Winner, are you hoping to learn how to live your purpose?
Great! You’ve come to the right post.
Because in this post, I’m about to share with you 10 incredible truths you need to know in order to begin living your purpose.
Even better: these truths are well within your reach. RIGHT NOW!
What does it mean to ‘live your purpose’?
It simply means to center your life around that which you’ve been called to contribute in your life.
In essence, to live your purpose is to attach a meaning to your life.
You start attaching significance to cultivating strong values that govern your life. (A DIY vision board can definitely help you with that!)
And now instead of trudging aimlessly through your life, you suddenly feel a strong sense of direction. With a tangible destination in your mind.
Now you’re in charge of the daily occurrences of your frugal lifestyle.
You respond more than you react to your life’s daily occurrences.
And guess what? Even your health gets better!
Harvard Health answers YES to the question: will a purpose-driven life help you live longer?
Vail Health also affirms living with purpose: a key to longevity.
You begin to feel like you’re in full control of your life.
And do you know what’s borne out of that shift?
You start being a victor in your life. And you stop being a victim.
What an empowered way to live, right?
(Read: 110 easy daily mantras you need in your life).
And who exactly needs to live their purpose?
Everyone (including you!)
Life has been dealt equally to each and everyone of us.
And contrary to what the world forces us to believe everyday, no human life is superior or inferior to another.
Additionally, greatness is borne within each and everyone of us.
And yes, that includes you!
Therefore; to live your purpose is about cultivating that greatness. Both for your own good AND for the good of others.
Winner, start becoming blind to how the world defines success.
Because success does not equate to the glitz and glamour of social media influencers and celebrities’ lives.
Rather, success equates to joy, contentment, peace, positivity, enthusiasm about life, altruism and intentionality, among many others.
And you can experience all those blessings in your daily mundane life if you live your purpose.
Now your mundane life feels better than all that glitz and glamour.
Because when you live your purpose, every day becomes your best day.
Read: How to build an abundance mindset (know 10 tips).
So, here’re:
10 truths you need to know in order to live your purpose
Truth #1: You don’t need money to live your purpose
You need to take money out of the equation at the very beginning.
So that you are clear about its bearing on living your purpose. Which is: absolutely zero bearing.
OK, I admit that the world today is designed in such a way that money has become a prerequisite for what should be free.
But even then, not having it doesn’t stand in the way of you living your purpose.
Because if you work from an abundance mindset, you know you have limitless resources at your disposal to change your life and the lives of those around you.
I tell you, Winner, this is one truth that COMPLETELY changed my life. And gave me the ultimate control. And satisfaction.
Because now whoever you are, wherever you are in the world, however rich or poor you think you are, know that you can still successfully live your purpose.
So Winner, internalize that.
Truth #2: You need to serve others more than you serve yourself
If you ask people around you what their life purposes are, you’ll likely get self-centered answers.
But your true life purpose is geared more toward others than toward you.
Which means, it seeks to create oneness with your world.
Think of our world as a machine. And each one of us as small individual parts of that machine.
And all parts make the machine work.
Now, not one part of the machine isn’t self-serving. On the contrary; it complements the other parts to make the machine run.
For a far greater good than self-edification.
Truth #3: Competing with others is an obstacle to living your purpose
Again, our world seeks to pit us up against each other.
It’s ‘who does it better?’ so much so that competition drives us in everything we do.
But you cannot compete with another person to live your life.
It’s a nonsensical notion that gets in the way of you living your life the meanginful way you should.
Furthermore, two people can seemingly have the same gift to offer to the world.
But even then, no two people can deliver something the exact same way.
Not necessarily that one is better than the other.
Because remember, it’s not a competition.
So then, focus on contributing to your world in your own unique way.
Truth #4: You need to be in harmony with the rest of creation
I touched on this in the previous truth: eliminating the need to compete with others.
But here, I’m also talking about nature.
Nature has laws that you must obey.
If your true purpose goes against those laws, then it’s inaccurate.
For example: if your true purpose regards flying like a bird, then it’s not accurate because human beings are not physically designed to fly.
So, align your purpose with the natural workings of creation, and you’ll win.
Truth #5: You can live your purpose at any age
Don’t you ever envy those little boys and girls who at 4 years old, can already tell you what they want to become when they grow up?
Or that college student who’s so passionate about their major that they believe they were born to do that specific thing?
Well, I went aimlessly through university envying those kinds of students.
But I shouldn’t have. The same way you shouldn’t be jealous of those who’ve already discovered their life purposes.
Know that there’s no deadline to discovering that which you were meant to be.
And that long as you’re alive, you have time.
Whether it’s at 10 years old or at 90 years old, the earliness or lateness of your discovery doesn’t take anything from the essence of that discovery.
Truth #6: Gifts and talents are not the whole story
Here in my part of the world, my fellow Africans in many parts of the continent are running for their lives in the midst of unrests and hunger.
And that means, many don’t have the time to sit leisurely and identify their gifts and talents.
But what does that mean?
Does the absence of gifts and talents make them less important than those people who’ve already discovered their gifts and talents?
No, their lives are equally important.
But let’s say you do have the luxury of searching for what you’re good at.
And yet you still haven’t discovered it.
That doesn’t mean you should live your life waiting until you discover it.
No, discovering your true purpose requires that you start serving others now with whatever goodness is in you.
Gifts and talents only work as far as making it easier for you to deliver yourself to the world.
Perhaps even in a way that you enjoy.
But the absence of gifts and talents in no way, hinders you from serving others.
The funny irony is that, it’s when you selflessly pour yourself put to others that you stumble upon your own gifts and talents.
Truth #7: You cannot live your purpose outside of gratitude
If you go around feeling entitled, like somehow the world owes you something, then you’ve become a victim of your own life.
Bad situations that happen to you shouldn’t steal your gratitude.
Because as long as they leave you still standing, you’re above them.
Be grateful for your life, just as it is right now. No matter what you have. Or how little of it you have.
Truth #8: Joy is more important that happiness when you live your purpose
People often speak of joy and happiness interchangeably as if the two are the same. But they’re not.
You derive happiness from external factors.
For example; getting a promotion at work can make you happy.
On the contrary, you derive joy from within.
More specifically, joy is based on what you know, independent of your external environment.
For example, you can get a cancer diagnosis, and yet maintain positivity because you know you’re above every sickness and disease.
Likewise, you can maintain positivity through the death of a loved one, because you know that you’ve been given power over death.
Truth #9: The tools to discover your purpose in life are available now
Not tomorrow. Not later today. But this very moment.
Like I mentioned in Truth #1: You don’t need to have money to discover what you were meant to do.
If it’s not free, if it’s not available now, then it means it’s an unfair advantage only given to some people and denied others.
And that’s not how life is. Life has been dealt equally to each and everyone who’s alive at this very moment.
Life is available right now for you too. And you lack nothing.
Truth #10: Live your purpose without expecting to be thanked
I was once almost thrown out of the house by a host family for not saying ‘thank you for taking care of me when I was sick.’
And I think back to that moment and wish I’d said ‘thank you’. Because I was truly grateful. Though I failed to voice that.
I can understand. Because I’ve been on the receiving end of the ‘no thank you.’
And it truly can be disheratening.
Having said that, if you’re serving people, expecting to be thanked, then you could be in for a long wait.
Because some people never say ‘thank you.’
And waiting for them to, can leave you feeling bitter and unappreciated.
Winner, commit to living your purpose to bless others, whether or not they thank you.
Instead, take comfort in knowing that the universe recognizes your goodness. And that you’ll be paid back for it in due time.
Summary
Living your purpose can help you live meaningfully. And claim full control of your life. Whatever your life circumstances, you do have a purpose. And you should cultivate it for yourself and for the good of those around you.
I hope our 10 truths will inspire you to finally live your purpose.
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