Finding your life purpose can be a most difficult task.

You have to dig through so many layers of emotions. There are layers of experiences, failures and rejections that will make it difficult for you to work out what your life purpose is. It might take hard work exploring your subconscious and many attempts. But the payoff could be a wonderful change to your life.

Don’t anticipate that it will be easy to find your life purpose

It’s not easy work looking for your life purpose. It’s easy once you have found it because it will resonate with you. You will have the proverbial “aha” moment. But getting there requires a lot of patience and a willingness to dig into the archives of your mind to see what you discover.

Just because you haven’t worked out your life’s purpose up to now doesn’t mean that you have wasted your life or that you have been unsuccessful as a person. Everything is part of the palette of experiences that you want to acquire.

But, if you do find your life’s purpose you will find your mood lift, your energy increase, your well-being and health improve and in general you will enjoy life more. It doesn’t mean that you won’t have set-backs or problems anymore. It just means you will have more energy to resolve them with.

So how does one go about finding out what it takes to get on purpose?

It’s probably going to take quite a bit of effort to fight your way through all of the preconditioning you have taken onboard.  There are many reasons why you might find your purpose difficult to work out. Your parents might have taught you to be cautious and safe in your choices. Your teachers at school might not have recognized your true passion and directed you to something that wasn’t for you. You could even think that you yourself are not worth spending time on.

Whatever the blocks that you might be facing, take courage and start digging. The pay-off will be worth it. Find what will make you jump out of bed in the mornings, make you forget the time as you enjoy living with passion and captivate all who listen to you as you enthusiastically talk about your life’s purpose.

Where to start with this huge project?

Probably your first and most wise step to take would be to involve a good friend or a personal coach in this exercise. But do try and find a coach who doesn’t tell you what to do. After all, you’ve been told what to do all your life which is why you never found your life purpose in the first place.

Don’t make that mistake again.

All you want is somebody who will keep you focused on the main prize. Someone who will continue to ask whether this is truly what you would like to do. Is this what you can see yourself being passionate about? Could this be the direction you want to take? Would this choice make you happy? These are some of the questions that should be answered, especially if you think you might have stumbled upon your life’s purpose.

But how do you start?

Start by asking the plain and simple question: what would you like in life? Don’t worry if you get a list of things such as a sports car, a better job, more money, be happy, a life partner, a soul mate and much more getting onto that list first. Continue with the questions for as long as it takes.

Eventually some more serious stuff will surface. You will note that when you say something like, “I would like to create art that will make people happy when they look at it” that you could get a tingling down your spine. Or you might be able to relate to, “I would like to overcome my physical limitations so that I can inspire other people to overcome theirs”.

Think back on times in your life when you were really happy, where the days went by far too quickly, when you laughed all the time, when you smiled a lot and when nothing was a problem. What were you doing then? Could that be what is your life’s purpose?

It’s worth exploring.