Recognising the Purpose of This Period of Your Life

Our lives have purpose, or to be more accurate, our lives have many purposes. As we go through our lives, each period has its own purpose. But a purpose is not something that we make up by ourselves.

It's something that already exists in our lives. We have one right now in this part of our lives. Either we don't know what it is or it's something that we are already doing, but we haven't acknowledged it as our purpose.

So if we don't know what it is, then we are missing an opportunity to achieve it. Also, if we did know what it was, we could more clearly focus on it and get a more meaningful experience from it. But let's take a step back for a second and ask, what is a purpose?

A purpose is a goal in a specific area of our lives. It is something that can only be achieved by us but could be for us or for the people around us. So how can we find the purpose of this part or any part of our lives?

We need to be careful here because there could be something that we want our purpose to be or something that we feel strongly that our purpose is, but really it isn't. So how can we know that something is our real purpose? That's really down to what is generating the need for that purpose.

Always, a purpose is wrapped up in our daily lives. It is related to the main theme of what we are going through at the time, so it could be related to work, family, or our private lives. So in one of these areas, the need for that purpose keeps trying to get our attention more than anything else, and while we are in this particular period of our lives, it will keep coming up and making itself known to us.

It could be a problem, an issue, or something we keep thinking about more than anything else. It could be an area that causes stress or where we get criticized by others, or a place where there's conflict. But it's definitely something that repeats.

, it's down to us. When we are trying to find it, it will bring with it a "knowing" that it's the right thing. There is nothing more valuable than really knowing something.

And we must remember that "knowing" is a feeling, not just a thought. So once we've identified what that thing is, the next step is to work out what we need to be doing about it. So what is a purpose trying to do?

Every purpose, of course, is trying to improve our lives in a small or sometimes a big way. But it's best to think of them as building blocks on the way to a bigger purpose. So we should look for how we can elevate the particular situation we have identified and how our input can alter it.

Purposes are pieces of the puzzle that help us make gains in our lives if we can focus on them and commit to them. And, of course, while we are pursuing a purpose, it brings us all of the experiences that go along with working towards that purpose. And these experiences help to shape and change us.

And we mustn't forget that it's okay if we make a mistake finding the purpose for this period of our lives, as long as we realize and try again. If we are wrong, we'll soon find out because we'll meet a lot of resistance to what we are doing. That's not to say that our purpose won't be challenging, but if it becomes unreasonably difficult, then we are on the wrong track.

A Simple Test for Knowing You’re on the Right Path

Every day, from when I wake up to when I go to bed, my life is a series of choices. And each choice for me is important. What to wear, what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, what I should say to someone, what to do in a work situation, how to spend my free time.

I make choices all day long, and I never want to make the wrong choice or make a poor choice or fail to make a choice. I want to make the right choice every time. Each choice is important because it affects me.

It could affect my body condition, my relationships, or my future. Likewise, if I do things in the wrong order or not in the best order, then it affects my life. With so many choices all day every day, it’s difficult or impossible to make the right choice and do the right thing every time.

And although I can never really know whether I’m doing the right thing until I do it, there are clues that I need to recognize to see that it’s the right thing. Recognizing the clues and what is a clue is the key for me. Doing the right thing sometimes, of course, means not doing what I want to do and doing something I don’t particularly want to do because it’s the right thing to do.

I can’t be selfish in my choices, but that doesn’t mean the result can’t still be good for me or that I can’t sometimes do the thing I want to do; it’s just that it needs to truly be the best thing to do. And that means that I need to be sensitive to which way things are going. People’s reactions, especially people close to me, are a big clue as to whether I’m doing the right thing or not.

It sometimes happens that someone says that I should do something, and when they say it, it’s like a straight punch that hits me. The truth of it really rings a bell, and I know that it’s the right thing. But just as important as choosing the right thing to do is recognizing when I should stop doing something.

If people have an abnormally strong reaction, much stronger than the situation warrants, then my alarm bells go off, and I know it’s a clue to stop doing what I’m doing. Or if something seemingly simple becomes impossible to do, then I know it’s a clue to give up. I sometimes feel as if I’m being blocked, and this can be mentally too.

I get uncharacteristically confused, and in the end, have to give up what I’m doing. This is a clue to stop. These clues are everywhere, and at first, I didn’t recognize them as clues, or I couldn’t interpret their meaning.

And that was okay because I was learning. But as I got better at picking up the clues, I could look back and see where I had gone wrong, and this helped me to get it right the next time. And there is always a next time.

My life isn’t that different every day, and situations repeat themselves all the time. So I can always find the same clues again and then make the right choices. Each choice is very important to me because it changes my life.