How To Know What You’re Meant To Do!

All of us are currently fighting a great battle and soon we will win. However, the pandemic has impacted our life's to the point where we might feel lost because some of us have lost our job, our business has taken a hit, we might feel we don't know what are we meant to do! When you live in a world that is constantly telling you to follow your heart, trust your gut, quit your day job and do what you love, it can be disheartening to find yourself not knowing where to start. When you start thinking "I don't know what to do with my life", what you really mean is that you don’t yet know who you are, or you don’t know what’s worth suffering for.

Finding your purpose is not about realizing that you are destined to be in a monastery or devoting your life to one, singular vocation or goal. Your purpose is not one job, it is not one relationship, it is not even one career field. Your purpose is, first and foremost, just to be here. Your existence has shifted the world in a way that it is invisible to you. Without you, absolutely nothing would exist just as it is right now. This is important to understand, because if you start believing that your whole purpose in being alive is just a job or a role you take on at home, what happens when you quit or retire, or the kids grow up and you’re no longer a parent? You’ll sink because you will falsely think that was your only reason for being.

Your purpose today may have been to offer someone a smile when they were at their lowest. Your purpose this decade may be the job you’re in. When you realize that you are literally always impacting the world around you, you start to realize something: the most important thing you can do to live meaningfully is to work on yourself. To consciously become the happiest, kindest and most gracious version of yourself. Knowing your purpose also doesn’t necessarily mean your life will thenceforth be easy, or that you’ll always know what to do. In fact, when you are genuinely on your own path, the future won't be clear, because if it is, you’re actually following someone else’s blueprint.

"Your life purpose is the point at which your skills, interests and the market intersect"

Here are some questions you should ask yourself if you want to know what your purpose really is:

What, and who, is worth suffering for?

Even doing what you love for a living doesn’t mean every day will be easy. Everything comes with its own unique set of challenges, so the question is really: what are you willing to work for? What are you willing to be uncomfortable for?

Close your eyes and imagine the best version of yourself. What is that person like?

The best possible version of yourself – the most loving, kind, productive and self-aware version – is who you really are. Everything else is the byproduct of coping mechanisms you’ve developed and picked up from other people.

If social media didn’t exist, what would you do with your life?

If you knew that you wouldn’t be able to show off, impress, or even share what it was you chose to do with your life, how would it change your ambitions? This differentiates what you are doing because you want to do it, and what you are doing for the sake of how it looks to other people.

What comes most naturally to you?

What you are most naturally good at is the path you should follow first, because it’s the path on which you will most effortlessly thrive.

What would your ideal daily routine look like?

Forget about the elevator speech. Forget about having a fancy title, or impressing people. Think about what you want to do day-in and day-out. A lot of people get into jobs they think will make them happy, but realize they only liked the idea of them and not the day-to-day reality.

What do you want your legacy to be?

Instead of worrying about the virtues on your resume, focus on the virtues of your eulogy. Who do you want to be remembered as? What do you want to be known for?

Are you doing what you are meant to do?