Many self-help books encourage you to work out what your life purpose statement is. But if you are like most of the people who are trying to work out their life purpose, you will be stuck for words and ideas.

What blocks you from being able to work out what you really want to do?

Why does your life purpose escape you?

Where have all your dreams and passions gone?

These questions are very difficult to answer. You will find that digging deep into yourself to try and work out why you a missing the spark and how to rekindle it again is almost impossible.

What it requires to find your personal life purpose is to scratch your way through all of the layers of pre-conditioning you have acquired through many years to see what is going on inside of you.

Many people live their lives just making do, never finding that passion. With this comes a constant sense of dissatisfaction or discontent. You always feel as if you are missing out on something, that life is drifting past without having achieved anything.

That feeling stems from inside of you where your inner self keeps on saying that what you are doing is not what your life purpose is. Many people never find it and spend their life with a nagging feeling that they are missing something.

Most often people who have this sense of missing something spend their time trying to fill that void with other things. You have probably experienced this yourself. You spend your money on buying new clothes, cars or homes in the hope that it will make you feel good.

It does feel good to drive that new car or move into a lovely home, but the happy feeling is always short lived. It never lasts because it doesn’t address the underlying feelings of unease that you have.

You might find yourself drifting from one relationship to another, hoping to discover in the new partnership a feeling of completeness that you know is out there somewhere but that you are just not able to find.

If all those lovely new things don’t make you happy for long and your relationships are not fulfilling you perhaps it’s time to start thinking about what your life purpose statement is. Finding that and aligning yourself to this purpose could be what you have been looking for for so long.

You would not be the only one looking for this answer. In recent years the number of best-selling books that deal with self-help and personal growth issues have grown into an avalanche. The popularity of the “The Secret” video stunned even the people who produced it.

It seems that people are waking up to the fact that they are not following their life purpose and in fact have no idea what that could be. Many people end up thinking that the problem is that they are not good enough, that they need to improve themselves.

They think that if they work hard enough on the self-improvement angle then they will feel better about themselves and the lives they lead. Is that the answer? Surely not. 

The self-improvement work is just another misleading direction to take. Finding the life purpose and following it is a better way of finding that inner happiness and contentment.

How do you know if you are not “On Purpose”?