As I was writing yesterday in “Raising the big questions” I wanted to ask Steve Pavlina more about his concepts on purpose, how these purposes are set in real terms - short: get an example and more story about this. Thanks to Steve’s full-text RSS-Feed I have found more than I asked for. For those who do not know I am offline during the weekends as I do not have internet at home (nor a land line telephone), so I rely on News-feeds downloaded before the weekends - which are also used to keep up with my subscribed feeds and webpages that are dropped into my DevonThink inbox.
Steve wrote the article “How to discover your life’s purpose in about 20 minutes describing a method that clears your mind of all external ideas, values and hopefully comes up with a true answer coming from your deepest inside. An answer whose truth you will feel instantly. Steve writes:
Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.
I have not done the task yet - maybe because I am afraid? My rationale would be “I do not have the time to do se now - maybe tomorrow” which in part is true - as I am currently in the process of writing this article as well as in the need to get ready for tonight’s tango fusion party. But you know how these things are… there usually is no “I do not have the time” but more a “I do not want to take the time”. Whatever. I will do the exercise - it is a logical conclusion of my inner needs and drives that have taken control at times these last months. Part of these was my adoption of “Getting Things Done” Methodology, as well as the discovery of Steve’s blog - making me think and question as well as curious.
Of course, the pure idea of having a purpose has never been strange to me, nor have certain ideas I have had in the past years about this purpose - my purpose - but never been really that convincing - many ideas have seemed to be too simple (can this really be it?) or too far off that they sounded true but also so in-concrete as that I would not really see how that idea, that purpose would really work. My past attitude towards this has always been a trust in life that things will work out as they will as well as that these “ideas” that I have will eventually make themselves more clear to me as they start to come into my life. But then there is this time now, the last year of my 4th septade, my 28th year on this planet and I somehow have the feeling I will need to know what I really want to do this year as it will be a good place to start in the right direction rather than following down a road I don’t really want to go - just because it is so easy and obvious to follow it. Yes, I will finish my PhD-Thesis sometime this year, probably not before November, maybe before April 2006 - but that is about the time I have set for it as well as a good reason to figure out what to do then - where to go next and what I really want to do. Yes, of course there are many options, many that I could easily master - many challenges, quests and possibilities - and also many places I can already see I would be selling part of my soul if I would go there without knowing why. Without staying sane in the process and not getting sucked into the “career path” that we all seem to follow, that the “system” offers.
Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.
were Steves last words on his purpose, a truly noble and true statement that makes me think I may lie on similar terms - but the sentence does not ring any bells inside me - which would be expected as it is not my statement - but this also necessitates spending the time to find my own mission statement, my own purpose in life.
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