Do you feel like you are stuck? Do you feel like there you have no direction, no purpose? Would you like to discover your purpose in life? If you take the time, finding your purpose in life is not at all that hard. First you have to understand why you are where you are now [...]
Do you feel like you are stuck? Do you feel like there you have no direction, no purpose? Would you like to discover your purpose in life? If you take the time, finding your purpose in life is not at all that hard. First you have to understand why you are where you are now and then decide where you want to be. It’s that easy.
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. Most often, one event or action in your life leads to another. If you are moving in the direction of your purpose in life then you’ll continue to move in that direction, but if you’re moving away then you’ll continue to move away.
For example: A few years ago I was working for a large corporation. The job wasn’t bad it was clean, indoors and had great health benefits. I was in the business of convincing people that they needed services that they may not have needed. Before that I had been teaching martial arts and helping people develop physically, mentally and spiritually. When I was teaching I liked what I as doing, was excited about my life and about my future. In the corporate world my job was so stressful that it was actually causing my weight to shift up and my hair (what little I had) to fall out and turn grey.
Finding Your Life’s Passion
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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin According to a Native American legend, as the world was being made the spirits of the world needed to decide where to hide the secret of happiness. They [...]
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin
According to a Native American legend, as the world was being made the spirits of the world needed to decide where to hide the secret of happiness. They decided that real happiness was kept in man’s purpose. But where could they hide man’s purpose where he would never find it?
At first they discussed the matter excitedly but soon they were silent. None of them could figure out where to hide the secret. After a while the spirit of the forest exclaimed, “I know where we can hide the secret! We can take it to the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean. Man will never find it there!”
The spirits discussed this proposal for a short while until the spirit of the water said, “Man is already diving deep into the water using ships called submarines. No, that wouldn’t be a very good idea at all.”
The spirits, chagrined, sat down to think some more when the spirit of the mountain stood up and exclaimed, “I know! We can take the secret to the top of the highest mountain peak and bury it in the ground. No man will find it there!”
The spirits talked about this new proposal. Finally the spirit of the clouds said, “We know that man is already climbing to the top of many high mountains. In fact he has machines that can fly and even hover and land on the highest peak. It won’t be long before man will find the secret.”
Discouraged the spirits all sat down quietly again. Suddenly the spirit of the wind stood up. Excitedly she exclaimed, “I’ve got it!”
All the spirits looked at the usually quiet spirit with great surprise, waiting for the spirit to share her idea.
“It’s really quite simple,” continued the spirit. We’ll hide man’s purpose inside of him. He’ll never look there!”
So it is. It’s what everyone searches for. They look for purpose and happiness in the new car, the new relationship, the new job. They search for a purpose for their lives outside of themselves, everywhere except the obvious place, within. But for those who take the time to search, to look within, it is there, what we all want, a purpose in our lives. That’s real happiness.
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