Finding your Purpose

" The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of my earliest lessons of living a life with meaning came from my mother. Her ability to demonstrate compassion to everyone that she interacted with has always mesmerized me. She had a sense of purpose in what she did and the way she does till date.

Decades later, here I am sharing my learnings around "Finding your Purpose" because having a true sense of purpose helps you think beyond yourself, it helps you a gain an emotion of fulfillment.

We all long for a living a purposeful life, yet we spend weeks in trying to understand how do we live one. Part of this is because we want our purpose to be grand, where as all that is required is to identify something that you can relate to and cultivate it over a period of time.

1. Immerse yourself in meaningful moments - Look for those moments that relates to you, something that you believe in and immerse yourself in it
2. Practice Self Awareness - Do take 30 minutes every day to self reflect on how you would like your day to be or how your day was
3. Demonstrate Compassion - Every individual is pursuing their own journey, show kindness in your words when you speak and in your action when you do something
4. Have the right focus - Prioritize what you would like to do and focus on executing that effectively rather than multi task. It is not about enhancing your productivity here, it is about pursuing your purpose
5. Seek help - Always reach out to others and seek their perspectives. A purpose cannot be achieved by one single individual. This could be your colleagues, friends your family
6. Always Listen : Listen to your inner self, and from every source out there in the world that will help connect your purpose to action
7. Trust Yourself : There will be situations that will make you believe that you have lost your sense of purpose, that is where you need to trust yourself more than anything else.

There are many avenues to find your purpose. It however requires commitment and passion to pursue it.

• Being a good human
• Leading a healthy life
• Contributing to the community
• Experiencing the world

As G.R Smith says "You were created for something awesome. Find your purpose"

Start exploring your purpose.....