5 Ways to Connect to Your Purpose

You’ve not left it in the car or dropped it down the back of the sofa.

You can often find people searching for their purpose as if they are trying to spot land on an explorers expedition. As though if you just look hard enough it will appear on the horizon like some other wordly mirage.

The truth is that your purpose hasn’t been anywhere, it hasn’t been on a cruise or an extended weekend break. It’s always been there patiently waiting for you to CONNECT to.

Think about the times that you’ve been doing something and got completely lost in it. The time passes and you’ve not looked up once, thought about eating a chocolate bar or what you’re going to have for tea.

Or you’ve got so enthusiastic about something that you’ve started using the arm motions to make a point. You’ve written reams and reams of notes without stopping to make a drink and now you desperately need the toilet.

You’ve been connected. To something that makes you passionate (not in that way!). You’ve got other people on board with your excitement. This doesn’t feel like work, it just feels like you.

You can’t wait to tell someone about what you’re going to do and people start to follow you around, be attracted to you (not like that!). More like the pied piper, where they can’t help but listen to what you’ve got to say. You’ve got an energy, a magnetism and suddenly you are surrounded with like-minded people.

It might sound like fairytales and dreaming, but when you connect to your purpose, this becomes a reality. When you look at where you are now, are you dreading waking up for another day of the same old same old? Feeling demotivated, distracted and dragging yourself into the shower before another exhausting day pretending to be someone you’re not?

Do you spend time in the toilets composing yourself or purposely make out your camera is broken on video calls, so you don’t have to face anyone?

Have you got an interest in finding out more about your higher self, intuition but you don’t know where to start?

5 ways to connect to your purpose

1. Think about something you used to enjoy doing as a child. Was it something that required creativity, patience or were you always helping people? Did you get excited at showing someone how to do something or sat and wrote your own stories for hours? Perhaps you loved playing with animals or baking.
2. What captivates your attention? What podcasts are you listening to and what books have you read over and over again that are on your bedside table.
3. Ask other people what they think. We can often miss the most obvious thing. What do your friends, family and colleagues know that you’re really good at and that makes you happy? Be open-minded, it might not be what you expect.
4. Meditate on what your purpose is. Imagine yourself doing what you are really passionate about. Again be open minded. Your subconscious knows the answer, but you might be surprised!
5. What are the things that are really important to you to stand by. The things that you would defend yourself and others against. When was the last time that you reviewed your personal values and where in your life and leadership you might not be in balance with them?

Journaling on any of the above will give you valuable insight into what your purpose might contain. There might be a spark here that leads to a conversation, a book, a chance meeting. The rest as they say is history.

WHAT IF I’VE WASTED MY LIFE?

You might choose to take a completely different direction when you connect to your purpose. You might just need too refocus your time and energy into a different place. Maybe you choose to work more with people than processes or for a company that matches more with your values and ethics. You might not even need to leave your current role, just see things differently and adjust things in your sightline.

The thought of having spent 20 years or more nurturing a career that wasn’t for you could be a disappointing discovery. Yet if you think about everything you’ve learnt along your path. It’s all a learning experience that you will have been through for a reason to prepare you for the next stage. You’ll often have been using the skills that you will use in your new career and things that were always a struggle, suddenly become effortless because you are operating on purpose and with a purpose.

KEEP AN OPEN MIND

If you’re worrying about paying your mortgage or what the neighbours will think when you tell them you’re going to be a florist, these are perfectly natural reactions. You are used to being defined by a status, a title, a label or a role. Introducing yourself as something that others might perceive as less than is a hurdle you will need to get over.

It’s all part of your egos cunning plan to keep you safe and exactly where you are. You will be missing out on the opportunity to find peace and a sense of freedom that is what you are craving by stepping into all that you are and all that you came to be.

Our programming as a society to see wealth and possessions as an indicator of happiness is one that is slowly unravelling, but you have to be able to stand in your own power and sod what anyone else is going to think.

It’s a leap of faith, but the alternative could be spending the next 20 years wondering what could have been.

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