Tips for Finding Purpose
Individuals with a lifelong sense of purpose and direction have goals and milestones to drive them. They are clear about what they value, what’s important, and what gives them energy. We will help you find and follow your purpose. Try these tips as you get started:
- Create routines. Approached in the right frame of mind, routines can be comforting, even meditative. Try following the same simple steps when you wake and get ready for your day. Or, develop a gentle, reflective winding-down routine for the evenings. Routines can simplify your life and create more time and energy for your purpose.
- Make time for the outdoors. We spend so much time inside for work, school, and housekeeping. Why not dedicate some time to reconnecting with nature? This is another simple way to clear your head and better sense your purpose and intentions.
- Get spiritual. Look beyond objects and sensory pleasures, which are fine in moderation but bring only temporary happiness. Focus on spiritual concepts such as generosity, kindness, empathy, and gratitude.
How can you share your energies with other people and bring more to their lives?
Try this exercise with those close to you (your partner, children, or co-workers) and in the community at large.
- Take up a hobby or sport, or find purpose in rediscovering a favorite pastime. This is a great way to combine exercise with goal-setting and community participation. Team sports or hobbies (think bridge club, a walking group, or a gardening club) will get you moving and connecting.
- Turn inward. Meditation can help you learn how to be in the moment, aware of all that you embody and offer. What conditioned behaviors are you ready to give up? When we connect well with ourselves, we can better connect with others.
- Turn outward.Through serving others, we enhance our own health and well-being. Focus on serving members of your own family or neighborhood. Or, volunteer through a structured program. Find a cause you believe in and give your time and knowledge, such as…
- tutoring
- feeding the hungry
- beautifying the neighborhood in which you live.
- volunteering brings richness to daily life for many people, helping them feel useful and connected.
No matter how you define your own sense of purpose, your can strengthen your consciousness through concrete actions and decisions—and it’s never too late to get started.
Foster your own purpose
It’s never too late to get started nurturing your own sense of purpose. You’ll gain the knowledge, peace, and even excitement that comes with knowing the day’s efforts and interactions contribute to larger goals and intentions.
Remember, you can bring focus to your sense of purpose right now by becoming a member of our community. Everything you accomplish here does good work for others. You’ll increase your chances at a longer, more healthful life—and help other members of the community do the same.
Life without larger meaning is dreary at best. There are no boundaries to how much good you can accomplish though purposeful living—for yourself, your family and friends, and the universe at large.
