5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Find Your Life’s Purpose

 

Some people seem to be born knowing what they want in life. They find their passions or their talents early and just know to go after them. If you’re struggling to work out what is you really want to do with your life, don’t give up. This may well be even more likely since Covid and the following financial crisis leading to so many losing jobs and the pattern of work changing with more people working from home , even if maybe it would not have been their choice . People are finding also , with the cost of living increase that they have less choice , less options of how they live their lives . 

 There are some simple questions you can work through to discover your life’s purpose. While it’s important to give each question proper consideration, try not to agonize over your responses. Allow your Inner Child and your intuition to guide your answers, and don’t forget to think big! Make your starting point ‘in the best of all possible worlds.’

 Use these questions to dig deep and find out more about yourself so you can set yourself on your true path. Even if you do not have a job and have a limited income, it is good to have interests that help to keep you in the loop and come across as a positive and engaged person when perhaps looking for a job .... 

 

Question 1 If Money Were No Object, What Would You Do?

If you had a never-ending magic source of money, how would you choose to spend it? Be honest – the answers are to help you, not to impress anyone else!

 Question 2 If You Could Do anything for A Whole Day, How Would You Spend it?

Think of your perfect day. It’s ok if it’s lying on a sun lounger by a pool or skiing in the Alps. Try and describe your ideal day in as much detail as possible.

 Question 3 What’s Your Passion?

What energizes you? What gets your heart racing and your imagination firing? It could be political issues, connecting with people, being creative, or playing sports. Whatever your passion is, write it down! I have an online  gift store and my passion is choosing items to offer from suppliers , designing items for print to order and writing  blogs. 

  Question 4 What Do You Really Love Doing?

Do you like nothing more than to bake or learn new gourmet techniques? Maybe you love writing or analysing or even making spreadsheets. Or being out in nature or helping other people. I love to spend time reading, especially historical fiction and some biographies  and watching television . I like to watch programmes that teach me something such as history and nature programmes and documentaries  and movies . I also still love stamp collecting and colouring for grown ups . 

 Question 5 What Was Your Childhood Passion?

Think back to what you loved to do when you were a kid. What did your parents have to call you away from, to come to the dinner table? What was the thing you would lose hours doing? I spent a lot of time as a child  when not at school , reading . As an only child with health issues and an elderly landlady downstairs , I was prevented from often bringing home friends to play with and games were difficult to play on my own , although my father liked to buy games for me and he and I  played them when he was at home at weekends and in my school holidays , when unusually for fathers of the time in the 60's and early 70's  , he liked to take time off work and look after me far more than my mother did . We played games including Frustration , Build a beetle and Ker plunk and I had toys such as spirograph and a viewmaster with reels of slides for it which included pictures of animals and countries of the world and famous places such as Stonehenge  . 

My father also started my stamp collection , buying my first Stanley Gibbons stamps of the world catalogue , no way would that hold any large worldwide  collections now , but if they are still published are ideal for a child's first collection . Every month he had me enrolled for two deliveries of stamps on approval and I would choose the ones I wanted and he would often give me some extra pocket money to pay for them, along with my weekly comic. 

Childhood comics were something I looked forward to every week . The choice of comic grew with me and over the years included Jack and Jill, Twinkle , Bunty  with a cut out and dress paper doll and clothes on the back page and once my teens arrived I moved on to Jackie . I still love magazines and am amazed that these days I read them on my kindle . 

 Close your eyes and remember back when you were totally absorbed in some kind of activity, maybe drawing or playing make-believe games or drawing or being outdoors.

 Once you have a good picture of what lights you up, both now and when you were a kid, you can start to see some themes emerging. Think laterally about how you can begin to focus on what’s important to you. Your life’s purpose is there in front of you.

Perhaps you could turn these interests into an income such as reviewing books , producing art , buying and selling stamps or coins , or .... writing blogs 

Valerie 

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5 questions to ask yourself