how do you find your purpose?
“How do I find my purpose?!?”
I’m picturing all of us running around, looking under couch cushions, checking the countertops, searching for our purpose like it’s a pair of lost keys.
That was my vibe for about a decade. Searching everywhere for where I’d left my purpose. I read all the self-help books on the subject, took a bajillion online quizzes, talked to psychics, and raged at God to tell me the answer.
Eventually I gave up. Resigned. Figured I would never find work I loved. Thought my purpose was an enigma wrapped in a riddle that I would never be able to solve.
But then I fell in love! And just as I started to convince myself that maybe my purpose was to marry my boyfriend…WHAM, he disagreed and broke up with me.
It floored me. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Because it woke me up out of autopilot. It motivated me to finally figure the EFF out what I was meant to do with my life.
The search for my purpose would look different this time. Instead of looking “out there” to the books and tests and other people, I looked within. Because that’s where it had been all along.
But knowing where to look doesn’t mean that it’s easy. It takes more strength and courage to journey within than to let someone outside you hand you an answer (which won’t be YOUR answer anyways).
If your purpose lives at the heart of you, getting there can feel like a herculean adventure. You will meet the parts of you that are afraid of your parents’ disappointment. The parts of you that are hard to look at (only at first). The parts that are afraid of what other people will think. The parts that don’t believe you can do it.
What helped me was having a guide and the tools to navigate my inner world & inner obstacles.
Which describes coaching. Which is my purpose! Or, one of my main purposes in life (because I believe we have multiple “purposes” that arise out of our true nature).
I’ve learned there are 3 main things you need to find your purpose:
Your Authentic Self
Tools to heal your inner world & shift your mindset
Aligned Action to take your purpose from a vision to your reality
Those are the 3 main pillars I take clients through to help them reconnect with their true selves and discover the life they are meant to live – and then we go about building that life.
If you’re interested in taking the journey within to your purpose, respond to this email to talk to me about my 6-month coaching program where we reconnect you to your authentic self, heal your inner world, and identify the aligned action steps that will have you living your purpose and most meaningful life.
Love,
Jessica
