The Happier 20% People In The World Know Their Purpose In This Life
Answer there questions:
- Who are you?
- What do you do, What do you love to do, One thing you’re so good at so you can teach others??
- Who do you do it for?
- What do the people I do it for want?
- How will they change as a result?
OK let me begin by saying this post has a purpose and I’m going to explain it to you, but first I need to clarify some things. A few years ago I was a lazy teenager who spent his time; lying on the lounge, playing video games, either eating junk or not eating at all. I had a number of extremely embarrassing medical conditions and no social life outside the few friends I occasionally talked to in real life. If any of this sounds familiar then let me start off by telling you that there are thousands, even millions of people who are in the same situation, however not all of them are in the same mindset as you.
Many people continue their lives sitting on their ass, doing nothing, not enjoying life and are using video games, movies, books etc to either hide their insecurities or just escape from reality. Now don’t get me wrong, you are clearly an intelligent person if you are looking at content like this, there is clearly something inside you that wants to succeed or “Break free”.
For some the real reason they can’t find their purpose is fear. Now this could mean you are afraid of a few things: Failure, People not liking you, Dying alone, Being unhappy, Not earning enough money and many others. However the thing is all these fears have been brought on by one person in the past (No not the same person for all of them), these thoughts all began as one person saying them as a fact and everyone else believing him (or her).
They are all universal fears promoted by society and social media and are forced upon us at a young age, we are practically conditioned to fail. Some people like you and me however have the ability to break free of this conditioning, you are probably wondering how I know this and I’ll quickly explain how:
By forcing yourself through this paragraph it shows you are determined to find a way out of your current life and find your purpose, something that most people don’t have the mental strength to do.
Anyway back to the wall of text. Let me tell you a story about my good friend, for confidentiality sake he will be referred to as L. Now L was in a similar state to me, no confidence, little to no friends, unhappy with his appearance, thought no one will ever date him, heck he only had his first kiss this year. Now his biggest issue was he wasn’t confident in himself, he was afraid to show what he was passionate about because he didn’t want people judging him for it. One day I was at his house when he asked me “Hey J, how do you talk to people you’ve never met before like that, how are you so confident?” and that’s when it clicked in him, that’s when he began asking questions, he wanted to find happiness, so I helped him find it, some people’s passion is music or art, he was helping others, so I asked him.
“What makes you happy?”
As I expected he replied with helping others, I then asked him:
“Where do you feel in control the most?”
He replied with the same answer. I proceeded to ask him a line of questions such as:
“Where are you most comfortable?”
and
“What is success to you?”
He replied with a similar answer each time. I told him to picture himself helping someone each time he approaches them he said it sounded hard and that he was afraid something bad might happen, I then told him to tell me his life purpose, he immediately was confused as you probably are after reading this post, I repeated the question once again, He responded with “I don’t know, to be successful I guess?”
I said, “What’s your life goal? He told me to be rich, I asked him why, he said because it’s what makes you happy. He didn’t realize that he knew his purpose due to the fact that he was conditioned to be successful by everyone else standard, anyway he now has a beautiful girlfriend and is living in a small home living with his cat, to most this doesn’t sound like much but to him, life is perfect, he is happy and free he was able to break free of this ,conditioning,
Now, YOU need to be able to find what is holding you back, find the thing that is stopping you from finding happiness NOONE ELSE CAN DO THIS FOR YOU.
Usually its the fear of being judged,
The thing we fear being judged about the most is the thing that will make us the happiest. However to defeat this fear we must first find the thing we are most afraid of, being judged about the thing that will make us happy. And that is the purpose of this post: To find that thing. The thing that you are best at, the thing that will truly make you happy is the thing you are most afraid of publicly talking about, that one thing that you know you are great at deep down but are too afraid to follow.
The reason this post didn’t work is because you already know your purpose, you know how to make yourself happy, you know your purpose, you just need to get out there and chase it and don’t quit until you’ve caught it. If you made it this far you should pat yourself on the back, you persevered when most people wouldn’t have even clicked “read more”. You are one of the very few who are willing to do what it takes to be happy, to succeed.
I want you to do a small task, it will take less time than it does to finish a standard netflix episode:
Once every day I want you to either write down, or speak out loud the sentence:
My name is _____ and my purpose is _______. After that if you want you can practice the skills required to achieve this purpose.
Thank you for reading, good luck in all your future endeavors, I personally believe in you and you should too.
