Finding Your Life Purpose

Have you ever considered what your life purpose is?

For some, they see their life purpose as to get up in the morning – run their business – pay the bills – enjoy what their doing, their hobbies, their sports, and their family – and then go back to bed. Only to get up the next day and do it all over again.

Day after day – doing the same thing – pretty much in a routine – work, play, rest.

And even if you don’t seek out a purpose for your life, can you imagine what your life could be like if you did have a higher purpose? A purpose much greater than yourself.

Then there are others that something shows up in their life, that triggers them to think – well what am I doing with my life? Where am I going? What’s the point of what I’m doing? There has to be more to this than just work, rest, and play – right?

That’s when they’ve hit the critical threshold line that I spoke about in a previous blog.

They often get consumed by work, but then contemplate life’s bigger questions. What is the meaning of life? What is my purpose here?

And for them, they search for what is going to bring them meaning in their life, purpose in their life – to find out what the big grand plan is for their life.

And this search can take years, a lot of navel gazing, and a lot of expense in books, courses, guides….or traveling to remote places to “find themselves”.

But even after doing all that they still come back to the same question – what is my life purpose?

What am I to do with my life?

If I only have one life, I should make it count. I should make it matter.

For many, it’s about a desire to make a difference and leave a legacy – but ultimately, this leads to an inner desire to be remembered. We want people to remember us even after we’re gone. They won’t forget that we existed. That we meant something while we were living. That we won’t be forgotten.

And typically we’ll look to people that we do remember in our lifetimes. We normally start with well-known people like Martin Luther King and his I Have a Dream speech. Or the Wright Brothers that flew across the Atlantic and landed in a small village called Clifden. Or Nelson Mandela for his resolve, his transformation, and his way of being after he had been imprisoned for 27 years.

There are so many that we look up to as leaders and as people who have made a difference – both young and old – both male and female.

We still remember them. They’ve left a legacy. They’ve made their mark on the world. There’s still a part of them that is still here.

We might then be drawn to the people who have been closer to our own lives – they could have been a grandparent, a parent, a sibling, a friend, a boss, or a stranger. They may have said or done something that changed the course of our lives for the better. We still remember that moment and its impact. We can still bring to mind where it was, what it said, who was there, how it took place, and more importantly how it made us feel inside.

They made a difference in our lives. They had an impact. We still remember them. They left a legacy.

It doesn’t matter how large or small the impact is. What matters is that we made a difference. We touched lives, and that’s what counts.

That we took the time out to make that difference. And that we decided that that’s what our life is about. That we intended to make a difference for someone else – to make their lives better in some way.

One of my mentors told me a story.

Imagine for a moment a picture made with mosaic tiles, a spectacular picture with hundreds of pieces, of all shapes, colours, and sizes. Together, they make up the most amazing picture. As a complete picture, it’s beautiful and whole. But you then notice that one of the pieces is loose. So you go over and you take that piece away.

Now imagine the picture. It’s not so beautiful anymore, is it? You can see the space left behind by that one missing mosaic tile. The overall picture doesn’t quite look right and the colours don’t seem to be as radiant and vibrant anymore. It’s just not the same amazing picture as it was before when all the pieces were there in their correct place. Even though it was a tiny piece that you removed, it has a dramatic effect on the beauty of the picture.

You have a big impact on the people you meet and interact with, even though you might not even see it at the time. Those small acts that you take for granted become tidal waves in this big amazing world of ours. Just like the missing mosaic tile, if you don’t play your part in the world, it won’t look as amazing as it could be.

So if we are all part of a bigger plan and journey, and we have a part to play in this world, how do we find out what that plan is? How do we find our purpose in what we are doing with our lives? How do we bring meaning and fulfillment to our lives?

Victor Frankl as you might know is a person who survived the concentration camp when many others around him didn’t. And in his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, he refers to the fact that it’s the meaning we give things in life, that gives us meaning in our life.

Others speak about how you must first find your why – why you’re doing what you’re doing. And that if you find your why, then everything will transform from there.

While others talk about finding your passion, and this will lead to your life purpose.

Some say there is no purpose to find!

Honestly, none of these worked for me. And they didn’t work for my clients either.

Ultimately what can be interpreted is that if we give enough meaning to something, then we can make anything our purpose.

Having a clear, meaningful purpose drives us. It compels us to take action and makes a real difference. This purpose answers a fundamental question.

When it came to Edison – his overriding question was to find out how to use electrical current to bring light. The Wright brothers’ overriding question was to find out how to fly. Martin Luther King’s overriding question was how to have blacks treated no differently than whites. Victor Frankl sought to answer what could give someone such focus that everything else felt meaningless. He believed this focus could drive a person to keep living.

You see we all have an overriding question to be fulfilled within ourselves. But we then go about looking for the answer to the wrong question.

We look for the answer to the question of what is our life purpose – when in fact we don’t spend time to realise that there are other questions that we’re trying to find the answer to. That inwardly we’re driven to find the answer. When we find the answer, will then make a difference for others.

Ultimately your overarching purpose in life is to be you, to experience, to live life fully, to love, to evolve.

That’s it.

Yet every word that I just said, has a much more deeper meaning than at first glance.

Our purpose in life is to be you, your unique you. To experience fully, to live life fully, and to love and to evolve.

I’m likely to come back to these and what they fully mean in later blogs – as they are such critical messages.

Other than that, while others don’t believe we have a defined life purpose, I believe that we do have a life purpose. We have a mission to fulfill. And one that drives us forward to achieve it and one that brings maximum meaning and fulfillment to our lives.

How do I know?

Well, in the second blog, I mentioned that I was the seventh son to be born in my family.

But let me reveal a bit more about myself which becomes relevant to when we’re talking about our purpose in life.

Yes, I was the seventh son to be born in my family. But I’m also the seventh son of the seventh child, which was also the seventh child.

Now in Ireland, there is a lot of mythology around the seventh son regarding healing abilities and the like. But let me tell you some of how it is expressed for me.

There are two main things – since I was as young as I can remember, I have what I call knowings or downloads. And second I was able to pick up empathically what an individual was feeling deep inside themselves.

It’s these knowings and empathic feelings that gave rise to some of the causes of my depression and suicidal ideation. Not all of it, but some of it.

Now how this worked in my favour was that while others referred to me as being lucky and successful, I knew differently.

It has been the reason why I’ve had such a success rate in turning companies around. I’ve turned around every company I’ve worked with.

But more importantly, when I work with clients, I get, again what I refer to as knowings and downloads for my clients. Not all the time and not for every client, but for the majority.

These downloads give me the information and the images of what is needed for my clients to be on their right path. To be on their life purpose.

The images I get of what they’re meant to do in terms of the impact and what their life is to look like are mind-blowing. What I mean by that, is that they are so amazing.

And each time I get my clients on the right path, the results that they get and the difference it makes for them personally are amazing.

And there have been some clients that didn’t take on board the information I shared with them, and that’s ok because that’s where free will comes into play.

But in the early years – I had to keep all of this a secret. After all, it’s not something a client expects from a business consultant.

Being so highly intuitive has made it open to so much ridicule. And that coupled with the empathetic feelings I was picking up – was leading to a very unpleasant life.

And when I did describe the images that I received in the downloads and knowings to my clients:

• Because they were so amazing in terms of the difference I was seeing them making in the world.
• Their first response was that they didn’t have the confidence or the courage to do that.

So I had to learn a different way of communicating with my clients to make sure they were put on the right track for them, and also so that they wouldn’t get scared.

And on top of that, I doubted myself so much as I questioned if was it just my conscious mind making it up.

Over the years, I’ve researched ways to help people find evidence in their lives. This evidence provides the insights they need to discover their true life purpose.

They might not see the end outcome or the significant difference they are to make in people’s lives, but at least they would be on the right track.

If I found the evidence, it became breadcrumbs for them. These breadcrumbs helped guide them back home—home to where they’re meant to be in life, on the right track, living their purpose.

So what is it that brings meaning and fulfillment?

Well, let’s begin with meaning.

You see, teleology is the study of purpose and meaning.

The highest purpose is what the Greek philosophers referred to as the Telos or the “end in mind”. Or what I call your North Star.

This Telos or North Star is what you are most inspired to fulfill.

Napoleon Hill called your highest priority ‘your chief aim in life’.

So whatever your highest internal priority is, you are inspired from within to fulfill it. You are unconsciously driven to fulfill the most.

I spoke about your highest internal priorities in the previous blog. These internal priorities are unique to you.

When you marry your highest internal priorities with the overriding question you are seeking to fulfill, then you have your link, your connection to your life purpose. It’s how you achieve maximum fulfillment in life.

Let me say that again – your highest internal priorities are what you are most inspired to fulfill within. The overriding question that you seek to fulfill the answer to, is your connection to becoming and fulfilling your life purpose.

When you are doing work that is in line with fulfilling that overriding question, and that is in line with your highest internal priorities, then you are most inspired to accomplish your mission. It is where you achieve maximum fulfillment. It becomes your mission in life to fulfill.

As I said in the previous blog, when you are working in line with your internal priorities, then you are activating your executive center the most.

Thus, when you are activating your executive center the most – you are more creative, more innovative, more motivated, and more objective. Aligning with your unconscious and SuperConscious inspires you to discover the quickest, easiest, and most cost-effective path to your purpose.

Turning your life purpose into your career or business lets you build a legacy and make a meaningful impact on others’ lives.

If we take Bill Gates as an example – his overriding question was how could he put the power of a computer into the hands of everyone around the world. His purpose and vision was to see a computer in every home.

Steve Jobs’s overriding question was how could he enable every person to display and demonstrate their unique personality. His purpose was to break the norm and challenge the status quo. He aimed to empower people, whether through their computers, iPods, or iPhones.

Discover your unique priorities and the key questions you seek to fulfill. This will guide you toward your true purpose and mission.