Tip #2-Discover Your Core Values
"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose." - Edward de Bono
Defining your values give you purpose. When you have not clearly defined your values, you end up making bad decisions and drifting down the wrong paths.
So many of us base our decisions on outside social influences that we don’t even recognize, instead of tapping into our internal guidance system. Most of us are walking around like zombies actually thinking we are living our lives on purpose when we are just living them all for someone else’s purpose! Before you know it you have no idea how you got here.
Living other people’s purpose and not knowing your own reason for being here is simply a shame and leaves you feeling empty and hopeless. I want to change that for you by suggesting this tip on living life by your three main Core Values. This will organically allow you to discover your purpose and fill your life with joy!
Ask your self some of these questions, write down as many core values that come up, Then weed out the ones that are least important leaving the three most valuable that become non negotiable with every decision you make!
• What is most important to you? For example: Health, Freedom, Fun, Stability..
• What quality do you most admire in a person you think very highly of? For Example: Driven, Innovative, Risky, smart, unique..
• What quality do you most admire in yourself? For Example: Loving, Caring, Empathetic, excitable, authentic, Intelligent…
Tip #3- Ask Your self these Thought Provoking Questions:
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” - Gautama Buddha
• Why am I here?
• What is my mission?
• What gets me really excited when I think about it?
• What makes me smile?
• What causes do you passionately believe in?
• What am I really good at, so good I don’t even have to think about it?
• What do people come to you for help with?
• Given your Core Values you came up with, how could you use these resources to serve and help others?
After you have worked on these three tips you should have a solid idea of what Your Purpose is. These are tips to use again and again; you change as you go through life. Always be willing to relook at Your Purpose and be willing to carve your marble sculptor even better as time goes by.
As you grow and become more Self Empowered by Discovering Your Purpose, you organically shift from the deeper knowledge that is gained through your wisdom. You must realign with this new wisdom integrating it into your Purpose.
Just as so many of us make decisions based on other people’s purposes, you may find yourself locked into your own original discovery of Purpose. Be open to shifting, just like I suggest when setting goals, set them, but always realign, as you get closer.
The same goes for Your Purpose. You must be open to redefining as you grow!
