hard work and no one even knows?
I can't give you your answers but this idea did help me find mine. A little hindsight into my own life's journey has made it pretty clear what my driving purpose has been all along. As you look back over your own life, what do you see as the purpose that has been driving you?
Why did you get up this morning? I hope you will let me and everyone here know your answer. If you're not sure take some time to think about it and let us know tomorrow. It will be a new day and have a new purpose!
Jill
venusfactor.com
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