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Radically upgrade your life from "just getting by" to "feeling like a super-star."
By Kate Siner — Written on Jun 22, 2017
While finding your life's purpose may not be a panacea for all of your problems, there are 4 giant ways your life can change when you find your purpose and start to live by it. These shifts can radically upgrade your life from "just getting by" to "feeling like a superstar".
Finding your life's purpose means that you feel good with the way that you are situated in the world and your actions in it have a sense of meaning to you. It does not mean that you have suddenly discovered that you are going to be the person to cure cancer (although that is a possibility).
Our purpose is, more often than not, not one act or one career, but a greater sense that our inside self and our outer life are in alignment.
No matter who you are and how skeptical you might be that your life has a purpose, I can assure you that you have one. It may not be quite as you imagined it, but it is there. As you identify your life's purpose and get more on track with living it, you will see radical changes in how you feel on a regular basis.
We get a lot closer to living our purpose when we stop thinking and start feeling. Step out of your head and stop trying to construct what your life's purpose looks like.
Instead, start feeling what feels good to you. These are the breadcrumbs that lead us to our purpose. The things that feel good to you are the components of your life purpose. This is how you find your life's purpose.
As you claim them, little by little, your purpose begins to take shape. When it does, you will notice seismic shifts in your life:
1. You become more engaged.
When you find your purpose and start living it, you start feeling more engaged in your life. While some things may no longer interest you, the things that are in alignment with your purpose will become that much more dynamic.
It will feel like you just woke up and there is a party going on that you didn’t even notice was there. If you used to wait to do things, you may find that you are now first in line. If you used to let others answer the questions, you may find yourself center stage with a host of answers.
2. You have more energy.
As a result of living your life's purpose, you will feel much more energized. It will be easier to get up in the morning. You will find yourself looking forward to what you have to do and, at the end of the day, you will be less likely to crash yourself down in front of the TV or whatever numbing agent of choice you like to use.
You will find that you have more energy to do more things in your area of interest. You will also be able to make more happen each day with seemingly less effort.
3. You find more opportunity.
Living your life's purpose shifts the way you look at the world. It no longer seems like your goals are impossibly out of reach. Instead, you will begin to experience synchronicity that connects you with what you need to get the job done.
As you continue to move in the direction of your life's purpose, you may even start to see that the obstacles that you do encounter are more like markers guiding you in the right direction.
4. You feel more fulfilled.
Even if you are living your life purpose, you will still notice that there are times that are challenging. The ups and downs of life do not go away just because you started living your life's purpose.
However, you notice that even when times are tough, you feel more satisfied overall with your life. When times are good, you will also benefit from a deeper, more fulfilling satisfaction than when you were not living your life's purpose.
Think about what your life would be like if you felt fully engaged and energized, if you saw it as full of opportunity, and if you felt a deep sense of fulfillment, regardless of whether your day-to-day went well or not.
The giant changes in the way you experience your life are worth cashing in on through a little investigation of your life purpose.
This article was originally published at Dr. Kate Siner. Reprinted with permission from the author.