What Is Life Purpose and Do I Have One?

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Jon Cordas, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.

What Is Life Purpose and Do I Have One?

What is life purpose?

Who am I and why am I here? We all sense that answers to these questions would have an immense impact on our lives. Many people don’t know how to get these answers. How would knowing the answer to these questions benefit your life? What is the cost in your life of not knowing who you are and why you’re here?

Essentially, purpose is the “why”, the reason you are on this planet. Sound important? It is. Aligning with who you are and why you’re here provides the most fulfilling, meaningful, and happy life possible. Not walking in integrity with these truths bears the fruit of drudgery, despair, confusion, and futility.

Imagine how deeply understanding your purpose, your “why” of existence, would impact your life choices of career, finances, relationships, and spiritual development.

Do I have a life purpose?

Yes, everyone has a life purpose which you can discover and explore. As you might realize, our society doesn’t equip us to find our purpose or align our life with it. We all need help, tools, and encouragement to make the journey.

Everyone is born with a life purpose, with particular missions and contributions to accomplish. Everyone is equipped from the moment of birth with a constellation of strengths, virtues, gifts, and talents specifically tailored for your unique meaningful mission.

While we need others to explore and live out our purpose, the journey of purpose exploration is inside you, inside your inner landscape. Most people have not ventured much there.

We come to understand our purpose when we connect with the Truth within ourselves. Do we all have this Truth? Yes, in a measure. The connection and relationship to our inner Truth can be strengthened.

This might sound a bit spiritual, and cause some to shy away. However, regardless of your personal beliefs or religious tradition, there are three simple truths that if embraced, will lead you into your Purpose:

1. You were born with a unique Purpose.
2. There is a part of you that already knows that Purpose.
3. You can communicate and learn from the part of you that knows your Purpose.

The part of you that knows your Purpose will guide you along your way with a deep resonance of Truth as you explore certain paths. While we are used to a “top down” life with the head in charge, your Purpose is held in darker, inaccessible internal regions of the heart. This inner place uses images and not words, so descriptions can be difficult. So what are some of the elements of Purpose and how they impact you?

Elements of Purpose

Your Purpose involves who you are and why you’re here. There are elements of Purpose which can be separately searched and have their own characteristics. Many of the names used here are used for a common reference. Feel free to use whatever words or names feel right to you.

Your True Self, called your Essence by some, came into being fully formed at the moment of birth. Some traditions call this your Soul. Whatever you call it, this part of you knows your Purpose and can reveal it to you and help you live it. After all, you are on this planet to live out your Purpose.

Your Gift, also called by some your Blessing, is the natural expression of your Essence. When you walk into a room, there is an effect. Your gifts impact the world without your trying.

Your mission, how you focus and live out your unique gifts to the world, is the most elusive aspect of Purpose….why you are here. Do we make up our own mission once we have an understanding of “who we are” and what gifts we offer the world? You certainly could make up a mission. The more in line with your Essence and Gifts, the more happy and fulfilled you will be.

However, there is a higher mission that we were created for. While we can use our Gifts and Nature to create a happy and prosperous life, the mission we are created for involves making a difference in the world and benefiting the lives of others. Our higher mission is higher than ourselves. Discovering and aligning with this Mission produces the greatest amount of joy and fulfillment.

Do I have more than one Purpose and does Purpose change over time?

You have only one Purpose and it doesn’t change throughout your life. That is, some of the elements mentioned above don’t change. Your Essence, the “who you are” never changes. Our understanding of it changes as we see our True Self in a richer and fuller way.

Likewise, our Gifts or Blessing, the expression of our Essence, never changes. We may also come to know and trust this in a deeper way. Think of Essence like a light always turned on, a unique frequency of sound, or a unique color only you bring to the world.

Missions change. Your “Destiny” usually involves walking through several missions, learning and growing as you go. You build capability and capacity, like going to the gym when you walk out a life mission in integrity with your True Self.

Missions come to an end. There is a natural cycle of starting and ending. When a life mission ends, a chapter in the book of your life is completed and there is a season of waiting and renewal between missions. Each mission must be discovered. During the “waiting” time of refocus and renewal, it is natural to be confused and a bit agitated. We want to go and do. But this transition time is a “being” space where we learn to connect with our inner Truth and Guidance in a deeper way.

How Do You Help Me Find My Purpose

Traveling the inner landscape requires a guide to see what we do not, to help us shift from our head to our heart. The source of purpose is a heart connection.

Everyone is unique and we need several paths of discovery to find the one that works for us. We will travel together along well-traveled trails using proven processes which provide insights and breakthroughs. Together we will clear inner obstacles and limiting barriers to progress. I have traveled these paths before you in my own life and helped others on their own unique journey. The most important thing to realize is that I am committed to your success, to supporting you when the path gets steep. I will help you connect to your inner inspiration, creativity, commitment, and resilience. I am committed helping you achieve the bottom line results that are important to you.

Are You Ready To Get Started?

Finding your purpose, like any expedition, requires action. It requires change, leaving the comfortable and conventional and leaving behind the mundane to discover the extraordinary.

Once you know your Purpose, action is also required to align your life with your inner Truth. It is possible to know your Purpose and do nothing with it. How miserable would that be?

So Purpose Hunting requires courage and a commitment to yourself to be all that you were created to be…to benefit the world in an extraordinary way, contributing as only you uniquely can.

To begin your Inner Expedition, visit our website at www.findingyourwhycoaching.com
or call our team today for a Purpose Coach who is a great fit for you at 940-783-7281.