What’s your Purpose and How to Find Your Purpose in Life?

Defining Your Purpose, The importance of finding meaning in lifeWhat Is Life Purpose?

One of the great distinctions that has come out of examining our Purpose, for me, has been the awareness that I have some definite core qualities that emanate into whatever I do. What I do may change, where I go always changes, but who I am on a fundamental level doesn’t change; it only ripens.

So at my core, there is what I’m passionate about, which is love. And into all the contexts of my life I carry that love. It may manifest itself through a client conversation one moment, writing an article the next, and creating a workshop the next — but it’s still love that’s being carried through it all, along with my other “secondary” passions, such as transformation and wisdom.

Imagine my delight, then, when I come across David Armano’s article, “T-Shaped + Sun-Shaped People,” where he talks about having core passions that form the basis of who we are and what we do. He says:

If you were to ask me what my “passion is”—I would probably say that at the core, it’s creative problem solving. This is pretty broad and incorporates a lot of disciplines that can relate to it. But that’s the point. What if we start with our passions regardless of discipline, and look at the skills which radiate out from it the same way we think about how rays from the sun radiate warmth?

Does this make us “Sun-shaped people”?

It just makes perfect sense, that we are changeable and flexible, depending on our circumstances, but we each have certain core strengths that are just naturally a part of our ways of being.

The clearer you can be about your core passions and essential qualities, the clearer you can be about everything that follows — which is everything! Marketing, sales, strategy, customer service, you name it; the clarity and certainty you have as you go about your work is a direct by-product of your “Sun-shaped” clarity.

So the question is, what is your Purpose/Passion? What’s at the center of your sun? Do you know what your dominant “rays” are?

Read:

• Find Your Purpose in Life – The Center Of Life – archely
• Keys To Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose, Become A Powerhouse Of Possibility – archely
• Why Your Written Life Vision Is Non-Negotiable – archely